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The fourth event in the MIVA climb series series was held on the 3.2 kilometre Kilpatrick/Benson View roads, finishing opposite Witchcraft Lake. Like the Aho Road race, it was a massed event withal with all participants starting together. After a kilometre, six of the ten starters were still together but soon afterwards, Mike Gill dropped back. after a brief attempt to regain contact, he settled into his high cadence and continued alone, between the leaders and the slower riders.The lead pack reached the sharp right hand turn onto Benson View and, as the road kicked up to twelve percent, first Phil Birrer and then Sean de Pol were dropped. Now only MIvA rider Nick Kupiak, Justin Mark, Steed Cycles and Doug Merrick, CVCC were left. First Nick and then Justin turned on the juice, leaving Doug to find his own way to the finish. As road dipped down slightly before the final two hundred metre rise, Steed and Kupiak were still together and that's the way they finished, with just 0.2seconds separating them. These two have battled each other for the first four hill climbs with Justin winning three and Nick one. The final two events will give Nick the chance to catch his Vancouver opponent. The lone woman, For Theresa Price, UBC Tri club, this was her first hill climb and also her first start in a MIVA event. She has just relocated to take a position at NRGH and weare sure to see more of her. Abigail Hare finished behind Theresa for the female youth category and brother Aiden brought up the rear for male youth.Thanks to shutterbug Patrick Burnham for taking some photos, which should be upon the web soon.
Results for this event are at www.webscorer.com/race?raceid=13502
The 2013 MIVA Time Trial Series was record setting for attendance, and we thank all of you who made the effort to come out, but most of all THANK YOU to MIVA's great set of volunteers who came out, none more dedicated than Peter himself who never missed a race all year.
MIVA utilized Webscorer this year to maintain a high standard of time keeping, as well as simplified scoring.
- Click here to view the entire TT Series (top 5 scores) standings, expand the + next to your name and view all of your races and times.
- Click here to view the overall TT Points Series (total points accumulated), again expand your category and name to view specific races and times.
Patrick Burnham also took quite a few photos this year, feel free to browse here on his flikr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/palleus/
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There were many new faces this year, who continued to show up week after week. Overall there were 258 race entries over the 19 TT's this year (almost 14 riders per race basically). For reference, in 2012 there were 178 entries, and in 2011 there were 128 entries. Basically in just 2 short years MIVA has DOUBLED the attendance at TT's!
Race Entries Overall and By Category
| MIVA | Overall | Male | Female | Youth Male | Youth Female |
| 2011 | 128 | 93 | 30 | 5 | 0 |
| 2012 | 178 | 110 | 52 | 8 | 8 |
| 2013 | 258 | 175 | 39 | 29 | 15 |
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DEDICATION (Most Events Ridden)
Overall, both Patrick Burnham and Mike Gill tied for most dedicated, each coming to 16 of the 19 TT's (after Peter, who was at 19 of 19 of course). Jennifer Gordon led the women with 10 appearances, Aiden Hare with 15 races, and Abigail Hare with 13 races. Very impressive dedication from newcomers and the youth!
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TOTAL POINTS SERIES
In the overall MIVA Total Points Series standings, Patrick Burnham edged out Reagan Lovig and Don Gilmore, totalling 133 points, 114 points, and 108 points, respectively. In the female division Jennifer Gordon's dedication paid off as her times not only got faster and faster, but she won with 90 points. In the youth divisions it was a Hare sweep, with Aiden taking a MIVA high 176 points, and Abigail 152.
MIVA Master 2013 - TT OVERALL (2)
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MIVA TT Series (best 5 results)
Don Gilmore takes the title with a maxed out score of 60 points, followed closely by Reagan Lovig (58) and Patrick Burnham (50). In the Womens Category Lorrie Baildham recovered from her early season horrific bike crash to win with 60 points, followed by Rose Houle (56) and Sarah Davidson (52). In the youth category Abigail Hare won with 60, and both Aiden Hare and Ian Gilmore came away with 60 points as well.
MIVA Master 2013 - TT SERIES (4)
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BAR (Best All Around Rider)
A racers top 15k, 20k, and 40k times are added together, then divided over 75km to attain their overall average speed.
It was a tight race, but Don Gilmore took the title averaging 42.5km/hr over the 3 distances (15, 20, 40) in the mens, with Lorrie Baildham taking the title in the womens averaging 35.3km/hr.
MIVA Master 2013 - Best All Around Rider (2)
- BAR Award Winner - Don Gilmore
Coming up very soon is the CROSS clinics, always very popular and extremely useful in prep for the Cross On The Rock series which begins sept 29th in Cumberland.
None of the instructors is available to give the cyclo-cross clinic on Wednesday evening. Therefore the clinic has been moved to Saturday morning 10-11am at the Beban park BMX grounds. Sorry for the inconvenience.