2023 MIVA memberships are now available. Sign up here!
We’ve kept the price at $20 plus fees for this year. To become a MIVA member, you must also have a Cycling BC membership, which can be purchased at the same time. Cycling BC memberships are available at 2022 rates until January 15th 2023.
Thanks to everyone who responded to our member survey. It’s useful for the board to know what our priorities should be when planning for the upcoming year. Here are the results of the multiple choice questions.
We’d also like to thank everyone who took the time to write thoughtful answers to the open questions. We won’t be sharing any of those answers here, but they generated some great discussion at our last board meeting, and over in our Discord.
Registration is now open for this year’s MIVA Unpaved gravel fondo. Head to www.mivaunpaved.com for details, and to sign up today!
For 2022 we’ve partnered with the Nanaimo Brain Injury Society, and each entry means more money going to this great cause!
In a week of wildly fluctuating weather we got lucky and couldn't have asked for better conditions for the first Criterium on Boxwood Road in two years. Ten racers took the line for a 30 minute plus three laps race around our 1.1km course. Several attempts at breaking away from the main pack but were all quickly absorbed by the main bunch, finishing in a tight Sprint for the finish, with long time regular Iain Hay showing everyone how it's done. Youth rider Jack Mace managed to hang with the bunch for the majority of the race, dropping back to recover then hopping back in to finish only 2 laps down at 16 years of age.
Our good luck with the weather held for Thursday night’s 15k time trial, with the day’s rain finishing and giving way to the occasional patch of blue sky. The road conditions were still definitely wet and the riders stayed cool. Six came out to race the TT but only Jack Mace took up the offer of running an extra 3 km after the 15 km on the bike setting a total time of 47:24.508. Jason Basaur was the fastest cyclist with a time of 22:39.216. Hopefully as the weather warms we’ll see more people coming out to test themselves against the clock.
We’ll have to wait a little longer for the start of our road season. Heavy rain and wind here in Nanaimo would mean tonight's ride would be no fun, so the board has taken the decision to cancel this evening’s ride.
