Desperately Need A Ten Week Training Schedule For First Half Iron

Sounds like you've already mapped out a reasonable plan and just need to stick to it.  Only suggestion I would offer would be to consider making one of the three runs a long run.

Mark

Thanks for the replies everyone! 

I'll definitely check out Training Peaks.  I've printed out a 16 week plan from Tri-Fuel, but I've been limited during the first five weeks of it.  At this point, I'm taking the 12 hours of weekly workouts and doing them whenever I can, as opposed to the order they're supposed to be in (which I know can be dangerous).  For example, I know I have all day Saturday open, so that's my 2-3 hour bike ride, plus short brick at the end.  I also have all day Sunday, so that's a recovery run plus a longer swim.  During the week I'm doing what I can, especially on the bike (which I am pretty bad at) and swim (I love to swim but am flat out slow).   

So, the last 11 weeks will be an exercise (pun intended!) in cramming in a good amount of training without ending up injured.  I'd feel really stupid if the HIM was a disaster because I didn't train hard enough, so I'm really going to put my foot on the pedal now.

Thanks so much for your input.

You could consider upgrading your BT account to a Gold membership. The custom plan creator that comes with Gold is perfect for this sort of situation.  Details here:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/members.asp?s=16&rcol=a&co=2

Heh. I'm the queen of the ER-to-IM in 8 weeks plan ... it hasn't worked yet but I'm very hopeful!

You've gotten some good suggestions above. Another one is to look at (the book) Be Iron Fit by Don Fink ... it has three training plans with varying levels of time commitment, but there is a half-iron "practice" race at Week 22 for all of them (of a 30-week program). Many people have used it to train and execute a half-iron. I'd look at Weeks 12-22 of the various plans and see what might work for you.

It sounds like you have some good running base from the past; one way I've been able to put in a LEETLE more run volume than I might otherwise have is to add aquajogging minutes at the end of swims (and outright aquajog, say, an hour of a three-hour run).

Welcome to BT, by the way, and good luck!

Thanks, those are great ideas!  I upped my membership for a month and received some assistance with creating a custom plan, it looks like a winner (the swimming drill videos are also really helpful)!  And I hadn't even thought about aquajogging but will give that a shot too, I remember how helpful it has been in the past. 

Honestly, I read about those on the forum who pull off full ironman training with full time jobs and multiple kids.  I would love to do that some day but I think it might require me getting a different job!

Thanks again for all your advice.