Another Cervelo in the house!

My sweetie finally has his TT bike!

When Scott unexpectedly fell nearly 40' while training for a competition completely unrelated to triathlon last April, his training for the year took an obvious turn. After spending 4 days in ICU and a full week in the hospital, recovery, rehab and maybe a few short road races would be the only things that the rest of 2008 would consist of. His hopes of doing some tris with me were pretty much crushed and until all of his injuries were 100% healed (broken ribs, punctured lung, lacerated liver) he really couldn't safely do anything more than swim for quite a while.

So, he spent the remainder of 2008 driving me to and from all of my races. Cheering me on, taking lots of pictures... and never, ever complaining about it; although I know that he wished he could be out there with me.

By mid-summer he had started running and biking again. Bits and pieces at a time; I could see that 'spark' of his returning. He still longed to do a tri before the end of the year, but we all knew that it probably wasn't going to be possible. So he now has his sight set on a successful (and injury free) 2009.

Scott loves to ride. I'm fairly certain that the bike leg of the triathlon is his favorite. He rocks it on his road bike and rides his mountain bike like he's a 12-year-old boy... fearless! I'm envious of his bike handling skills. Ever since we started looking for my tri bike, he's been itching to get on one himself. However, since he knew that nothing would be on the horizon for him until Spring 2009, we kept putting the idea of a TT bike for him on the back burner.

Well, the burner was officially turned off last week when the STEAL of a lifetime was found on EBay. A brand new 2007 Cervelo P3C for nearly 1/2 the cost of what a new '09 would be. Brand, spankin' NEW! I surprised Scott with the bike and he nearly jumped out of his skin. Like a kid at Christmas! It was beautiful!

Last Thursday we took Scott and the bike (who is now known as 'Merlin') down to Naples Cyclery and had a 3D fit completed. Um.. wow! A four-hour bike fit! Talk about comprehensive! I think I may get my booty down there as well. So Scott is all set up on his gorgeous new P3C. It's definitely a slack-ish set up and P3C purists would probably mock the spacers and angled stem... but he's comfy (which is always most important) and he'll grow into the bike as his overall flexibility increases and his right side (accident side) continues to strengthen. I think he looks fantastic on it and after the year that he has had, he totally deserves his mack-daddy bike! Enjoy it, baby!!! Love YOU!