3 Heat Series with Patrick Burnham v. Mike Gill heat 1. Patrick Burnham by 5 lengths
heat 2. Patrick Burnham by 1.5 lengths
heat 3. Patrick Burnham by 2.5 lengths
The threat of rain kept a few riders away tonight, as did injuries and race tapering, but 22 still showed up to race with a bit of a nasty headwind on the way out...but no rain thankfully. We welcomed 3 newcomers to the TT series, Kristy-Lee Mighton, David Thomas, and Peter Mogg. Anita Gillmore and Paul Callow made their season debut as well. For the skimmers: Tonights results 2015 TT Series Standings 15k Course Records
Even with the wind, we had yet another new COURSE RECORD, this time it was Meghan Gillmore breaking the Youth Female CR with a blistering 28:28 (her former best time was 29:10), a 42 second improvement! The mens race was tight once again, with only 8.2 seconds separating Don Gillmore and Paul Auton. Nick Kupiak rounded out the podium with (another) PB of 21:24. Joel Lutz fresh off an Alcatraz/Half Ironman double header set a PB of 24:07. Newcomer Peter Mogg put in an impressive debut on the course coming in with 21:57, good for 4th best time ever on the 15k course! In the female race Janna Gillick stayed undefeated with a 24:21, and in the youth male Aiden Hare took the win with a 30:42 time.
1 Course Record Set Tonight: Youth Female: Meghan Gillmore 28:28 (29:11 was previous mark)
3 Lifetime PBs on this 15k Course set tonight Nick Kupiak 21:24 Joel Lutz 24:07 Meghan Gillmore 28:28
3 Seasons Best Times (ridden 2 or more 15k's this year) Nick Kupiak 21:24 (21:36) Joel Lutz 24:07 (24:11) Simon Weber 25:12 (25:15)
The season standings shuffled a bit tonight, with Janna taking over top spot on the Female side and Paul Auton taking over first in the Male side. The winners in all 4 categories are awarded the custom designed MIVA Trophies at the end of the season, special thanks to Angellos Glaros of Glaros Studios for creating some of the nicest trophies anywhere, and for always being a huge supporter of MIVA.
The BAR (Best All-Around Rider) award is the old OBB WHEELERS trophy (the one you can drink from), and is awarded to the top female and top male rider. How this is determined is your top time in all 3 distances (15k, 20k, 40k) is totalled and your overall average speed is calculated. Fastest average speed wins. In 2014 Don Gillmore won with an average of 43.25, and Janna Gillick with a 36.95km/hr average.
Special thanks to the Nanaimo RCMP for patrolling Nanaimo River Road tonight, and to the City of Nanaimo for loaning out some 'Event Ahead' signs. Thank you to Peter McCaffery for acting as holder for the start line. Thank you to volunteers Lee and Tamara Zavarise (and kids) for acting as turnaround marshalls and cheering on everyone with cowbells. Note that volunteers receive 5 points in the standings (to be added at the end, as Webscorer is working on a way to add them manually).
Next week is a 40k! Pre reg link here.
Next up this week: FRI 6/19 Match Sprints on Maxey Road 6pm MON 6/22 Beginner Ride NIC 6pm TUES 6/23 BOXWOOD Crit 7pm WEDS 6/24 Intermediate/Advanced Group Ride OBB 6pm THURS 6/25 40k TT
ELIMINATION RACE 1. Sean Lunney, OBB; 2. Ray Wagner CVCC
CRITERIUM RESULTS 1 Nick Kupiak Broad Street Cycles 45 12 pts. 2 Aaron Milan CVCC 9 10 3 Ray Wagner CVCC 8 9 4 Sean De Pol MIVA 3 8 5 Sean Lunney Oak Bay Bikes 2 7 6 Justin Mark BC Bike Race 2 6 DNF Janna Gillick Cowichan Cycles 0 2
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!
Here are the Industrial Plastics and Paint Criterium Points to date after 5 races. Thank you to all of the volunteers in making the series great, and to Janna for compiling the points. MIVA Criterium Scoring (10-June-2015)
