WATERLOO - Police have released the name of a bicyclist who was found dead not far from his home Thursday morning.

Officers said evidence at the scene indicates Todd Parsons Western Jr., 64, fell from his bike and struck his head after the bike left a lawn and went into a street construction site.

The death appears to be an accident, but the body is being sent to the State Medical Examiner's Office in Ankeny for an autopsy, said Lt. Rich Carter with the Waterloo Police Department.

A neighbor in the 1100 block of East Ridgeway Avenue found the Western's body tangled in his bicycle in a construction zone that shut down the street, police said.

Carter said Western was training to run a marathon and left his home at 3220 Bethel St., at about 11 p.m. Wednesday to go to West High School to go jogging.

He was found at about 6:20 a.m. Thursday.

Police said Western wasn't wearing a bicycle helmet.

East Ridgeway has been shut down at the intersection of West Ninth Street as part of a construction project. Western's body was found at the east end of the scene, not too far from where the street was blocked off with an orange fence.

It appears he rode into a yard to go around the construction scene but then entered the work area.

Contact Jeff Reinitz at (319) 291-1578 or jeff.reinitz@wcfcourier.com.