Raining all day with no sign of a let-up so the Boxwood criterium is cancelled. Hopefully, we will have much better weather next week.

Too cold and wet to ride. 14°C and rain? Sorry, but that's trainer weather. http://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/nanaimo/v9r/hourly-weather-forecast/47168

http://webscorer.com/race?raceid=9160  

A good turn out for tonight’s time trial. The east wind helped with the uphill grind to the turn and the return descent made the wind more bearable. Steve Crowley surprised himself and a number of others by winning in his best time of 23'00” with Steve Struthers just four seconds back in second place and Hub City Tri Club's Reagan Lovig 3^rd.  A further minute back. Other notable rides were Phil Birrer's personal best in fourth, Dave Steen's 24' 45” for fifth place, and eight year old Ian Gilmore’s forty minute ride. There were two fixies tonight – Patrick Burnham was joined by Russell Berg on his new Fuji. Thanks to Katy Wallington for computer timing, Kyle Waring for back up timing and holding, and Don Gillmore for marshaling the turn. It's heartening to see the number of volunteers giving up their rides to help out.

-Peter

Despite the rain in Nanaimo eight riders turned up tonight to contest the two races. The weather in Nanoose was much dryer and rain held off until after the completion of the evening's events.  

24 lap elimination race

1. Ray Wagner, CVCC
2.  Nick Kupiak, MIVA

The 8 starters were to sprint every three laps, with the last over the line being eliminated. The final two riders sprinted for the win after a further two laps.

30 lap points race

sprints every 5 laps with 5, 3, 2 points for top three. Doubl;e points on 15^th. And 30^th. Lap

The pack stayed together for the majority of the race, except for Mike Gill, who dropped back and used the race as pack training each time he was lapped.  Strong man of the race was Mark Wiler, who had 18 points by the half way point. N ick Kupiak was a close second with 14 points. Then, in the second half of the event, Ray Wagner amassed 15  to add to his first half total of 5 but Mark won a further 10 points to end up with 28 points. Other points scorers were Bill McMillan, Steve Crowley and Brodie Hay.

RESULTS

	Sprints >>>	1	2	3	4	5	6	Tot.	Pos.
Mark Wieler	Arrowsmith	5	3	10	2	2	6	28	1st.
Ray Wagner	CVCC	3	2		5		10	20	2nd.
Nick Kupiak	MIVA		5	6	3			14	3rd.
Bill McMillan	MIVA	2		4			4	10	4th.
Steve Crowley	MIVA					5		5	5th.
Brodie Hay	Vipyrs					3		3	6th.
Fred Hodgson	MIVA							0	7th.
Mike Gill								0	8th.

Thanks to Iain Hay for set up and take down. By the way, welcome to new MIVA member Fred Hodgson who rode for Symmetrics some years ago and has just returned to competition after looking after his family, who were also here..