Too cold and wet to ride. 14°C and rain? Sorry, but that's trainer weather. http://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/nanaimo/v9r/hourly-weather-forecast/47168

A good turn out for tonight’s time trial. The east wind helped with the uphill grind to the turn and the return descent made the wind more bearable. Steve Crowley surprised himself and a number of others by winning in his best time of 23'00” with Steve Struthers just four seconds back in second place and Hub City Tri Club's Reagan Lovig 3^rd.  A further minute back. Other notable rides were Phil Birrer's personal best in fourth, Dave Steen's 24' 45” for fifth place, and eight year old Ian Gilmore’s forty minute ride. There were two fixies tonight – Patrick Burnham was joined by Russell Berg on his new Fuji. Thanks to Katy Wallington for computer timing, Kyle Waring for back up timing and holding, and Don Gillmore for marshaling the turn. It's heartening to see the number of volunteers giving up their rides to help out.

-Peter

Despite the rain in Nanaimo eight riders turned up tonight to contest the two races. The weather in Nanoose was much dryer and rain held off until after the completion of the evening's events.  

24 lap elimination race

1. Ray Wagner, CVCC
2.  Nick Kupiak, MIVA

The 8 starters were to sprint every three laps, with the last over the line being eliminated. The final two riders sprinted for the win after a further two laps.

30 lap points race

sprints every 5 laps with 5, 3, 2 points for top three. Doubl;e points on 15^th. And 30^th. Lap

The pack stayed together for the majority of the race, except for Mike Gill, who dropped back and used the race as pack training each time he was lapped.  Strong man of the race was Mark Wiler, who had 18 points by the half way point. N ick Kupiak was a close second with 14 points. Then, in the second half of the event, Ray Wagner amassed 15  to add to his first half total of 5 but Mark won a further 10 points to end up with 28 points. Other points scorers were Bill McMillan, Steve Crowley and Brodie Hay.

RESULTS

	Sprints >>>	1	2	3	4	5	6	Tot.	Pos.
Mark Wieler	Arrowsmith	5	3	10	2	2	6	28	1st.
Ray Wagner	CVCC	3	2		5		10	20	2nd.
Nick Kupiak	MIVA		5	6	3			14	3rd.
Bill McMillan	MIVA	2		4			4	10	4th.
Steve Crowley	MIVA					5		5	5th.
Brodie Hay	Vipyrs					3		3	6th.
Fred Hodgson	MIVA							0	7th.
Mike Gill								0	8th.

Thanks to Iain Hay for set up and take down. By the way, welcome to new MIVA member Fred Hodgson who rode for Symmetrics some years ago and has just returned to competition after looking after his family, who were also here..

Another great night for the MIVA time trial series, and another great turnout!  A total of 15 riders came out to ride the 40km course tonight, with some (Chris Wilberg) even coming from the mainland just to ride the TT.  That bodes well for future attendance this year as the well established MIVA TT Series is attracting riders from all over.  After 4 races in 2013, we have had 67 racers out already.  At the same time last year, we had 35 racers out.  A 91% increase already, with many regulars who haven't missed a race yet.The youth race was a 20km and was well attended by regulars Abigail Hare, Ian Gilmore, and Aiden Hare.  All 3 rode hard on the challenging course, and Aiden put down an amazing time of 46:53, shaving over a full minute off of last weeks time!

The female division was won by Rose Houle in 1:14:10, with 2nd place going to Sarah Davidson, who is fresh off a fast half marathon time and should keep getting faster and faster times as the season rolls on.

In the mens division, Don Gilmore won his 4th consecutive TT of the season with a very fast 58:29 over the 40k distance.  Taking 2nd place was Chris Wilberg in 1:05:56, and third place being Reagan Lovig with 1:08:21.  Mr.Fixie himself, Patrick Burnham, rode out splits of 34:45/34:46 , BOTH of which were faster than his 20k alone last week, very impressive!  The rest of the field all came charging in with solid times, well done Angellos Glaros, Glen Gordon, Paul Callow, John Tillie, Jason Hare, and Mark Weiler.

All of the results can be found HERE via Webscorer.  Great stats on there for those of you who want to see your average speed, as well as lap splits!

The winner of the MIVA socks tonight was Patrick Burnham, wear your MIVA kit and you have a good shot at free stuff!

NEXT week's TT is a 15k, same time, same place.

Short video of Don Gilmore's finish IMG_4182

The MIVA Thursday time trial course(s) will continue to start west of South Forks Road as the west part of Nanaimo River Road is quieter and safer, the recreational vehicle traffic being much less.  Now that the evenings are lighter longer, start will be at 7PM until late August.