Trainings going well .... eventually

Finally the snow went away and allowed me to get training started...January wasn't the best month but as its only base training I wasn't too worried about missing the odd session through the snow etc (also a bad cold) in the first week. but it did get going and I have to say I'm enjoying it so far.
To summarise what I've done.... I've swam 4.2 miles in 4.4hours (mostly drills in 30-40 minute sessions) I've ran 49 miles in just over 9 hours...and I've biked 66 miles in just about 5 hours.
Just about all of the bike work has been on the turbo trainer...which I hate with a passion. The sessions have been 30-45 minutes and at the moment I cant do much more than that, simply because I hate it.
Guys at BCTTT reckon I need to learn to love the turbo but to be honest I can't wait for it to warm up a little and the lighter nights to come so I can get out and ride the hills.... I really believe I'll get much more from that...maybe not psychologically in terms of fighting the boredom...but in terms of doing the miles and fighting the actual hills for race day, I think being out on the course will be unbeatable.
my running is going well.... I'm not a fast runner by any standards but I'm working a run walk strategy and doing a hilly 5 miler in about 55 minutes...so I'm going to stick to that pace and hopefully once I start adding interval training etc I'll maybe get a bit more pace in there... I just don't know right now....its deffo still hurting!!!

so then we come to swimming, I thought I was an ok swimmer but I recently went to tricentral in Manchester, where they have an endless pool (think a treadmill with water) they also film you from 4 different angles.
I'm not an OK swimmer...my stroke and style are all over the place...it was a real eye opener and a massive motivation to do more drills rather than just bash out the laps....and its all legs...my arms were OK..not too bad form....but body position and kicking action needs massive work....and that means me spending even more money...oops.....triathlon is NOT the cheap sport I thought it would be.

That's about all I have to report on, I'm enjoying the adventure so far, looking forward to more although....it's snowing again....is somebody trying to stop me?????