Mid Island Velo Association was very well represented at the Beban Park and Bowen Park events this weekend, It was great to see our members in their prominent club jerseys and shorts mixing it up in both races and to see Rob Russell get a well-deserved third place in Sunday's intermediate event. The riders' presence and the volunteer efforts to prepare Saturday's Beban Park course have ensured that MIVA is now regarded as an integral part of the Island cycling scene.

The Cross on the Rock Mid-Island Championship, organised by MIVA on Saturday, went off very successfully. Despite having to make some major course changes, due to an unscheduled dog show, everything was ready for pre-riding by 9am. Our great volunteers, aided by Normon's crew, went out of their way to ensure that there were no glitches. Many of the one hundred and thirty nine riders (third largest turnout for an Island CX race made  favourable comments on the course, especially the intestine with its gradient changes and its variety of wide and tight turns.

This was MIVA's first involvement organising a cyclo-cross event and the club members who volunteered their time can be proud of the outcome.

There will be a report on the race on the Cross on the Rock web site. For now, the results are here.

Here is the revised course for Saturday's Island Cyclo-cross Championship. At 3.25 km, it is longer than most courses but has a number of fast sections. To best see all the details, click on map options (top left) and then on "hybrid". The map can be enlarge by using the plus sign on the grid at left. For a full description of the changes, scroll down below the map.

A bunch of MIVA and other volunteers got the lion's share of the course set-up done for tomorrow's Island Championship. Despite having to make several modifications to the course (safety concerns, big dog show in large barn, big soccer game tomorrow, etc.

Normon Thibault brought the Frontrunners trailer complete with all the necessary cones, stakes, Rebar and caution tape on site in Mid-afternoon and stayed for a while to help, even coming back later in the day to help out with the bottom end of the course.

By 7pm our band of stalwarts had all the main course features completed, with a smalll amount of work to do tomorrow. The major task at the start of set up was figuring out the exact layout of the intestine but, after several walk throughs, many reviews of the plan and much insertion and removal of Rebar, John Hannon got itr right by riding his bike round.

A heartfelt thanks to all the volunteers who made the set-up that much quicker and easier.

For all those who have been waiting for the weekend's technical guide, here it is.