Quote Originally Posted by Tri Girl View Post
I have a book: Training Plans for the Multisport Athlete by Gale Bernhardt that has plans for every level of competition. They've worked well for me.
This was the book I used too. I had thought about doing a tri for a while and just got the the point where I said "now or never". I used the "six weeks to olympic distance" plan in the book although my first tri was actually a sprint. After a week of training DH joined in (decided he didn't fancy standing with all of the wives and girlfriends while I raced). Our swimming was seriously bad, but we just followed the plan and it did what it said on the tin - got us through our first triathlon without breaking anything (or coming last).

I'm going to modify the "faster olympic distance" plan for this year......getting ambitious!