Team	Club	7.5km split	time	points
Dave Steen	BCMCA	18' 25"	33' 28"	12
Paul Gowland	BCMCA			12
Matt Allardyce	MIVA	17' 58"	33' 45"	10
Adam McConnell	MIVA			10
Patrick Burnhm	MIVA	18' 25"	33' 49"	9
Lorrie Baildham	MIVA			9
Russell Berg	MIVA	19' 35"	35' 27"	8
Mykelti Berg (Jun)	MIVA			8

MIVA 20km ttt 120819 Nanaimo River Road

A small turnout for the last of the team time trials - only four teams. However, the results were pretty close. BCMCA reps. Dave Steen and Paul Gowland won, beating second place Team of Matt Allardyce and Adam McConnell by just seventeen seconds and Lorrie Bailtham & Patrick Burnham on his fixie by twenty-one seconds. Fourth placed Russ Berg and daughter Mykelti were less than two minutes down, doing a very7 creditable 35' 27". It should be noted that Matt dropped a not-so-well Paul after five kilometers and finished alone in 31' 52" . All teams need to work on turnarounds and pacing for next season..

Thanks to Katy Condon for holding and equipment packing. Ride well in the Penticton Triathlon, Katy.

Next Thursday is the first of the club hill climbs - a 3km drag up Departure Bay Road and Uplands Road, to finish on Hillside Road. Registration opens at 6.30pm at Departure Bay Elementary School.

JUNIOR EVENTS

FLYING LAP

	No.	NAME	CLUB	TIME	PTS.
1	5	James Grant	Cycle University	59.1”	12
2	7	Brodie Hay	MIVA	59.4”	10
3	4	Alec Stapff	MIVA	60.1”	9
4	6	Jessica Reynolds	MIVA	63.4”	12
5	3	Mykelti Berg	MIVA	65.2”	10
25 LAP CRITERIUM
1		Alec Stapff	MIVA	25' 41”	12
2		James Grant	Cycle University	At 27”	10
3		Brodie Hay	MIVA	At 54”	9
4		Jessica Reynolds	MIVA	At 57”	12
5		Mykelti Berg	MIVAat 1 lap		10

SENIOR EVENTS

MISS AND OUT (ELIMINATION RACE)

Lap	Name	Club	Eliminated	Pts.
2	Mark Wieler	Arrowsmith/MIVA	X	2
3	Kirby Villeneuve	MIVA	X	2
4	Russ Berg	MIVA	X	2
5	Matt Allardyce	MIVA	X	2
6	Rob Bau	MIVA	X	2
7	Iain Hay	MIVA	X	3
8	Bill McMillan	MIVA	X	4
9	Normon Thibault	Frontrunners	X	5
10	Andrew Grant	Cycle University	X	6
11	Rob Russell	Island Cycle/MIVA	X	7
12	Kyle Waring	MIVA	X	8
14 1st.	Ian Smith	MIVA	12' 30”	12
2nd	Warren Muir	Top Gear	s.t.	10
3rd.	Paul Thompson	MIVA	s.t.	9

25 LAP POINTS CRITERIUM

Sprints every 5laps, 5, 3, 2 points. Double points last lap

SPRINT	1	2	3	4	5	tot
Ian Smith	5	5	1	5	10	26
Warren Muir	3	1	5	x	x	x	DNF-crashed lap 16 ret. Lap 18
Rob Russell	1		3		x	4	DNF -crashed lap 10 ret. Lap 22
Kyle Waring		3		3	6	12	Lapped on lap 16
Mark Wieler				1	2	3	Lapped on lap 14 & lap 20 (by leader)

No other points. Remainder of results based on final sprint and lapped riders

RESULT

1	Ian Smith	26		12
2	Kyle Waring	12	Lapped by leader on lap 17	10
3	Paul Thompson		Lapped by leader on lap 15	9
4	Bill McMillan		At 1 lap	8
5	Normon Thibault		At 1 lap	7
6	Mark Wieler	3	Lapped	6
7	Rob Bau		Lapped	5
8	Russell Berg		Lapped	4
9	Iain Hay		lapped	3
10	Kirby Villeneuve		lapped	2
11	Matt Allardyce		Lapped, joined in late.	2
	Andrew Grant		DNF	1
	Warren Muir		DNF	1
	Rob Russell		DNF	1

ARBUTUS MEADOWS EVENTS 120814

 The second week at Arbutus Meadows Equestrian Centre, south of Parksville, Vancouver Island, saw five juniors and fourteen seniors contest two events each. First on the schedule was a flying lap for the youths. Times on the 625 meter circuit were surprisingly close, with James Grant just edging Brodie Hay by 0.3 seconds and newcomer Alec Stapff placing third, a further 0.7 seconds back.

In the following twenty-five lap criterium, Alec showed his strength by easily winning, riding away from the other riders with fourteen laps to go.James Grant chased furiously, never giving up, but was 27 seconds down on Alec at the finish. Brodie Hay took third, a further 27seconds in arrears. The two girls rode well with Jessica Reynolds only three seconds behind Brodie and Mykelti Berg, who lost time coming out of the corners, riding most of the race solo, only giving up a couple of seconds a lap.

The first event for the seniors was an elimination race. This was a new experience for some of thestarters and there were soon two bunches rather than the usual one. Mark Wieler, who looked very apprehensive, was the first to go and was followed in short order by five more of the original fourteen. Now we were down to a fast moving pack of eight. Five more missed the cut and were out, leaving Ian Smith, Warren Muir and Paul Thompson just two laps to go until the final sprint. At the line, they finished in that order.

The last event of the evening was the senior points criterium. Since this was a new experience for some of the riders,

Peter McC took great pains to explain the rules and how points would be awarded . As the

pack rolled away from the start,there were still some puzzled expressions on a few faces but the more

experienced riders attempted to clarify things before the first sprint at five laps. Even before this point, four riders were off the back, leaving a lead pack of nine, Matt Allardyce having started late. The initial points went to Ian Smith (5), Warren Muir (3), and Rob Russell (2). These three shared the points for the next two sprints, except when Kyle Waring snagged a second place on the third sprint.

With ten laps remaining, first category Ian Smith rode of the front of the pack and about the same time Warren and Rob crashed, retiring a few laps later. Ian continued to ride strongly and eventually lapped the remnants of the field. Kyle Waring, the last to be lapped, stayed away from the rest and took second place points for the last two sprints, securing a solid second place. With none of the other remaining riders having won any points, the next finisher, Paul thompson, was third overall.

With two more opportunities to ride points criteriums before the end of the series, the “newbies” will have a better idea how to approach this type of race.

Thanks to the Steve Grant and Harry Reynolds for bringing the Courtenay juniors down and to various spectators for helping with set up and tear down.

Thanks to Rob Bau, the remaining criteriums in the MIVA 2012 series will be at Arbutus Meadows Equestrian Centre on the Island Highway just south of Parksville. Turn at the traffic lights at the top of the long hill. To add a bit of variety and to take advantage of the unique nature of the circuit, the August 14th. events will include flying laps for the youth riders followed by a normal criterium and an elimination race for the seniors followed by a forty lap  points criterium with sprints every five laps. Points for first three. Double points for the sprint at 20 laps and the final sprint.

Photos from last week here courtesy of Mrs. hare.