Easter weekend is obviously a busy one for everyone, so we're going to move the technical date to later in the month. But it's going to allow for more dates on the practical! So, let's try the following dates as registration for this week is very low.

April 10th, April 16th, April 24th (Victoria - Practical)

April 11th, April 18th, April 25th (Nanaimo - Practical)

April 12th, April 19th, April 26th (Campbell River - Practical)

Technical is going to be running on either April 29th or May 6th. Note, this is now a SUNDAY to accommodate local bicycle dealers.

Colin Campbell sincerely apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused, but I want the largest turn out possible to these courses!!! Please let your friends that would be great with children and love cycling know about this course! It's FREE people!!!! How often do you get anything like this for free! :)

Thanks again for all of your wonderful support in this program. It's going to be a ton of fun for both the instructors and the children!

This morning a representative from Pie in The Sky pro team was on the Duke Point Highway. He had been visiting relatives in Ladysmith and had evidently lost his way looking for the Departure Bay Ferry. He happened to pass the lead group in the Duke Point Road Race and followed them for a while. When he glanced down at his speedometer, he couldn't believe his eyes - those guys were moving faster than Floyd Landis after half a dozen beers and a rum and coke. To cut a long story short, he stopped at the line  where Peter was waiting to judge the finish and, after getting the riders' names,  said that he would shortly be offering them a contract to ride with his squad although he stated that he would have to find better domestiques as his present support riders would not even be able to service the MIVA riders as they were simply too fast! He said that his name was Aunley A. Rumar and that he was returning to Europe onMonday. Needless to say, we will be impatiently awaiting his email.

RESULTS

	Name	Club	Cat	time
1	Ian Smith	MIVA	2	40' 55”
2	Charles Hamer	MIVA	3	at 2”
3	Doug Merrick	MIVA/CVCC	2	s.t.
4	Keegan Metheringham	Ind.	4	at 4' 05”
5	Phillip Birrer	MIVA	4	at 4' 07”
6	Dave Steen	MIVA	ME	at 7' 17”
7	Kyle Waring	MIVA	3	at 9' 17”
DNF	Iain Hay	MIVA	3	DNF (flat)
15 kilometre time trial
1	Brodie Hay	MIVA	CAD	29' 07”

There was snow on the ground and a lot more on Mount Benson at 7am in the morning but by the 11am start time, it had turned

into a beautiful sunny but cool morning. The eight starters rolled

off easily and for the first few kilometres they stayed together but

on the first ascent of Jacks Hill a group of four including Doug

Merrick, Charles Hamer Ian Smith and Iain Hay upped the pace

and caused a split. Phil Birrer and Keegan Metheringham hovered

a couple of hundred metres back but Dave Steen and Kyle Waring

were already a good way back. The lead four kept up the pressure,

losing Hay to a flat just before the half way mark, and eventually

left Birrer and Metheringham trailing almost half a kilometre down

with Steen (now in his usual time trial mode) chasing steadily and

Waring, showing his state of unfitness, bringing up the rear.

In the final sprint, Ian Smith took a couple of seconds out of Charles

and Doug, who finished in that order. Keegan out sprinted Phil for

fourth and Dave managed to stay away from Kyle to take sixth.

Brodie Hay decided to ride a fifteen kilometre time trial to see how

he had improved since last Fall and beat his previous best time by

almost a minute and a half.

Everyone had good things to say about the course so, if the Duke

Point Terminal is still closed, there will be a three lap race on the

same circuit in two weeks.

We recently posted on our web site and our Facebook page a request for unwanted cycling clothing, shoes etc.for aboriginal riders. I am sending the unsold MIVA 2011 clothing plus a bunch of other jerseys, shorts, jackets etc. off to the programme on Friday next. if any of you have unwanted stuff in good condition and clean, please bring it round to my place or drop off at Oak Bay Bikes before Friday. Thanks a lot in anticipation of your generosity.