Thanks for the tips. I'm thinking spring might be a good time for my first sprint, that will give me planty of time to prep. My backstory is that of your typical couch to tri guy. Last april I weighed in at 288 today I'm 215. I've been working cardio daily for 90-120min mainly elliptical and bike. A few months back I got back on my real bike after a number of years and it really took hold. I'm exploring different goals for myself physically and after completing several 40 mi rides I decided I want to complete a century next summer. As I was thinking a talking to friends about that one suggested a triathlon...all I could think of was the Ironman and that he was nuts, but he told me about sprints and the variety of divisions etc.

The cycling will be the easy part for me, I've always hated running bt this morning hit the treadmill and ground out 40mins after not running more than 20 in my life...I guess I'm in better shape than I thought. Swimming will be the tough part but at least I have a pool to train in where I work. In the mean time I may register for a local Thanksgiving Day 5k just to get used to the road.