Henrico County, Virginia | Competitive Bicyclist Will be Missed

Today,Fawell's family and much of the Richmond area's competitive bicycling community will be at Fawell's funeral, an event marking a tragic end to a life in which failure was a rarity.

During a late-afternoon training ride Aug. 25, Fawell, 38, was wheeling toward Rockville in Hanover County on Pouncey Tract Road when his white Cannondale road bike, traveling 30 mph on fresh blacktop within a marked bike lane, collided with an oncoming pickup truck that had turned left in front of him.

The collision marked a rare instance when Fawell was riding alone, and his family said he remained without medical care with two collapsed lungs for as long as 30 minutes.

"It is one of the tragedies about all this," said Lara Fawell, who sells medical equipment and worked with her husband from the couple's home. "Mike never did anything wrong. He was always the one who made a point of being careful, of thinking of others, of doing the right thing."

"To him, cycling was a passion — it inspired him to succeed and provided him an outlet to feel free," Lara wrote of her husband, who grew up in the Chicago suburbs and graduated from Northwestern University.

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                                                                                             Michael John Fawell, 38, was a multisport athlete,
                                                                                             triathlete and bodybuilder who turned to                
                                                                                             competitive bicycling.