Peter Holmes

On Sunday night I received the terrible news that Pete Holmes, a very close friend of mine and a huge amount of other other people died by a fall while hiking in the mountains in Vancouver.

I first met Pete in one of my lectures (I say lectures, I mean running around hockey pitch). Typical to when you arrive at University, people try to get to know everyone and start friendship groups….Pistol was a more then approachable guy and mainly through our running connection we quickly became good friends.

He later started work for British Triathlon as the media officer. I and another lucky large group of people got to know Pete better and I think most of us will remember Pete for being extremely enthusiastic about his work but everyone will also agree that he did an incredible job for us hence he eventually ended up working for a larger organisation like the International Triathlon Union. Probably his dream job!  I tell you what though, Pete REALLY ENJOYED HIS WORK!

Pistol was a Loughborough legend, he had a huge amount of involvement in Loughborough Students Athletics Club and in whatever he could get stuck into really! He attended every social, had more interest in what everyone else was doing over himself and we shared many runs together around Loughborough and eventually all over the world.  I think the last real quality time we spent together was our ski trip in Les Deux Alpes 11 months ago. He was a bloody good skier but I think he spent more time helping everyone else learn rather then smashing up and down himself!

Thats the type of guy he was.  Loyal, very committed and hard working, Genuine and kind.  He will be missed by a hell of a lot of people thats for sure.

It’s so great to see everyone getting stuck into remembering the great man.  With a remembrance Facebook Group with more then 1000 people after not even 2 days and a University Run organised (Sunday Surgery Run, 11am Loughborough HiPAC)  Thats just goes to show the effect he had on us up here.

Rest in Peace matey.

Will

Categories: 2009, friends, motivation

Tags: ITU, Loughborough Athletics Club, Peter Holmes, Vancouver

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