I love my P3

Another great day for riding.I only hope this weather more or less keeps up till Justin and I get through our training so we don't have to deal with cooler temperatures. It was still windy though, the norm for this area. The plan was for Justin, Chris and I to do a 50 km ride followed by a 6-7 km run for Justin and me. We decided on the York-Durham to Aurora Rd. route again, across to Kennedy and south to Major Mackenzie and home. The whole ride my legs felt really good. I got into my 16 tooth cog on the cassette, pretty much the middle of the range and wanted to stay in that gearing all the heading north. It was a combination that I wouldn't spin out on when on a decent and challenge my legs on climbs. The ride north is basically a climb and isn't very varied so I was able to maintain consistent pedaling even though I had to grind up one small climb. Just north of Bloomington though there's a bit longer, steeper climb and while still in the same gearing I decided to get out of the saddle and jump on the pedals to the top of the hill. It seemed like I was pounding forever and I while my legs started to burn and ache it was my arms that were starting to give out. I'm pretty stubborn though and I wasn't about to sit my butt down until I got to the top. I made it up and thankfully sat down and rolled over the top and began a long decent down towards Aurora Rd. I thought for sure I'd trashed my legs for the rest of the ride but after turning onto Aurora and heading west they still felt good. Chris picked up the pace to around 38 km/hr and I found no trouble keeping up. I have to think that the P3 geometry has to have something to do with this. I told Chris that I felt I could push a bigger gear and not feel it as much as I did on the Orbea. I really hope that's the case and not that I was just having a good day and with any luck the P3 will help me to a good bike split in Miami. During the ride though Justin mentioned that his knee was still bothering him and he thought it best to skip tonight's run which was the right decision. Last thing we want at this point, this close to the race, is to suffer an injury that would impact our final training and maybe even affect race day.