MIVA HILL CLIMB NO. 4, 12 09 22 Duomont Rd./Wiegles Rd. - 5.2km

The final event in the MIVA 2012 time trial series took place on the popular Duomont/Wiegles limb. This hill is 5.2 kilometer, with the really tough part in the last three kilometers. The first two km is a series of small roller coasters, with several short, sharp ascents.

First off was Abigail Hare, who has ridden all the hill climbs so far and shows steady improvement in pedaling technique and use of gears. Considering she is only thirteen, her twenty one minute time was excellent and just over four minutes slower than that of Patrick Burnham, who rides the MIVA time trials on a fixed wheel. Abigail's father, Jason, is working on his fitness level but still beat Patrick by over a minute.

A space of only twenty seconds covered second, third and fourth places, with Mark Wieler surprising us by posting second fastest time and third placed Kirby Villeneuve beating Lorrie Baildham by only four seconds.

The ride of the evening was by Doug Merrick from Courtenay who is at VIU for the Winter. He won by almost two minutes but his time of 13' 25” was nearly a minute and a half off Paul Auton's 12' 00"  record of last year.

With both the time trial and criterium series done, and cyclo-cross in full swing, all that's left is to calculate the series winners in each category.This information will be published shortly.

	CLUB	CAT	TIME	PTS.
Doug Merrick	CVCC	SM	7' 24”	12
Kirby Villeneuve	MIVA	SM	8' 39”	10
Mark Wieler	Arrowsmith/MIVA	SM	8' 42”	9
Lorrie Baildham	MIVA	SW	8' 59”	12
BruceMitchell	MIVA	SM	9' 06”	8
Patrick Burnham	MIVA	SM	9' 25”	7
Jason Hare	MIVA	SM	9'25”	7
Abigail Hare	MIVA	JW	12' 14”	12
Aiden Hare	MIVA	JM	13' 27”	12
Katy Condon	Timekeeper			5
Paul Thompson	Volunteer			5

Thanks to Katy Condon and Paul Thompson, the College Drive Hill Climb went off without a hitch. Pity that more people didn't show for this excellent climb. Good to see Abigail and Aiden Hare out. Their regular participation over the last few weeks has pushed them up to the top of the series in their categories. Next Thursday is the last hill climb and also the last event in the 2012 time trial series, so lets see lots of entries for the Duomont climb. Registration at 6pm at Pleasant Vallet Community Centre, first rider off at 6.31pm.

MIVA was very well represented in most of the categories at the Gorge Park Cross on the Rock race on Sunday. The weather was spectacular and the course was challenging but not overly technical.  A write-up of how it went down, complete results and a link to a photo album by Patrick, can be found here in Pedal: http://pedalmag.com/?p=173458  

Next up is Cumberland!

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