Hello,
Brand new to this forum - and everyone seems polite and has alot of good advice from what I have read.

I have been planning/training for a Tri for 4 years - I have a pretty serious Medical Condition that is now under control - so it has been a slow road. Have walked/run 3 half marathons, and alot of 5k's -

Just read about a 70 year old woman biking from Birmingham to Mexico for charity. Seems like she's going to do it for books and education. Can we do something like this one?

This will be my 2nd full season of racing in triathlons. Last year I raced in 8 triathlons, 6 sprint, 2 oly. I started racing three years ago, but started in September of 08 and only raced in 2 races. At the end of that year, I thought I was missing something, to me I needed more strength, not bulk, but just overall strength. I did P90X with mixed results, no fault of the programs but rather I let my triathlon training go away almost completely and P90X is child's play when it comes to cardio and endurance training.

The past two years of my life have been quite interesting with all the events life has given me. Getting hit by a drunk driver, getting injured, recovering from an injury, graduating college, a new relationship, traveling half way across the country, exploring that relationships depth, then randomly meeting trisooner , the relationship ending, coming back trying to find a job, and sorting through all that a relationship ending brings. There was one thing that I have maintained through all of that though.

Biking is by far my weakest area. While I am trying to get more time in the saddle to improve I am totally confused on the gears.