Plans changed over the weekend. One of our Tri Alliance family (and ex coach) John Cornish was killed whilst cycling on Friday evening. He was travelling along Beach road and was trying to pass a parked car and a van hit him whilst trying to change lanes. He died on location.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8276341/cyclist-killed-by-van-in-brighton
The triathlon and cycling community are mourning. The coached ride on Saturday was cancelled. I am not sure if anyone was out at the 8am run session today either.
After breakfast, I walked into Turning Point Cycles and spoke to Dan and Kylie (they are the owners) about JC. There is no way of stopping cyclist being killed on the roads - you can't change driver's annoyance towards cyclist. Yes there are cyclist out there to give cyclist a bad name - they run red lights, they weave through traffic and cause damage to property but there are a lot of drivers out there who don't consider cyclists a humans and just have so much anger and hatred towards them. How many cyclist do we need to lose before these drivers need to realise that cyclists share the roads. This is truly a lesson that all drivers and cyclists need to learn.
Yesterday, we met at ELSC at 4pm for a small wake and to hear from the police about what happened. When Ollie spoke about JC, it brought tears to my eyes. He had lost a true friend and a valuable staff member. We then went to St Kilda for drinks in remembrance of JC and just hanging out "with the family" without being in training.
Valuable lessons to be learnt by all - we need to be better people.
