Bicycle Touring & More. Other outdoor activity

I just did my first sprint Tri on a hybrid/mountain bike, Specialized Hard Rock (I think it’s 97 or 98) with smooth tires and did pretty good (bike rank 430 out of 2612). But I am thinking I could do much better with a road bike.

However, I don’t know anything about road bikes.

Could you recommend a reasonably priced road bike for a female beginner?

Binangonan is next in the map.
Although we would have wanted very much to see more local color, we decided not to enter the town proper itself. We biked through the national highway instead as this would give us more speed and thus finish the ride on time.

The most breathtaking views of the lake, […]