23 racers showed up to climb the 160m debut in the 2015 MIVA Hill Climb Championship Series, in addition to 4 volunteers, and another 5 spectators. To put this in perspective, last year 11 people raced this! In fact searching through the database* I couldn't find any with more than 15 riders attending. THANK YOU to this amazing community for helping to grow our sport and supporting our events. Hill Climb #1 started at Kilpatrick/JinglePot, went up to Jameson, to Northwood, then on the last unnamed road on the right the final push made people earn their finish line photo (Thank you Patrick Burnham). TT Champ Paul Auton made the trek up from Mill Bay, and the Comox/Courtenay cycling community was well represented by Evan and Wade Luksay.

RESULTS HERE!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aiden Hare led off and pushed hard up the final pitch to notch under 12 minutes in 11:59 (13:41 last year).  Evan Luksay shocked the entire field as he was 2nd last to start, but flew up the hill in 9:49 good for 11th OVERALL out of the 23 starters! Abigail Hare was the lone youth female participant, even after going significantly off course she showed her mental toughness as she backtracked then hammered HARD up the hill to the crowd cheering her in.  It would have been easy to turn around and call it a mistake, but she went full throttle, proving her mental strength that's been built up with her heavy swim training.  Next week Abigail and her dad Jason Hare will tackle an open water swim from Canada to France.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the female category, reigning hill climb champ Lorrie Baildham narrowly squeaked by Kiyomi Schulz by a scant 0.6 seconds to win her category in 9:22.4 seconds.  Rounding out the podium was Lesley Anderson in 10 minutes flat.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the male category Joel De Schiffart hammered home a KOM worthy 7:11 in his hill climb debut, narrowly beating Criterium champion Nick Kupiak (7:17) and Paul Auton (7:24).

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thank you to Jason Hare, Patrick Burnham, and Cheryl Morch for volunteering tonight, and to the Landry's and Kubacki's for cheering everyone in.  Patricks photo's can be viewed here (they're awesome).

Next week is Hill Climb 2 up Nanaimo Lakes Road, pre register here.  As this race starts from near the intersection of Wakesiah/Nanaimo Lakes Road, we suggest you park at Colliery Dams and ride the half block over (or just ride to the race).  This is a 7.1km climb with an elevation gain of 241m. It is called 'Col du Wakesiah' on Strava, link here.

If you are able to assist in timing or sending the riders off next week please let us know.

MIVA HILL CLIMB CHAMPS LINK: http://bikeracing.ca/2015-hill-climb-championships/ Note: series championship is on total points of the 5 races.

*not really a database

PARTING SHOT: Carnage at the summit...

25 riders showed up to take on the Oak Bay Bikes TT Series SEASON FINALE.  A proper series write up will follow... Tonights results HERE 15k Course Records HERE OBB Series Standings HERE Just your 15k times from 2015 HERE

Perfect temps and zero wind made for a fast (and awesome) final time trial on Nanaimo River Road. This 15k course has 4 course records (one for each category).  THREE WERE BROKEN TONIGHT!

First up, Janna Gillick took down the course record in 23:09 (prev 23:21) to clinch the series championship as well, not a bad night.  Lorrie Baildham's injury is long gone as she flew at a 36.1 avg speed for second, followed by series runner up Kiyomi Schulz @ 25:24.

In the mens race Don Gillmore rode a fast 20:41 to clinch his BAR (Best All-Around Rider) award zipping along at 43.5km/hr.  Patrick Burnham slammed home a PB in 22:31, attaining his season goal of averaging 40km/hr over this hilly course.  Justin Mark showed up late (its his birthday we will let it slide!) and still managed to place third with a 22:36, just 9 seconds ahead of Joel Lutz.

The youth female course record was set tonight by the ever improving Meghan Gillmore with a 28:05 (prev 28:46).  Her first 15k race this year was in 31:51, showing a remarkable improvement.

The youth male record also was set tonight by her brother Ian Gillmore riding to a 28:42 finish, the former record was held by Youth Male points leader Aiden Hare @ 29:38.  I'm already looking forward to seeing these two raise the bar even more next season.

