ok I finally have my first Triathlon A race

I decided to make sure I get into the Chicago Triathlon. Hopely the Oly still has a good Cylsdale as they did this year. considering I heard its the largest tri in the world I thinking it may still have it. I basicly have about 1 year to train for this. I think with the right training I can place in my age group/weight group.

Right now my swimming is only good enough for a spirit. I am starting to go more than .5 miles but its been hard since I been working on form also and been getting faster but more tired at the same time.

I guess my question is how do I train for each event so I can do the oly and do it at good speed? Do I work on doing like 50 miles a weekend on bike and 2 miles on the swim so that 25 miles on the bike and .9 miles on the swim become easy? if I was jsut training for running I would do a lsd on satuday. during the week I would do the distance and race speed and do 2 runs during the week at a shorter and faster distance to work on speed.

I know my swim needs alot of work so I will work on my form. 1 year is a long time but I figure I would basicly need to cut down from 5 hours for an oly to 3 hour oly.