One bicyclist killed during an intense three-day adventure-racing event
As participants in the “Sea-to-Sea” Expedition Race, the promoter tells Historic City News reporters that the
intense three-day adventure-racing event involves sufficient risk to require execution of an injury waiver before the athletes can compete.
At about 2:34 a.m. Sunday morning, February 28, 2021, Florida Highway Patrol Crash Investigator, Trooper Kevis Coley, responded along the event route to the scene of an accident involving a motorist-vs-bicyclist.
The race started in Pine Island Park in Spring Hill on Florida’s west coast and finished in St. Augustine. In Sea-to-Sea, participants navigate roads and waterways, with the help of kayaks and bicycles, as part of the extreme adventure sport. Participants raced in teams and had 72-hours to complete the race and get as many points as possible by hitting checkpoints along the way.
Manz s death has sparked an outpouring of grief and condolences on social media.
He worked at the Indiana University School of Medicine Southwest Indiana Internal Medicine Residency Program at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes and Ascension St. Vincent Evansville, according to a Facebook post from the university.
Manz served eight years in the Marines, according to the university. He was actively involved in the 126th Medical Group Air National Guard.
“It was an honor to work with Dr. Manz, who was trusted and admired by his fellow residents,” Dr. Robert Ficalora, program director of the Southwest Indiana Internal Medicine Residency, said in the post. “He was an amazing force of life. From flying the injured out of Afghanistan, service in the Air National Guard, or caring for his patients, he was about service above self.”