| Senior Men | Events | Points |
| Ian Smith | 5 | 58 |
| Ray Wagner | 5 | 47 |
| Chris Cameron | 4 | 40 |
| Menno Jongsma | 5 | 39 |
| Nick Kupiak | 6 | 37 |
| Marc Wieler | 6 | 34 |
| Steve Struthers | 3 | 20 |
| Bill McMillan | 6 | 18 |
| Michael Gill | 7 | 18 |
| Paul Thompson | 2 | 17 |
| Evan Earp-Jones | 4 | 16 |
| Mike Sevcov | 4 | 14 |
| Shepherd Stewart | 4 | 12 |
| Rob Russell | 2 | 11 |
| Steve Crowley | 2 | 10 |
| Kyle Waring | 2 | 8 |
| Aaron Milan | 1 | 8 |
| Scott Dolan | 1 | 7 |
| John Lam | 2 | 7 |
| Fred Hodgson | 1 | 6 |
| Shawn Boyd | 1 | 4 |
| Patrick Burnham | 1 | 4 |
| Scott Doran | 1 | 3 |
| Bruce Perry | 1 | 2 |
| Kirby Villeneuve | 1 | 2 |
| Matt Allardyce | 2 | 2 |
| Phil Birrer | 1 | 1 |
| Russell Berg | 1 | 1 |
| Adam McConnell | 1 | 1 |
| Rob Bau | 1 | 1 |
| Colby Large | 1 | 1 |
| Iain Hay | 1 | 1 |
| Ron Hewitson | 1 | 1 |
| Quentin Wicks | 1 | 1 |
| Justin Mark | 1 | 1 |
| Youth Men | Events | Points |
| Brodie Hay | 5 | 49 |
| James Grant | 3 | 32 |
| Mark Grant | 4 | 29 |
| Andrew Grant | 1 | 1 |
| Senior Women | Events | Points |
| Charlene Hay | 5 | 52 |
| Glenda Harling | 2 | 24 |
| Lorrie Baildham | 1 | 12 |
| Laurie Ritchie | 1 | 12 |
| Janna Gillick | 2 | 12 |
| Katie Wallington | 1 | 9 |
| Youth Women | Events | Points |
| Jessica Reynolds | 4 | 48 |
| Mykelti Berg | 2 | 20 |
It's obvious there's a deep divide between course preferences for the Nanaimo River Road TT, it's great that the Nanaimo cycling community is passionate about this topic.
I've spoken extensively with Public Works at the City of Nanaimo the past few days, and while the good news is S Forks Road will be paved next week (great news for cycling all around!), there is more construction on the way to Nanaimo River Road.
At about this location ( http://goo.gl/maps/oxpjh ) there is going to be construction from August 1st lasting for up to 6 weeks. This lies in the original TT course, but not within the new TT course.
The choice is obvious that the 2013 MIVA Time Trial Series will stay on the temporary course for the rest of this season. We'll be then re-visiting this topic after the season, engaging our expanding membership into what course of action should be taken. There is a number of criteria we all have to consider between the 2 courses: safety, history, tradition, parking, and accessibility (how many now BIKE to the race rather than drive).
The 2013 season has been great already let's keep it rolling everyone!
Calling all members... Volunteers required for all the mid week Crits and TTs... We are in the process of developing a volunteer schedule. Phil will be chasing down for help, so be prepared. Good times. Cow bells.
Click Here to visit our new volunteer page.
Another near perfect evening for a TT, a few drops of rain but not a bit of wind made it ideal out there. A 1-2m swath of gravel at about the 5k point definitely caused some to slow to be careful to get past, and unfortunately it took Don Gilmore out of the race with a flat tire after 20k at the halfway point.
A fast group of 6 cyclists from the Russ Hays Cycling Team made a huge effort and came up from Victoria. Unfortunately a fork issue kept Emile de Rosnay from making another appearance on the TT course, but the rest fared well and took the top 5 places overall in the 40k. David Strasser was the only one to come close to a negative split, being only 2 seconds slower on the second lap. Curtis Dearden laid down what is just a smoking TT with a 53:15, which set this course record by 5 minutes! Luke Koolman came in 2nd with a 57:57, followed by David Strasser (59:25), Steve Grandy (1:00:37), and Hayley Warkentin (1:06:49). With 3 more 40k TT's later in the season it would be great to have this group up on the original course to see if any of Don Gilmore's long standing records might fall.
In the womens race, Hayley Warkentin took top honours, followed by the TT Series leader Rose Houle, and Sarah Davidson. Sarah put in a HUGE effort out there tonight, cutting a full TWO MINUTES 20 SECONDS off of her previous time.
The highest placing MIVA member went to Gareth Slocombe, who's obviously been putting in the hard miles this year as he rode a 1:08:58. Right behind him was the ever improving Mike Gill who had his highest placing yet. Paul Callow gets serious kudos for knocking off 3 MINUTES and 36 seconds from his last 40k!
In the youth race Abigail Hare got a season best time in the 20k with a 44:31. Aiden Hare also rode a season best time with a 46:25. Ian Gilmore rode his 2nd fastest 20k of the year, always finishing with a huge smile on his face too. These 3 dedicated youths are only getting faster and faster!
Full results can be seen here via Webscorer.
Series standings can be found here, choose your category to view each.
Many volunteers out again to thank, Glen Gordon for doing a bit of everything (from holder to yeller to support car), Katy Condon for helping organize the timing with myself and Peter, and Mike Mann for being the lonely man at the turnaround point directing people back.
Next week we shift back to a 15k distance, short and sweet so let's get tons of people out to hammer away. With the Victoria Tri on the weekend this will be a nice last high tempo ride. If you are in full on taper mode, we'd love to have you out to help!
