Honolulu : Ala Moana Center
Erika Eberhart
Honolulu Club/Hickam Air Force Base
Erika Lee Eberhart has been in love with athletics since childhood. She learned to swim and downhill ski by the age of 3. Shortly thereafter, her father, a retired Air Force 4-Star General, confidently took her training wheels off of her first bicycle, rolling her towards a lifetime passion for cycling.
Erika moved 9 times and attended 13 different schools before she entered Clemson University in South Carolina, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Marketing. This seemingly "gypsy" lifestyle gave Erika a chance to do a number of sports while growing up. In addition to swimming, waterskiing, downhill skiing, and bike riding, she also played softball while living in Europe, and competed in crew (rowing) and cross country in high school in the Washington, D.C., area.
After 10 years off and on in the Washington D.C. area, Erika moved to Oahu in 1996, fleeing the four seasons that inhibit the ability to ride a bike outside comfortably year round. For the first time, she was able to train year-round and plunged into the sport of triathlon. After a successful year of racing in 1998, she unfortunately had a very serious bike accident, shattering her right ankle. The bike accident brought her a new lease on life. The doctors told her Mom and Dad she would most likely walk with a limp and never compete again. With the utmost determination, she did all of her own physical therapy, through research and listening to her body. Despite a 6 inch plate, 10 screws, and 2 washers in her ankle, Erika was convinced she could get back to her pre-accident fitness level.
Shortly before the accident, she had become a certified Johnny G Spinning (r) Instructor, and utilized the avenue of teaching to show anything is possible after she recovered from the accident. In 2005, she jumped into the sport of Outrigger Canoe Paddling. During her first year competing in this new found sport, she crossed the Molokai Channel with 9 other women, winning 1st overall Koa Canoe. Erika was also fortunate enough to paddle for the Hawaii contingent in the Havaiki Nui Va'a (the annual race in Tahiti), where her team took 3rd overall. She has also been racing in cycling Time Trials off and on since 2007, winning 1st in her age group for the Mokuleia Time Trial in 2007 and 3rd Masters Female in the Castle to Hanauma Bay Time Trial in 2007. She was also the fastest woman on a bike in the Castle to Hanauma Bay Time Trial in 2008 winning the gold! In her spare time, Erika gets on her one-man outrigger canoe as much as possible. For Erika, the ability to totally be free on our ocean is awe-inspring!
Erika is a certified Johnny G Spinning (r) Instructor, a certified Schwinn Studio Cycling Coach, an AFAA Studio Cycling Certified Trainer, an AFAA Personal Trainer, and also holds an AFAA Primary Group Exercise certification. Outside of her full-time job, she fulfills her passion by teaching four to six Spinning (r) classes a week at the Honolulu Club and Hickam Air Force Base, and swimming four to five miles a week.
Erika has also coached Cycling for BOCA Hawaii and conducted her own one-on-one personal cycling coaching through her company, Sprocket-E-Rocket.
"See It, Want It, Get It" and "No Regrets" are phrases you will hear regularly when taking Erika's classes. Erika epitomizes DETERMINATION -- firmly believing people can not only MEET their goals, but they can BEAT their goals.