Tonight the crit moves to Arbutus Meadows, hope to see you there! Directions here.

MIVA 44KM CRITERIUM 15051927 starters tonight -best this season. The pack stayed intact for a while The first prime was won by Nick Kupiak (Broad Street Cycles).with Janna Gillick (Cowichan Cycles) taking the women's sprint, the first of 5 primes for her. Sprint number 2, after 15 laps was won by Justin Mark (BCBR) with MIVA's Steve Crowley and Brodie Hay (Dr. Walker) in 2nd and 3rd. Positions. Just after this, a break of 7 went off the front and this proved to be the winning move. Nick, Justin and Aaron were joined by John Lam (MIVA), James and Mark Grant (Dr. Walker) and Sean Lunney (OBB). The septet gained 5 seconds every lap, and, just after sprint 3, won by Mark Grant, with Justin and James just behind, were coming up behind the main group when there was a crash involving Rob Bau and Mike Gill. Immediately, the lead group went into neutralised phase and eased off, letting the others pull away after reorganising themselves. Mike abandoned but Rob went on to finish. Sprint 5 at 5 laps to go, was taken byMark Grant, with brother James close behind. The main group avoided getting cught again as the leaders were playing cat and mouse, setting up for the finish. Final results saw Nick Kupiak outsprinting James and Mark Grant, with the top 6 completed by Aaron, Justin and John (well done Mr. Lam for staying with the break!) Janna got second in the main pack and won the women's category, with Cheryl Morch placing a very creditable category second only 2 places behind. Jessica Reynolds (Dr. Walker) completed the women's trio..

Thanks to the marshals and course set-up, take down crew. Also, a tip of the helmet to the riders for playing the safety card after the crash and when vehicles ventures onto the circuit.

Next week's race is at Arbutus Meadows and should be lots of fun, with a pre-race miss and out thrown in.

RESULTS

1 Nick Kupiak Broad Street Cycles 1h 13' 27” 2 James Grant Dr. Walker s.t. 3 Mark Grant Dr. Walker s.t. 4 Aaron Foos Yukon s.t. 5 Justin Mark BC Bike Race s.t. 6 John Lam MIVA s.t. 7 Sean Lunney Oak Bay Bikes s.t. 8 Mike Sevcov Cowichan Valley C.C. At 1' 29” 9 Janna Gillick Cowichan Cycles s.t. 1st. woman 10 Brodie Hay Dr. Walker s.t. 11 Sean De Pol MIVA s.t.

12 Shepherd Stewart, MIVA, s.t.

13 Cheryl M orch MIVA s.t. 2nd woman 14 Mike McCarney MIVA s.t. 15 Ronb Bau MIVA s.t. 16 Bill McMillan MIVA s.t. 17 Steve Crowley MIVA s.t. 18 Ron Hewitson MIVA At 1'45” 19 Jessica Reynolds Dr.Walker lapped, third woman NP Ken Olsen MIVA NP Iain Hay MIVA DNF Kim Sutherland MIVA DNF Patrick Burnham MIVA DNF Mike Gill MIVA DNF Menno Jongsma MIVA DNF Phil Birrer MIVA DNF Mark Wieler Oak Bay Bikes

Crit #2 in the series is set to go at Boxwood, registration 630pm, race goes at 7pm!  Contact Iain Hay ( roubaix5312 AT hotmail.com ) if you are able to act as a turn marshall.  Let's see another great group of riders show up!

Results and report for MIVA Criterium #1, 2015051235 Kilometres

The first MIVA criterium this season was held on the popular Boxwood circuit. There were 24 starters plus 2 youth riders. As is customary when there are youth entries, the first 3 laps were neutralised and then Abigail and Aiden Hare were off on their own for 20 laps. The seniors riding 32 laps- or 35 kilometres. Nick Kupiak immediately took off and set a fast pace, with the rest about 5 seconds behind and there he stayed until the first prime, which he took comfortably, with Ray Wagner (CVCC), Justin Mark (BCBR), and MIVA's John Lam in the next three places. By now, a group of eleven had detached itself from the rest of the riders and in a further ten laps had lapped everyone else, ten of whom formed a second pack and the rest straggling off the back. Just after the midway point, Peter Mac's car horn sounded another prime and Nick took this too from Ray, with Justin in third. The lead group stayed together with the second bunch mixed up with them but a lap down. And at the third prime, with seven laps left, Nick scored his third victory, tjhis time edging Justin, Brodie Hay (Dr. Walkers) and Janna Gillick who had been in the thick of the action for most of the race. The final prime, with 3three laps left was again taken by Nick who proved to be the strong man tonight. Justin again took second and Janna beat out Brodie for third spot. The sprint for the finish was hotly contested by the lead group with a few of the lapped riders in there too just to make judging more difficult. Nick beat out Justin by under half a wheel for the win, with Shepherd Stewart (MIVA) edging Ray Wagner for third. Brodie Hay cruised in for fifth just ahead of Normon Thibault (Frontrunners and Janna rounded out the top seven, taking the womens top placing.

RESULTS (first three laps neutralised) women points 1 Nicholas Kupiak, MIVA, 57' 12”   12 points

2, Justin Mar, BC Bike Rac, s.t.  10 pts

3, Shepherd Stewart, MIVA s.t., 9

4, Ray Wagner, Comox Valley C.C., s.t., 8 5, Brodie Hay, Dr. Walker, s.t., 7 6, Normon Thibault, Frontrunners, s.t, 6 7, Janna Gillick, Cowichan Cycles, s.t,  (F), 12 8, Sean Lunney, Oak bay Bikes, s.t.. 5 9, Sean De Pol, MIVA, s.t., 4 10, Mark Wieler, Oak Bay Bikes, s.t., 3 11, Mike Sevcov, Cowichan Valley C.C, s.t., 2 12, John Lam, MIVA,At 1 lap, 2 13, Bill McMillan, MIVA, at 1 lap, 2 14, Mike McCarney, MIVA, at 1 lap, 2 15, Iain Hay, MIVA, at 1 lap, 2 16, Rob Bau, MIVA, at 1 lap, 2 17, Jessica Reynolds, Dr. Walker, at 1 lap, (F), 10 18, Steve Crowley, MIVA, at 1 lap, 2 19, Patrick Burnham, MIVA, at 1 lap, 2 20, Phil Birrer, MIVA, at 1 lap, 2 21, Mike Gill, MIVA, Lapped, 2 22, Deb Epps, MIVA, Lapped, (F),  9 23, Jude Wilhelmsen, MIVA, Lapped, 2 DNF, Ken Olsen, MIVA, Mech. 1

Primes

1 Nick Kupiak, Ray Wagner, Justin Mark, John Lam 2 Nick Kupiak, Ray Wagner, Sean De Pol, Justin Mark, 3 Nick Kupiak, Justin Mark, Brodie Hay, Janna Gillick 4 Nick Kupiak, Justin Mark, Janna Gillick, Brodie Hay

Youth Race – 20 Laps

1, Aiden Hare, MIVA,  43' 16”, 12

2, Abigail Hare, MIVA, At 5”, 12

The 2015 Crit series will fire up May 12th and wrap up July 28th, hosting 12 events total.  Most events will be held at Boxwood, with 1 per month being held at Arbutus Meadows.  The start time is 630pm for the first event (registration at 600), with the remaining races starting at 700pm (registration at 630).  

Cost is $5/race, or you can purchase the all encompassing seasons pass for $50 online here.

A valid CyclingBC number MUST be provided to the timekeeper.  MIVA online membership is available here as well.  Rules and scoring will be published soon!