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ditto to what clint said....great having a bike, but honestly, it is probably better that you fell now, versus later.  to make you feel better, I will share my "dumb biker" moment:

Here goes:

At the time, I had my clipless pedals about 9 months (well through the winter, and into the next season).  I was coming to the only stop light in my town that I ride through, which normally is green since there is not much cross traffic.  Well, I was going to go but noticed a car coming the other way, so I decided to stop since the light changed to yellow.  Now mind you, in my head I was thinking stop at the light, unclip your shoe, put your foot down, etc... but my body heard this - after this car you should be able to go, and not miss a beat....those two don't go well together, and as I tipped over sideways at the stop light there was about 6-7 cars (I am sure staring and laughing histerically at me), so my embarrassment grew a little.  Short story long, slight scratch on my pedal, much more harm done to my ego!

Welcome to the "I have fallen" club Sandy, glad to hear everything is OK!

Sandy-

Those things will always happen at different races, to which I can only say - make sure to give yourself more thime than you will think you are going to need the morning of race day - it will help calm the nerves if you don't have to rush through everything.

Glad to hear that you made it through the race and enjoyed it....hopefully all of our snow will melt soon!!

how often have you riden the bike at the gym?  If you can do the distance, plus a little more then you will be fine.

Or, you can always put on the clothes that you would go running with and take the bike out for a spin

Sandy-

   I the main goal for your first tri should be finishing, plain and simple.  After that, you will have something to gauge yourself on.  It sounds like you have an idea of how long it will take, but make finishing your main goal, and time your second goal

It really depends on your body and what it is used to.  What normally works well for most is to "taper".  That means that you continue to workout upto the race, but the last week you would decrease either the time/distance.  What ever you have been focusing on, so, if your workouts are "run 5 miles" then run 3 or 4, if they are "run for 30 minutes" then run for 20-25 minutes .  Then the day before the race, rest/relax and get your things ready for the big day

Hopefully it will get nice for the both of us so we can get outside more often!

One thing I found helpful when having to bike indoors is to transition right to the treadmill for a short stint...although it is not outside biking/running, it is pretty close.  I have found that you can pretty much duplicate anything inside that you can do outside....except for the scenery!