Crit #4 Recap (May 3, 2016)

(by Peter)City Cycles Boxwood Criterium #4 160503

The threatened rain held off for tonight's 40 lap criterium and 23 starters, including 3 new cadets from Courtenay and a couple of independent seniors, lined up for the 7pm start. Perennial commisaire Peter McCaffery, aided by trainee official Julian from VIU announced that this was to be his final assignment (yeh – right!) and that following tonight's race, he would finally be retiring as a working judge and that future volunteering at MIVA's events would be on an ad hoc basis. The first few laps of the criterium went at an almost pedestrian pace – quite a change from last week's record speed of over 43kph - but the tempo soon increased as a number of breakaway attempts came from the visiting TAG youth riders and also from Nick Kupiak, Justin Mark (BRBC), James Sage (MIVA) and Daniel Wilson (Independent). Janna Gillick (ATAC) was also at the front for much of the time and actually took second in two of the intermediate sprints. The first three primes were won by Kupiak, who was clearly a cut above the other competitors and with 13 laps to go, the Broad Street Cycles rider finally managed to create a small gap of 9 seconds but he was hauled in within three laps and the bunch stayed together until the final sprint, with independent Tyler McCallen taking the 4th. Prime on the way. Nick timed his final effort beautifully and crossed the line a couple of seconds ahead of the main bunch, with nearly all the pack posting the same time and only four riders losing one or more laps. Although no-one reported abandoning the race, some riders didn't finish so any riders who quit the course, get in touch with Peter at pakamac@gmail.com So we can finalise the results. Thanks to our marshals and to those who set out the circuit in the absence of Iain Hay, who is recovering from his nasty crash last week. RESULTS: 1 Nicholas Kupiak Broad St. Cycles 01/10/03 s2 2 Isaac Van der Vliet TAG Cycling At 2” cad 3 Dr. John Lam MIVA st MA 4 James Sage MIVA st 5 Janna Gillick ATAC st W 6 st 7 Mike Sevcov Cycle Therapy st MC 8 st 9 Mike McCarney MIVA st MB 10 st 11 James Grant TAG Cycling st jun 12 st 13 Justin Mark Bike Race BC st s2 14 st 15 Sean De Pol MIVA st MB 16 Tyler McCallon Independent st S4 17 Bill McMillan MIVA st MC 18 Dr. Steve Crowley MIVA st MB 19 Robin Dutton Coal City Cycles At 31 “MA 20 Ayden Houle MIVA At 1 lap cad 21 Lee Zavarise MIVA At 1 lap MB 22 Trent Carter CVCC lapped cad 23 Devon Norris Cycle Therapy lapped S4

unplaced Mark Wieler? Rock City Cycles/MIVA MB Ben Katerberg TAG Cycling cad Kevin Park CVAA S3 Daniel Wilson Independent MB Mark Grant TAG Cycling Jun