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"Ladies, it&amp;#39;s been a while since I checked in with you regarding my triathlon training--too long, in fact. I hit something of a milestone last weekend, though, so I thought this would be the perfect time to loop you in on where things are on turning this editor into a super-charged triathlete (a.k.a. one who can, like, finish the race).\nAs I explained before, I knew what I was taking on with the running part of this endeavor. Biking was meh, and swimming...well, we&amp;#39;ll deal with swmming in another post. I&amp;#39;ve been trying to get more comfortable on my single speed track bike with 650c wheels, but pretending I&amp;#39;m on a road bike for a 12.4 mile course hasn&amp;#39;t been cutting it. I&amp;#39;m not relaxed, my form is terrible, and I&amp;#39;m nervous. It doesn&amp;#39;t a good rider make, and I haven&amp;#39;t moved on a single brick workout yet, which is a stage I certainly should have hit. (Meep.)\nWell, meet the new love of my life (sorry, boyfriend), in all of her glory. She&amp;#39;s an 2013 Liv/GIANT Avail 1 in XXS (with 700c, the first time I&amp;#39;ve had a frame that could accommodate these wheels!):\nPinterestFacebookFor the record, as I was pulling into my street after the ride, I decided to call her Priscilla, the Priss. She&amp;#39;d earned it.\nThe size is brand new; small gals like me have had a very hard time finding good road bikes in rideable sizes, and I f-l-i-p-p-e-d out when I heard Liv/GIANT was going to have an XXS version of their Avail 1 ready for me to ride and train on. Since Liv/GIANT is a women-specific branch off of the larger GIANT brand, they&amp;#39;re ultra-focused on making sure women feel really comfortable on their set-ups, whether they&amp;#39;re doing a tri like me, or just getting on one for the first time (or doing both at the same time!), so they&amp;#39;re the perfect match to be helping out all of us in the Editor&amp;#39;s Cup Challenge step up our games.\nAnd HOLY WOW has it made a difference. With some help from my coach--confession: my guy is a former professional track cyclist, so I&amp;#39;ve got some good guidance to learn the ropes--I took my bike out for its first ride, and it ended up being the longest, strongest, most confident ride I&amp;#39;d ever had.\nEverything just clicked. (I kind of remember that happening with driving when I was 16, too.) After 13.5 miles in Prospect Park, my first clipped-in ride, as well, I shook out my hair and snapped this pic:\nPinterestFacebookAnd yes, that&amp;#39;s EXACTLY how I felt.\nI fell into that groove, and it was amazing. Everything from my form to my attitude to my spirit changed, and now I feel as ready to succeed in the saddle as I do on my feet during the run. Two events down, one to good. Never mind that I look like a disaster I the pool right now.\n...anyone want to teach me how to swim in the next two months?\nUPDATE, 2:29 P.M. Just finished a 20.1 mile ride, my best yet!\nEver had a moment where you fell into your athletic groove? Which sport was it with, and what happened?\nP.S. And now for something totally different...it&amp;#39;s National Yoga Month!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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