Saturday, October 5th. The Nanaimo Hill Climb Championship, also the final event in the MIVA 2013 hill climb series, will take place on the Duomont/ Wiegles hill. Registration is at Pleasant Valley Community Centre car park at 10.30am and first rider is away at 11am. Come on out and ride or cheer on your favourites.

The 2013 MIVA Hill Climb Championship is past the halfway point, with 4 of the 6 events completed.  This week is the doubleheader finale with a race on Thursday evening, and the final on Saturday morning.  NOTE: We need 2-3 volunteers to help out with this Thursdays event, please let us know via comment or on FB if you can help.  

The series standings are up to date via Webscorer.  Currently there's a tight race for top spot in the Male category, with Justin Mark holding a slight edge on Nick Kupiak 46 to 42 points respectively.  A racers top 4 scores count toward their total.

Race 1 Aho: Webscorer, Recap

Race 2 Calder: Webscorer, Recap

Race 3 Doumont: Webscorer, Recap

Race 4 Kilpatrick: Webscorer, Recap

Race 5:

Departure Bay: 3.3k.  Registration at 530pm, Race at 6pm.  Meet at Departure Bay Elementary School.

The Strava segment for this race is here.

Race 6:

Doumont Rd: 5.3k.  Registration at 1030am, Race starts at 11am.  Same route as the 9.19 Hill Climb.  Start at Pleasant Valley Social Center, here is a map.

The Strava segment for this race is here.

Our calendar function of the website is currently down as it has been causing some issues with our server.  We're working on getting it back up and running ASAP.  Meanwhile, keep an eye on our Twitter feed and Facebook for upcoming events.

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