I know it is still early, but I'm already feeling like there is no hope I'll be well enough trained. I'm doing a sprint tri (300m swim, 10m bike, 3m run) on Oct 10th.

I'm a swimmer from years past so I know I just needed time in the water. My first swim was painful, but I can see a huge improvement already. I can do a 600yd with just a couple of breaks and if I really had to, I could swim the 300m without stopping right now. Speed is a different issue but I'm doing drill to work on that.

I love cycling and that has been my focus for months. I can easily do the 10m so I'm not worried at all. I'm working on speed here too just for grins.

The run, on the other hand, just might send me to my grave. I'm getting very discouraged. I haven't run since I was a kid and I started 3 weeks ago with a plan to run 2min, walk 1 and then increase the time I was running each week so I'd be running the whole thing by Oct. Well, the first week I could barely muster 2 min. Now I can do the 2min, but barely and I'm not sure I can run 3min straight. I feel like my training is going horribly slowly and the only way to improve the running is to sacrifice the swim or bike.

Does everyone feel like that? Is there hope? Am I just stressing myself out too much?