3 COURSE RECORDS SET Youth Male: Ian Gillmore Youth Female: Meghan Gillmore Female: Janna Gillick

14 SEASONS BEST TIMES SET Janna Gillick Lorrie Baildham Anita Gillmore Lisa McLeod Sandy Przada Patrick Burnham Joel Lutz Mark Overton Derek Steel Murray Walters Corey Friesen Ross Palfery Ian Gillmore Meghan Gillmore

10 PERSONAL BESTS (LIFETIME) Janna Gillick Anita Gillmore Lisa McLeod Sandy Przada Patrick Burnham Joel Lutz Mark Overton Derek Steele Murray Walters Ross Palfery

Thank you to the Zavarise family for again volunteering at the turn around and ringing cowbells. Big thank you to Jason Hare for timing again!

Now with our Crit Series and TT Series over, its time for the August Special....HILL CLIMB CHAMPS.  5 races, 5 different locations.  First one is next Thursday @ Jameson Road.  This link has all the info, and the pre reg!

A proper season TT round up will be hashed out in the next few days!  For those of you in Nanaimo, see you at Oak Bay Bikes tomorrow (7pm) for a social gathering, it'll be great to catch up!

The 2015 Crit series has come to a close, thank you again to our sponsor Industrial Plastics and Paint for your support this year. The results are located here MIVA Criterium Scoring (FINAL)

Nick Kupiak took home his first Crit series title with a dominating season.  The previous winners of this award have been Warren Muir, Ian Smith, Justin Mark, and Iain Hay.  Second place went to the ever improving Brodie Hay, and third to Sean DePol (who rode every race!).

Janna Gillick took home her 4th Crit title with a convincing points lead over second place Angelina Landry (in her first crit seasn) and Jessica Reynolds rounded out the podium.

Evan Luksay and Abigail Hare led the youth categories.

Over our 12 race season, we had 50 different riders come out, and 186 "races raced".  The average number or crit racers on any given night was 17.  Record turnout was 28!

Special thank you to Peter McCaffery for timing the crits, to Iain Hay (and crew) for volunteering/setup/takedown every race, to Janna Gillick for compiling the scoring for the series, and to all of you volunteers who came out to keep our rides safe.  THANK YOU to all of you racers who came out week after week to keep building up the Crit series.

We're already looking forward to next year, and looking for input from all of you.  Look for a survey coming next week, we want to hear from you.

RESULTS1 Justin Mark BCBR 1h 06' 45” 12 2 Brodie Hay Dr. Walkers s.t. J 10 3 John Lam MIVA s.t. 9 4 Aaron Dussault Russ Hays/Aspen Inns s.t. 8 5 David Beggs Cycle Therapy s.t. 7 6 Ray Wagner CVCC At 4” 6 7 Mike McCarney MIVA s.t. 5 8 Paul Thompson MIVA/OBB At 6” 4 9 Janna Gillick Cowichan Cycles s.t. F 12 10 Tom Elliot Cycle Therapy At 9” 3 11 Mke Sevcov Cowichan Valley CC s.t. 2 12 Ken Olsen MIVA At 15” 2 13 Sean De Pol MIVA s.t. 2 14 Mark Wieler MIVA/OBB s.t. 2 15 Angelina Landry MIVA s.t. F 10 16 Patrick Burnham MIVA At 16” 2

PRIMES 1st 1. Brodie Hay, 2. Tom Elliot, 3. Justin Mark F 1. Janna Gillick, 2. Angelina Landry 2nd 1. Tom Elliot, 2. Paul Thompson, 3. Justin Mark F 1. Janna Gillick, 2. Angelina Landry 3rd. 1. Ray Wagner, 2. Patrick Burnham, 3. Brodie Hay F 1. Angelina Landry, 2. Janna Gillick 4th. 1. Brodie Hay, Justin Mark, 3. Tom Elliot F 1. Janna Gillick, 2. Angelina Landry

The last crit of the season goes tonight at Boxwood, 7pm (register 630).  There will be some draw prizes to send off the series in style. See below for the Crit standings going into tonight's race.  Some jostling to be done for podium spots!

MIVA Criterium Scoring (21-Jul-2015)