Training Plan Attack Plan

^ I think jford hit the nail on the head - the answer is whatever keeps you motivated and excited. There's also nothing wrong with shifting your goals a little more long term - work on your running with the goal of having that improved for next year's season. Although with the one sprint left you may want to at least tackle that one.

I'm with you on the running thing. It's by far the worst part of my triathlon, and it's what'll keep me at sprint distance for a while. I feel pretty confident in my ability to swim/bike at Oly and HIM distances, but running more than 5K is pretty daunting to me at this point. But I couldn't stand the thought of focusing excessively on running. I enjoy biking and swimming too much (and HATE running). I'll always spend most of my training time on the bike because it's fun - doing triathlons keeps me motivated to run. I could definitely see myself slacking in that department if I knew I was going to be doing any tris for the next 8 months.

You can't substitute race experience, and its easy fun experience on the short course circuit.

If you were more all over the place like having some long courses on your plan, I'd suggest toning down, but racing short course is easy to recover from, takes a minimal amount of investment and is just plain fun. Plus you can have run-centered training without really damaging your performance too much if you can manage to swim and ride a couple of times a week. Just make those high intensity workouts.