Last week was a busy one. First we had the hugely successful second running of the Midsummers Cross Race at Diver Lake Park.  An amazing event.  Despite the heat and smoke we had a great turn out, lots of volunteers to make set up a breeze leaving plenty of time for racers to pre-ride the course.  Also a huge turn out of racers with 113 taking the line and kicking up dust.  That number includes the Zoom Zooms and the Half lappers that made sure Norm warmed up for his race

He had to to drop that Megaphone because they were on his wheel.

We also had Rhonda and the girls from Superstore out serving up cold snacks.  The lack of a hot barbecue didn't seem to bother anyone.  The Icecream sandwich and Orange slice hand ups were definitely a welcome treat to parched and dusty racers.

B race results Here

A race results Here

We followed that up with our Arrowsmith Bikes Hill climb.  I'm not gonna lie, after Wednesday night I considered cancelling the hill climb because I thought who wants to race again the next night.  Well I was wrong.  We had a great turn out with 14 riders tackling the Jameson Road climb.

Hill Climb Results Here

Then to finish off the weekend was the Comox Valley Cycling Clubs Annual Mount Washington Hill Climb.  MIVA put in a strong showing with over 25% of the field.  The Weather was perfect for the climb today.  Overcast and cool with just a sprinkling of rain to help cool you off half way up.  The complete results shamelessly stolen from their Facebook Group page at the bottom of this post

With that it's time to start winding down our season just a bit.  By that I mean we only have Two events per week until the end of August.

Tomorrow night we will once again be meeting at the Nanaimo Ice Center for our Monday night development ride.

This Thursday will continue our Arrowsmith Bikes Hill Climb Series with the Witchcraft lake Climb.  Riders will once again be meeting up at the bottom of Kilpatrick Road next to the mailboxes and heading straight up.

Mount Washington Hill Climb; Hosted by Comox Valley Cycling Club

Results

Name Tme Category Mark Grant 53:51 A Doug Merrick 53:56 A Isaac Rankin 53:57 A Keiran Neilsen 54:15 A Sean Lunny 54:16 A Thomas Kalynuk 55:09 A Brett Whitehead 56:01 A Isaac van der Vliet 56:50 A Nicolas Parlee 57:39 A Nathan Walsh 58:35 A Wade Luksay 59:23 A Emily Johnston 59:24 A Dan Wilson 59:24 A Dave Opko 1:00:40 B Harry Reddin 1:01:12 A Juan Rodriguez 1:01:31 B Chris Pullman 1:01:33 B Jamie Saunders 1:03:14 B Ken Johnston 1:03:31 B Ray Wagner 1:03:45 B Jacob Yells, 1:04:48 A James Manders 1:05:28 B Jim Brown 1:05:36 B Kerry Hale 1:07:25 B Gary Argyle 1:09:00 C Lorrie Baildhar 1:09:08 C Jamie Olsen 1:09:20 C Chris Bowman 1:09:57 B Larissa Pelleterio 1:10:05 B E.J.Duncan 1:13:47 C Tim Everets 1:14:21 B Mort Allingham 1:15:34 B Ramon Ramirez 1:16:12 B Janine Bell 1:16:54 C Jeff Lawrence 1:19:17 B Fetze Elgersma 1:19:33 C Chris Perrault 1:20:55 C Wanda Reddin 1:21:08 C Patrick Burnham 1:23:18 B Evan Luksay 1:27:09 C Brynn Johnston 1:35:03 C Lisa McLeod 1:35:03 C

Crits and time trials are done, but the season is far from over. Wednesday night we are hosting the Mid Summers Cross race in Diver Lake park.  Entries are limited with only five spots left in the A race(at 5pm Monday afternoon)  If you're interested nows the time to sign up //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js We're still looking for help Tuesday evening around five pm to walk the course and rake up pine cones/move big branches etc... to prep the course.  I had a quick look around this afternoon and it's not too bad.  Four or five people with rakes and gloves and we can be done in less than hour.  Bring your bike and we can pre-ride afterwards.

Wednesday afternoon 3:30pm we're starting course set up.  We know we've got six people for sure, who else can come lend a hand.  The more the merrier.  Sign up Here.

Don't forget as well that in addition to my eternal love and respect, all volunteers are going to be entered into the draw for a set of Easton EC90s or Vision Trimax30s at our AGM

Cross isn't your thing?  That's ok, we also still have our Arrowsmith Bikes Hill Climb Series on Thursday August 10.  Meet at the mailboxes on Kilpatrick Road just off Jinglepot at 6pm.  It'll be a great warm up for the Mount Washington Hill climb on Sunday August 13th hosted by the Comox Valley Cycling Club  www.comoxvalleycycleclub.ca

It's limited to 55 in each category (A and B) so don't miss out, sign up! Hosted by Cross On The Rock and MIVA, held at Diver Lake on Wednesday August 9th.

Two categories: The B's start at 6:15 (beginner, intermediate) And the A's at 7:15. (Fast intermediates top 15, experts, advanced) no sandbagging.

Volunteers please contact miva.president@gmail.com, help will be needed during the race as well as setup/teardown. Each race is capped at 55 racers. No refunds. No wait list. No extra race added as we'd be pushing daylight. All pre-registration.

***Must provide valid Cycling BC number during online pre registration.***

https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=106959

We had two great cross racers at these two locations and we hope to have many more to come. In order to do so we need to repair the damage sustained by these races. Some of us have been out there two times repairing the damage but more is still required. Please help us out by NOT riding on these tracks.Also we will need some help on further repairs so if you can help that would be great. We are just waiting for a little bit drier weather. Please be ready to answer the call. Thanks for your cooperation and help.

What a great cyclocross race we hosted on Saturday, thanks to all involved and the weather remaining good. We had over 300 racers which is one of the best turnouts for Beban Park. A muddy and tough course was appreciated by most, loved by many and probably loathed by some too. HUGE THANKS TO: NORM THIBAULT - for his amazing ability to organize behind the scene, set up on the day of and just keep everything so dialed. Thanks Norm!!

RON HEWITSON - MIVA's Race Director once again calmly did all the necessary prep beforehand then organized all of us to set up, marshall and take down the course very efficiently Thanks again Ron, please keep it rolling.

RACERS - Thanks for making the effort to get here and for making this race a super fun, social and successful event. We look forward to seeing you back here next year. MIVA MEMBERS and ALL VOLUNTEERS - Without the generous time given by many this race could not go off as well as it did. Many helped set up, marshal and did take down. To all of you who stepped up,(you know who you are) thank you!

PLEASE VOLUNTEER WHEN YOU CAN - As we look ahead to next year please be ready to volunteer when you can. I believe we need more people to step up as many of you are starting to get burnt out. If you are not racing in a series why not vollie now and then? We will enjoy a profit from this race which helps fund most of our needs for putting on all of our other events throughout the year. More info. about the upcoming season will be rolled out soon in my next MIVA mail out.