My First "Real" Brick

I am really new to triathlon. I've been training in the three sports for almost a year now, and am planning on doing my first one in July. I've been reading about bricks and what I've read is that they should be a minimum of a 10 mile ride followed by at least a mile run. I've tried this in the past and was unable to run after the ride. After a few tries, I went for a five mile ride followed by a 3/4 mile run (one lap around my block...). After that worked a few times, I upped it to a 6.5 mile ride and then a 1 mile run (one lap around the block with a side trip down and back out of a cul de sac).

Well today I did the 10 mile bike followed by the one mile run for the first time. I went fairly quick on the bike and a lot faster than I expected on the run to boot. I don't have biking shoes, so I ride with my running shoes on. At the "transition", I walked my bike up the driveway, leaned it against the back bumper of the truck, took off the helmet and placed it on my bike, and kinda walked/ran to the end of the driveway before I started jogging in earnest.

I was kind of in a rut with the training the last few weeks, but I think this has me pretty motivated now. Hopefully it will last til race day!

J White