Last week I signed myself up for my first triathlon in mid July. Yes I realize that is a very short time frame to start training. If all goes well I will do another in August. I am 26, formerly a competitive athlete, active, but haven't done any serious training in a few years. On the weekend I went out to get some ideas of where I stand triathlonwise. Doing each event by itself, at a hard effort but not all-out, I managed a 37 min swim, 1:20 bike, 50 min run.

If I could do that all consecutively with a bit of transition time it puts me just under 3 hours. I really want to do well, and can dedicate about 16-20 hours a week to training for the next 5 weeks, and my question is what should I aim for. Or what would be some good milestone times to focus on. Also where can my limited time be best spent?