I just signed up for my first triathlon! I'm both excited and nervous. Its a 500m pool swim, 20k bike, and 5k run on July 15. The bike is no problem, the run I can do, but I'd like to be able to finish strong, not be dragging myself across the finish line. The swim is what makes me nervous. I started swimming a few months ago, but I was really struggling with my technique. DH was trying to learn the Total Immersion method, and after reading up on it I decided to learn it to. I'm almost at the point of whole stroke swimming, but still doing drills. It's going well, I seem to be picking it up easily, I'm just anxious to get to actually swimming so I can start building distance. I should have my whole stroke down in 2 weeks, then I have 10 weeks to work on distance. I'm really glad its only 500m. I don't even think I'm going to set a time goal for this race. I just want to finish and have fun.