Planning My Training

Planning your training is a interesting sort of problem. You want it to be hard enough that you feel like you are working towards your goal, but not so hard that you want to quit or become injured. What I have found that for me, I tend toward the train hard - feel the work, until I injure myself. This time I'm try to slowy ease my way int running, since that is the sport that beats you up the most out of triathlon.
So for training plans I have looked at: Be Iron Fit, 2nd: Time-Efficient Training Secrets for Ultimate Fitness By Don Fink. Good help with time efficiency and workouts toward getting ready for an Ironman race.

IronFit Secrets for Half Iron-Distance Triathlon Success: Time-Efficient Training for Triathlon's Most Popular Distance Good help with time efficiency and workouts tailored to the 1/2 IM. This is what I have base most of my trainig on.

For running I have started BarryP's running plan from slowtwitch.com. It is a 6 day a week running plan, but starts off with very short easy runs and builds from there. I believe that recovery is key for me and I will be careful not to overextend myself.

For the bike, I have the ability to use the corporate gym during lunchtime, so the plan is to ride the spin-bike. I will get on the road on the weekend and evenings as the summer progresses. Similar to BarryP's plan, I will biking 3 shorts, 2 mediums and a long. I will start the workouts short and slowly increase the time as I see my recovery improve.

Swimming will be lagging as the plan is to restart Total Immersion swimming at the local town pool, when they open at the end of this month. I will start swimming twice a week and add a third session when time permits.