MIVA TUESDAY CRITERIUM Boxwood Circuit, August 9^th., 2011

A good race to watch this evening. Immediately after the second neutral lap, Warren Muir and Rob Russell snuck off the front of the pack and steadily gained twelve seconds per lap while the pack watched them pull away. By lap twelve, the duo had a lead of forty seconds and worked steadily to increase this to over a minute by lap twenty-eight. In the bunch, Mike Sevcov was trying to organise a chase but those who wanted to work were interspersed with others who were just along for the ride and the gap to the break continued to increase. By lap thirty, Muir and Russell had the pack in their sights and after a further three laps overtook the flagging group. At this point, Otto Kamstra, visiting from the mainland, managed to gap the rest of the bunch and was able to stay away for a further three laps. As the bell rang for the final sprint to the line, Kamstra was still about a hundred metres off the front but during the final lap, Muir towed the pack up to the Whistler rider and overtook him just before the line. However, Kamstra jumped again and just edged Warren to take the chequered flag and third place overall. Muir and Russell being a lap up on the rest of the group, took first and second.

Thanks to Kit McCaffery for registration and bell, to Sharon Hay, lap board, and to Iain Hay and Rob Russell for course set up and take down.

There are only five weeks left in MIVA's weekly time trial and criterium series. Reminder: to qualify for series awards, riders must have participated in seven or more events in either series. The top five results will count towards your final placing. Awards will be given out at an evening social, later this fall. MIVA RACE SCHEDULE

Aug 11^th. To end of season

Date	Event	Location	Distance	Time
08/11/11	ITT	Nanaimo River Rd.	20km	1900h.
08/16/11	Criterium	Boxwood Circuit	60 min.	1830h.
08/18/11	Hill climb	Kilpatrick/Benson View	3.2km	1900h.
09/23/11	Criterium	Boxwood	60 min.	1830h.
09/25/11	ITT	N.R.R.	20km	1830h.
08/30/11	Criterium	Boxwood		1830h.
09/01/11	Hill climb	Hwy 19/College Dr.	3km	1830h.
09/06/11	Crit. Champ.	Boxwood	60 min.	1830h.
09/08/11	Hill climb	Duomont/Wiegles	5.2km	1830h.
10/08/11	Hill climb Champ.	Duomont/Wiegles	5.2km	1100h.

Four riders represented MIVA at the BC Provincial Time Trial Championship in Duncan on Saturday. Chris Cameron  and Charlene Hay rode in the masters events, looking great in their MIVA clothing. and Brodie Hay succeeded in winning the silver in the under 13 youth category. Iain Hay also represented the club well, placing second in the Master B category. (results on our 'RESULTS' page)

Brodie's medal is  the first one for the club and a sign of good things to come.

The popular Nanaimo to Victoria ride is not occurring this year because the moving closure so necessary for safety could not be provided by the police. However, in its place, OBB is hosting the Victoria 2 Cowichan 150km ride. For details go here.

Departure Bay Road , Nanaimo. 11/08/04

Beautiful weather *(24deg. C., no wind)

11 starters for this year's first MIVA hill climb. The Departure Bay/Uplands Road hill is a long drag with no real gradient changes until the 11% kick about 400 meters from the finish. The riders were seeded according to perceived ability and past results on the hill.

First to depart after starter Leigh Blaney's command, was Vicki Boyd, Frontrunners, who is in the final stages of preparing for an Ironman triathlon. She was expected to do about 9'30” for the ascent, but surprised everyone except herself by doing 9'00”! Husband Shawn did catch her on the climb and posted a personal best of 7'23” which beat the old record by 5 seconds. This was a portent of things to come and eventually, five riders beat the old mark.

Seventh rider off, Rob Russell. Beat Shawn's time by 6 seconds but this was eclipsed three times in rapid succession with Last year's winner and current record holder Stefan Jacobsen of Frontrunners posting the new record time of 6'52”.

With only Don Gillmore left to finish, the rest of the riders waited at the finish to see if he would eclipse Stefans's performance but, as the seconds clicked by, it became increasingly clear that tonight was Jacobsen's. Gillmore eventually finished, a very creditable second, in 7' 02”.

In the women's event, Janna Gillick HCTC, matched her last year's time of 8'27” to win the women's event.

Thanks to Kit McCaffery for registration, to Leigh Blaney (starter), Ross Palfery (turn marshal.), and Gary Ceroome (holder),