OBB TT Series Race #7 - Results and Recap

A beautiful night for a 15k TT brought 31 racers out, our 2nd largest turnout.   Once again, many PB's were set as our diligent group of racers here in Nanaimo (and area) keep improving and putting the hammer down!  A special congrats to Wendy Hicks and Valerie Capewell, well done for coming out and racing their first ever time trial! For the skimmers! Race results for tonight here 2015 OBB Series Standings here 15k Course Records here

TWO COURSE RECORDS were broken tonight, as Janna Gillick clocked a 23:21 to lower her previous mark by 4 seconds!  Aiden Hare also smashed the youth male course record tonight with a  29:44, the previous record was 30:02 held by Ian Gillmore.  Abigail Hare rode her lifetime best 29:11, just 1 second shy of the youth female course record held by Meghan Gillmore.

There was a tight finish at the top of the leaderboard as both Don Gillmore and Paul Auton topped 43km/hr average, with Don taking the win by under 5 seconds.  Come out to the Time Trials, the results speak for themselves.  96% of racers tonight improved on their previous seasons best time!  Mike Gill was a micro 1.3 seconds off his seasons best too or we'd have had a clean sweep, impressive everyone.  A big congrats to Carole Phee as well, one year ago she raced a 42:20, and tonight she clocked a 30:59, over 11 minutes knocked off over just 15k is incredible Carole!

2 Course Records Set Tonight:

Female: Janna Gillick 23:21 (previous mark Janna Gillick 23:25) Youth Male: Aiden Hare 29:44 (previous mark Ian Gillmore 30:02)

14 Lifetime PBs on this 15k Course set tonight Janna Gillick 23:21 Kiyomi Shulz 25:23 Lulu McCallum 25:38 Deb Epps 27:00 Tamara Zavarise 29:06 Carole Phee 30:59 Paul Auton 20:50 Nick Kupiak 21:35 Kim Sutherland 24:33 Matthys Redelinghuys 24:35 Mark Overton 24:39 Lee Zavarise 25:24 Fred Rockwell 28:35 Ross Palfery 30:23

22 Seasons Best Times (ridden 2 or more 15k's this year)

Don Gillmore 20:45 (21:48) Paul Auton 20:50 (21:31) Nick Kupiak 21:35 (21:36) Justin Mark 22:18 (22:51) Patrick Burnham 22:46 (23:08) Orphee Bernard 23:13 (23:20) Jason Hare 24:26 (25:14) Kim Sutherland 24:33 (25:35) Matthys Redelinghuys 24:35 (25:50) Lee Zavarise 25:24 (25:36) Fred Rockwell 28:35 (30:12) Ross Palfery 30:23 (30:58) Janna Gillick 23:21 (23:30) Kiyomi Shulz 25:23 (26:19) Lulu McCallum 25:38 (26:26) Deb Epps 27:00 (27:11) Tamara Zavarise 29:05 (30:21) Carole Phee 30:58 (32:38) Abigail Hare 29:11 (31:27) Meghan Gillmore 30:18 (31:51) Aiden Hare 29:43 (31:05) Ian Gillmore 31:49 (34:11) IMPRESSIVE!

Thank you to Colleen Wtorek for biking out to the turnaround to marshall, and to Veronica Capewell and Matt Evans for acting as holders and assisting in spotting.

Next week is a 15k again, see you then!