Cyclist Conor O’Brian will undertake a nearly 200-mile ride around Maui on Sunday to show support and spread awareness. Imua Family Services photo Cyclist Conor O’Brian will undertake a nearly 200-mile ride around Maui on Sunday to show support and spread awareness. Imua Family Services photo The Maui News
Passionate about the nonprofit Imua Family Services’ mission of helping children and families, cyclist Conor O’Brian will undertake a nearly 200-mile ride around Maui on Sunday to show support and spread awareness.
O’Brian has spent multiple summers focusing on empowering kids to overcome challenges. His recent winters have been spent on Maui, where he applies his bicycle expertise and graphic design training as an employee at the local bike shop Maui Sunriders.
“Coming into this winter of cycling training, one of my goals has been to ride all three of the major cycling routes that draw cyclists to the island – the West Maui Loop, the East Maui Loop, and the climb to the 10,000-foot summit of Haleakala – in one single effort,” O’Brian said in a news release.
He first found Imua Family Services through their annual Pedal Imua fundraiser, a big bike ride that traverses the West Maui Loop.
O’Brian’s ride on Sunday will encircle the entire island. It begins with an early-morning start in La Perouse, followed by a long clockwise trek through South, West, North, and then East Maui.
Emerging out of Kaupo, he’ll travel Upcountry and finish atop the summit of Haleakala.For local cyclists looking to accompany O’Brian, he welcomes fellow […]
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