Just wanted to post my first benchmarks:

15k bike ride (fairly flat course, little wind)
24:05

5k practice run (still 4 min walk / 2 minute run)
31:30

These were timed on consecutive days, not back-to-back like they'd be run in a sprint triathlon.

The sprint distance triathlon is a .75k swim, 15k bike, 5k run. I'm shooting for a time between an hour and hour-fifteen minutes. We'll see what happens with my training times as I get closer to the event (Apr - Jun '04 timeframe).

My current plan is to run a 5k race around New Years, a 10k Feb/March, a sprint triathlon May/June, and an Olympic triathlon late summer.

First things first...