The death of 41-year-old Lindsay Burgess has rocked the cycling community
The woman who died after being struck by a pickup truck in Central Saanich during a bike race on Sunday was a two-time provincial cyclocross winner who “lit up the start line” with her jokes, her spouse says.
Life for the couple consisted of cycling and work, Grice said, with eight to 16 hours of training per week. They trained on the trails together and had two indoor trainers side-by-side at home. Burgess had always been a commuter cyclist, but she started riding more around 2014 and entered her first cyclocross race in 2017, placing 18th of 34. The event was part of an annual seven-race series on Vancouver Island known as Cross on the Rocks for cyclocross races, a closed-circuit event often held in parks that involves occasionally carrying a bike over obstacles.“I don’t know that Lindsay was necessarily just automatically good at whatever she did,” Grice said.
Not the type to sit on the couch watching television or have downtime, Burgess always had something planned, he said. When the couple became more serious about cycling, they sold their sailboat and moved from a condo to a house in Langford with a garage to fit their bicycles and gear, he said.
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