In the blink of an eye.
I have just finished a day of handing out race packets and answering the same questions over and over. Now I am asking myself a question that I was hoping I would not have to answer for a while. Why? Why has another one of my friends been taken? I just got the news that Bill Corliss has been struck by a truck and killed while riding his bike. Shit.
I have been riding for a long time now and as a result a lot of great and not so great people have crossed my path. Bill was definitely the former. There are many people that I know only on the bike but that does not mean that they are any less dear to me my “regular” friends. I have never hung out with Bill on a social level. I don’t know his birthday or his favorite color. Despite that Bill was always someone I enjoyed seeing and riding with. He was someone I had a great deal of respect for as a rider and a person. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Sometimes life is not fair. All we can do is try to be as safe as possible and look out for one another out there. It is hard enough starting the season without Allan in the peleton. Let’s go out this season and race hard, fair and safe. Bill and Al would have wanted it that way.
