I caved and now ......

...... I'm the proud owner of a 2010 Cervelo P3C, well just the frame for now till I get all of the components transferred. And my application to be a part of Team Cervelo has been approved. I waited all day anticipating my meeting to take a look at the frame and take it to a new home. We met at Yorkdale Mall and as soon as I saw the frame I new I wasn't leaving without it. Up till a couple of days ago I'd only ever seen the white colour scheme for the 2010 P3C model but this one was black, silver and red. I went to the Cervelo site to check it out and to be honest I wasn't overly impressed but I have to say that the image on the website just doesn't do this frame justice. Up close and personal this frame is beautiful. The guy selling it is a student and a sponsored rider looking to go pro and up until June was riding a different bike. In late June he was involved in an accident where he was hit by a truck. He didn't suffer much damage but his bike was totaled. He was competing in the Canadian National Championships a month later but now found himself without a bike. He placed a call to a previous sponsor and landed a new bike for the race, the P3C. He put in about 500 km of training on it and a couple of races and that's it. This frame was next to new and it looked it. Anyway, long story short, I paid the gent and the P3C frame had a new home. On top of that, being sponsored, he had all kind of additional gear that he was given. He offered to throw in a new carbon frame pump and a saddle but I wouldn't have used them so I declined. However, he also had a nice Rudy Project helmet that he had to use during a race where he was sponsored by them and that I did take. Plus he left the Dura Ace bottom bracket that he was using installed in the frame. Bonus swag! I can't wait to start moving components from the Orbea. So that was in the afternoon. Tonight Chris, Justin and myself had "swim lessons". The woman that bought Justin's Cervelo Dual is a personal trainer and a swim coach so we thought it might be a good idea to get some instruction to see if we could correct some technique flaws and pick up some time in the water. She really new her stuff and for myself, I think I got a lot out of what she told me. Now I need to put her recommendations into action over the next couple of weeks and see if I can drop a bit of time off my swim. I'm thinking that we can have her come back out for another session near the end of the month to see if we've been able to make some headway and also to see if she has any more suggestions for us.