Supporting the mission
On the racing aspect, the partnership is about elevating funds and consciousness for Greatest Buddies. The crew does that by racing – and, after all, getting outcomes. That’s clearly the place we are available, supporting the crew’s mission of inclusion by supporting their dietary wants on the bike.
“The crew contacted us for endurance diet as a result of they needed entry to one of the best merchandise accessible,” mentioned Mike Fogarty, Founder & CEO at First Endurance, of the partnership. “It’s a very good match, as a result of quite a few the riders and employees on the Greatest Buddies crew have already been utilizing the First Endurance line, but in addition as a result of we’re sturdy believers of their mission.”
As talked about above, these riders embrace Danny Estevez, the 2021 USA Elite Street Race and Criterium Nationwide Champion, and Rubén Companioni, whose path to professional biking started in Cuba, concerned a defection in Canada, and ended with him on the Professional-Conti circuit.
Historical past with First Endurance
Rubén – who has claimed podiums and wins from Costa Rica to the Tour de Beauce, with Redlands and Utah in between – has been a First Endurance adherent since he first began racing outdoors of Cuba.
“First Endurance was really helpful to me once I arrived in 2012,” he advised us, crediting an LBS proprietor in Florida for the introduction. “Then, I began within the Jamis crew and I noticed that each one the teammates used it.” Ultimately, we bought to know Rubén formally by way of a sponsorship with Holowesko in 2017.
Danny additionally grew to become a proponent of First Endurance early in his racing profession. Very early. “I used to be first launched to First Endurance once I was a junior again in 2007 at a Sizzling Tubes Growth Biking crew camp,” he advised us. He’s been a fan of the model ever since, crediting OptygenHP and Ultragen as two of his staples.
