It rained off and on during the day, but again the TT had decent weather with only a few drops here and there.  The threat of rain kept some riders away this week, but 6 showed up to duke it out on the 20k course, with 2 of them being on fixies (Dave Metcalfe and Patrick Burnham).  

Reagan Lovig again proved he's on fire this year, posting the win with a seasons best 32:23, with Mathew Allardyce coming through 1:38 behind, and Patrick Burnham in 3rd 10 seconds after Matthew.  Mike Gill continued his improvement, chopping over a minute off his best time.  Paul Callow was once again most improved, knocking THREE FULL MINUTES off his 20k best, very impressive.  Dave Metcalfe has been dedicated this year, in this his 5th race and a seasons best time in the 20k.  6 racers, 5 seasons best times tonight, well done!

 Results here!

Thanks to Lorrie Baildham who came out to volunteer tonight at the turnaround.

A big congrats to Curtis Dearden of Russ Hays Racing, after setting the course record at the MIVA 40k TT a few weeks ago, he won the TT at the Canadian Championships this morning!

Next week is a 20k TT, see you all there!

Results can be found here via Webscorer Or click on the image below:

Series Standings

Male 

Female

Youth Male

Youth Female

Results viewable here on Webscorer

Series Stats to date:

Men

Women

Youth Male

Youth Female

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!