Could use some encouragement....

For someone who hasn't done much in the past few years you asked a lot out of your body the first week. 

What are the distances for your mini? 

Remember the 10% rule for adding run mileage?  You went from 0 miles to 12 miles in one week.  That's a lot to put on the body.  Go easy coming back.

Hope you find the pool situation settled out soon.

You're off to a great start! 

Your goal at this time is to go easy enough and short enough that you want to do another workout tomorrow.  If that means taking a rest day because you haven't gone easy enough or short enough, don't sweat it too badly.  To put things in perspective, my first "workout" was a whole 15-minutes on an elliptical trainer, and I thought I'd started easy enough to comfortably complete it.  My tongue was hanging out, I was gassed, and I barely made it through 15 minutes, but I got on the next day, and the day after that I went 16 minutes.  On the 4th day, I jumped all the way to 18 minutes, but backed way down on the intensity so I could complete that monster workout. 

Thanks for the responses so far. The mini is a 250m swim, 7 mile bike, and a 2 mile run.  It's on September 12th so plenty of time to get in shape. I just want to be there now

FWIW, I have listened to my body and when things have gotten uncomfortable I've stopped. I'm not about to pass out from exhaustion ever.  I've never been sore but it's probably because of the extra long cool down walks I've been doing after each run (between 1 and 3 miles). 

I really appreciate it. I think having a event to train for is going to be good for me.

Thanks so much for the support. It is making me feel better.  I finished my second week of a 12 mile total so I think that is just where my body is right now.  I have to do all of my training runs off road due to an old injury and I'm sure that helps me be able to run a little further as running off road seems to prevent a lot of injuries.

It's not so much that I expect to be able to run 10 miles at once right now as much as that 3 miles used to practically be a day off rather than a long run and when I ran with my husband the past two days my curiousity go the best of me and I asked about the pace we ran on our two mile runs.  It was 12 minutes pace yesterday and 11:10 pace today. Umm...I had no idea it was even posssible for anyone to run that slow   However, everything that I've run so far has been at conversation pace and I know that once I'm back in shape that I'll enjoy seeing the minutes disappear off my pace each week.  Also, I'm carrying around atleast 20 lbs of fat that I'm hoping will eventually diappear.  I have hope!

This week, I will probably add some real rides and maybe some swims

You have gotten some great advice already ... just wanted to say to keep up the great work -- it will get easier! 

You're just getting started again.  This is totally normal.  Don't be worried.  Do listen to your body.