Need ideas for what plan to use

Do you have any race goals after the sprint tri in a few days?  Anything later this year?  Maybe you have a long term goal for next year?

Give us some more info and will see what may be some options.

Good luck on June 15th!

Oops that was a typo...it was supposed to say july 15....yikes!  lol  That would be even scarier if it were june. 

So that gives a little more time for goals....no idea what I want to do after that though....maybe another sprint later in the summer or something.  I really just want to see how the first one goes.  My main goal for this first one is just to survive it and enjoy it. 

Thanks! 

Well now until the july 15th is the big focus for now, but something that could take me through the end of the summer would be cool as well.  I should have a ton of time available all the way through the end of august that I would like to fill with training. 

Look at month two of the 3x Balanced Olympic - it seems it would fit with your swimming, although biking builds from an hour and a half on up.  From your training, jumping from less than an hour of biking to almost 3 hours could be a little much...just saying.  I would stick with month two of the oly plan for the bike and swim but focus on getting those 3 workouts in for consistency...plus the build is the 10% rule, so it is nice and conservative.

When you are ready to run again, maybe start somewhere in the couch to 5k aggressive program?  Don't build up fast at all, plan to walk race day if needed...or make the 5k plan walk/run minutes your race-day strategy for the run. 

A week before your sprint, you can cut whatever current volume you have been doing by half at least or more.  Just do (2) 20 minute swims and (2) 30 minute bikes and you will be good.  Can't say much about the run at the moment though. 

Are you treating the splints yourself or with a doc?

Thanks Ron!  That looks like it would work well though a few of the long bike times are a bit intimidating.  On wednesday I did two seperate hour-long rides....the first one was fine and the second was good for the first half but then I just got tired (and I hadn't eaten well so that didn't help).  Anyway I think if I keep a consistant slow pace I can do most of the ride times for month 2. 

For the running, I was using the couch to 5k program and that was working well for me, so I think if I change all the running times to 30 min. and use the couch to 5k times that could work.  Is that what you were thinking?  I've been seeing a specialist for a while now about my shins.  He did a full evaluation and ordered orthotics for me which I got last week and have been slowly increasing my time wearing them.  He said that as soon as I can wear them for 8 hours/day without pain (which I did yesterday because I forgot to take them out) that I can start light workouts with them.  Of course his light run suggestion is running 1-2 miles, but I don't think I've run even 1 before!   Anyway, he basically said just to start slow and stop if it hurts, so maybe I'll start with one of the earlier easy couch to 5k weeks and go from there.  At the time my shins got bad I was in week 2 of the second month, so I was doing 18/12 and felt surprisingly good breathing-wise but my shins weren't happy.  Maybe starting a couple weeks before that would be good just to see how it feels.  I definitely don't want to rush things again.  For the run part of the race I've pretty much resigned myself to walking it because I have enough trouble with running without having already swam and biked.  It's not how I wanted to do my first race, but it's better than nothing, right?

Anyway, thanks again for all your help!   

I would definitely start earlier in the couch to 5k program using the run/walk method for 30minutes.  And it sounds like this is in line or even more conservative than your Docs suggestions which is good.  Or maybe even move to the Conservative program...although it will take awhile to get up to full running...if you are OK with that.

Let's hope the orthotics work!