Home From Kona

Sorry to be away so long. Lots has been happening. Marshaling, a new day job, building a website, starting Kokua Multisports, LLC (legal and accounting stuff), a bike crash. As we joke at home, "other than that, nothing is really happening".

Kona was a great learning experience as always. Nothing like seeing the world's fittest people up close and in person to get a feel for what is happening in triathlon, cycling and running. This year I would add swimming as well.

I won't be giving you the "dish" on what happened behind the scenes as that needs to remain behind the scenes. 2009 brought about the explosion of Facebook, Twitter and rules for those closely involved with events like Ironman and USA Triathlon. I respect that. I hope you understand. We can still talk about rules and happenings in our sport; I just cannot address specifics about races.

The most important thing I saw in Kona was the second confirmation that you CAN race hard and clean at the front of any field if the athletes choose to. I am happy to report I saw a lot of clean racing and sportsmanship.

More later...

Tour of Elk Grove Weekend!

The tour is here! Stop by the shop or more importantly... the race! Village has a tent near the start/finish line. Stop in and say "hello" and that you found the multisport team blog!

A Little Help in the Community

We follow Lance Armstrong on Twitter.

Check out this link Lance sent today. Drop him a line of support if you are moved enough to do so. I did.

http://www.fatcyclist.com/

What a Tour!

All the cyclists I know get their life back today.

Looking forward to the Tour of Elk Grove this week.

Silent Start to Thursday Night Intervals

 Wake services are tough.  They are a whole lot tougher when they guy in the wake is a 28 year old friend who died tragically.  Thursday afternoon was a parade of cycling and triathlon folks mixed with family.  The family was thankful for the support of their customers, employees, bike companies, suppliers and competition.  

Thursday night intervals had a different tone.  Those of us who have been with Village for a long time took control of the group last night before the ride.  We chose to honor Jason and his family by observing a cycling tradition of the silent lap.

We rode out to the shop as one group to the interval grounds.  Once there we formed a large group of 85 riders and for two laps nobody said a word.  It was a peaceful ride.  All you could hear was the buzz of various groupos.  Many of the folks went on to say it was very therapeutic.

A fitting salute to a fallen soul.

Intervals on June 25th

A lot of guys will be at the wake service from 3:30 until 5 or 5:15 pm today.  

In honor of Jason and Tour de France tradition, we will assemble at 6 pm in front of the store.  Say a few words and then ride the first two laps slowly and together as one group before we start intervals tonight.  

A Tough Day Today

Jason M. Eberhardt:

Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday, at the funeral home, 450 W. Lake St. (¾ mile west of Bloomingdale/Roselle Road), Roselle. . He was the loving son of Joseph and Laurie; dear brother of Bobby and Joe (Melissa) Eberhardt; dear grandson of Shirley Eberhardt; loving boyfriend of Christine Gaza; and loving uncle of Alyson and Abigail Eberhardt. 

For information, 630-889-1700.