MIVA is hosting the final event in this year's Island Cup Series. Date is June 30th.and venue is the popular Boxwood Circuit in Nanaimo. Registration open at 8.30am; C category at 9am, B at 10am, and A at 11am.
SERIES POINTS TO DATE Women
| Katy Condon | Frontrunners | 68 |
| Janna Gillick | MIVA | 56 |
| Colleen Wtorek | MIVA | 40 |
| Sue Handel | MIVA | 30 |
| Lorrie Bailtham | MIVA | 27 |
| Rhona Lettau | MIVA | 22 |
| Cheryl Morch | MIVA | 22 |
| Nancy Patterson | MIVA | 21 |
| Charlene Hay | MIVA | 17 |
| Vicki Boyd | MIVA | 12 |
Men
| Bryan Rehill | MIVA | 59 |
| Shawn Boyd | MIVA | 46 |
| Charles Hamer | MIVA | 41 |
| Corey Friesen | MIVA | 27 |
| Gareth Slocombe | MIVA | 27 |
| Matthew Allardyce | MIVA | 25 |
| Paul Auton | Cycle Therapy | 24 |
| Patrick Burnham | MIVA | 23 |
| Iain Hay | MIVA | 21 |
| Dave Steen | BCMCA/MIVA | 21 |
Youth
Brodie Hay 41
Mykelti Berg 20
RESULTS 40km
| Don Gillmore | MIVA | 56' 01" | M |
12 |
|
| Bryan Rehill | MIVA | 1h 01' 18" | M |
10 |
p.b. |
| Steve Crowley | MIVA | 1h 02' 50" | M |
9 |
p.b. |
| Steve Price | MIVA | 1h 05' 14" | M |
8 |
|
| Janna Gillick | MIVA | 1h 06' 15" | F |
12 |
p.b. |
| Gareth Slocombe | MIVA | 1h 08' 53" | M |
8 |
p.b. |
| Patrick Burnham | MIVA | 1h 10' 43" | M |
7 |
p.b. |
| Katy Condon | MIVA | 1h 12' 19" | F |
10 |
p.b. |
20KM
| Iain Hay | MIVA | 33' 10" | M |
2 |
p.b. |
20km
MIVA 40KM I.T.T.
Nanaimo River Road
June 21st.
It was a near-perfect night with no wind, 18 deg. C. and high humidity.
As a result, seven of the participants did personal bests for the distance,
including two who were riding the distance for the first time. Don
Gillmore did his fastest 40 km for the year and was very content with
his performance.
Next week is another 40km I.T.T.
Most Tuesday evenings, the organiser of the Boxwood Criterium attempts to keep track of the riders by peering at their (mostly) poorly-placed and attached numbers. Then he drives home, squinting in the setting sun and rubbing his sore eyes. He half-blindly reaches in the bathroom cupboard for the Visine, staggers to the pantry where he keeps his twelve year old single malt scotch,and flops down in front of the computer to work out the race results.
First he looks at the hastily-scrawled notes from the final sprint; not a complete list there. Then he switches on his digital tape recorder:"twelve, three, twenty-tw ...er seven; no, one ...damn, is that John in fourth. Then, let's see, three more riders and... that's Mike and Mark. Damn!, missed the rest.
Next he plugs in the small video cam that recorded the primes and the finish. Most of the numbers are partially or wholly obscured but he is able to recognise most of the riders and is able to publish a reasonable approxi
mation of the result on the web site.
Actually, it;s not quite that bad but the obscured numbers do mean a lot more work than should be necessary. For some good advice on numbers and their placement, go here.