I made it! I opened my tri race season yesterday with the Mini Mightyman, a short, great starter race. I have to admit, pulling into the parking lot at 6:15 am, there was still part of me that wanted to turn around and go back to bed. But knowing I would have felt like crap if I did that, I sucked it up, got my packet and timing chip and went and got marked. I wasn’t nearly as trained as I’d hoped for this race (the only biking I did all winter was on the trainer; I hadn’t taken the bike out on the road. Not once). And bricks? I did one. Last Tuesday night. Had I not broken my toe, maybe I would have been a little better about training, but that’s the way it goes. All in all, though, I did ok. My total time was 1:06:51,...

