I got dropped ...

... on the bike by both Chris and Justin. This is the last weekend before Miami and today was Justin and my last brick before the race. As he often did Chris joined us for the ride. We only planned on a 50-60 km ride and these rides are pretty much not too difficult and don't take much out of us but today I worked my butt of to keep up with Justin and Chris while both of them seemed to be cruising. Why? Well it all comes down to the bike. Since returning from California a couple of weeks ago I still hadn't unpacked the P3. My first week back I was still feeling sick and didn't feel like unpacking and assembling the bike and once I started feeling better it was less then 2 weeks to the race and again, I didn't feel like unpacking and assembling for a couple of rides only to turn around and disassemble and pack it again. This left me with my road bike as my only option and I know the light aero wheels and carbon frame and aero position on the P3 make a difference when riding but geez I didn't think it was THAT much of a difference. How much of a difference? Well heading up York Durham just north of Bloomington we hit a climb that starts out gradual, gets steep then levels off to gradual again. It's not long but it's not short either. I took the lead there and climbed the hill out of the saddle the whole way and I wasn't sure but I think I opened up a bit of space between myself and Chris and Justin. At the crest of the climb I geared down and started pedaling strongly on the decent thinking I should be able to stay ahead. Ya right. About a minute into the decent Chris pulled up next to me and as I was pedaling like crazy he was COASTING! He wasn't even pedaling! WTF? Now that was pathetic and to punctuate it, later in the ride on another decent coming down McCowan Road, Justin did the same thing. He pulled up next to me, coasting while I was pedaling away and said "It looks like you're working pretty hard Nick". The whole ride I struggled to keep up and I was happy when it ended. Now Justin and I were going to run and I was going to exact my revenge on him. Well I thought about it but it wasn't his fault I was on my road bike ..... but I would make him work anyway. Justin had to get back home pretty soon so we shortened up the run a bit and did only 7.5 km instead of the closer to 10 km we originally planned on doing but I tried to keep up a bit quicker pace than Justin normally runs. I think I tired him out but considering it was a short run and the last real brick before Miami it was needed.