Last night, the club's Fuji bikes were stolen from our container. Please be on the lookout for black or white Fuji track bikes with brakes. The white bikes have red chains. Also keep a watch on Kijiji, used Nanaimo, etc. EDIT-JULY 24: Note from President Peter McCaffery "Hurray for the RCMP! Just one day after the MIVA track bikes were stolen from the club's container,three of the bikes have been recovered. One of the thieves was being arrested on another matter and he happened to be riding one of the Fujis. I guess he's a candidate for the Darwin club. The police figure they should be able to recover the rest of the bikes in short order"

With a 2 week Crit hiatus upon us, you may be going stir crazy. If you're feeling like a good burn come on out to the Hub City Tri Club's Hill Climb session. It starts at 630 Tuesday night (be warmed up and ready to go) at the bottom of Lewis Road (http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6378977) It's a short and steep climb, with the aim to be 45 minutes to an hour of climbing (with rest breaks in between). Hope to see you out!

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It was a perfect night for a TT with just a breeze and not too hot like the past few weeks. A huge turnout once again with 27 cyclists out for the 15k TT. Just how good were the conditions? An unbelievable EIGHTEEN racers put down seasons best times tonight. That's a testament to not only good weather, but seeing the results from everyone's hard work.  The results can be seen HERE. In the Youth Female Category Meghan Gillmore edged out Abigail Hare, breaking the 30 minute barrier for the first time this season! The Youth Male contest has been a battle between two of MIVAs most dedicated members, Ian Gillmore and Aiden Hare. Ian narrowly beat Aiden by only 17 seconds riding to a 32:30.

The Female Category saw Lorrie Baildham pulling off her first sub 25 minute 15kTT of the season to take top points. Anita Gillmore knocked 1:36 off her previous best, as did Kaitlynn Gordon, while Jenn Gordon set her 2nd best time of the season.

In the Male Category Don Gillmore set a seasons best time of just 20:13, averaging 44.5km/hr! Patrick Burnham continued his assault on his PBs by dropping his 15k all time best down to 22:44. Orphee Bernard took 3rd breaking the 23 minute barrier with a 22:50 a few days after being on the podium at the Cowichan Challenge Triathlon. With so many seasons best times tonight there are too many to list, but special kudos to Jason Hare for knocking almost a minute off his time and getting down in to the 23's! Simon Weber also knocked 90 seconds off his best, with Lee Zavarise making a strong improvement in just his 2nd TT this year dropping a minute off his time.

Longtime TT timekeeper Peter McCaffery couldn't make tonights race, leaving big shoes to fill. Club members rallied to help get things set up, special thanks to John Hannon for registration and turnaround marshall duties, and to Colleen Wtorek for debuting as a timekeeper and keeping the cyclists OCD in check with accurate results, thank you!

Next week is a 20k TT, hope to see you all there again.

Overall Series Points updated here.

We are past the midway mark of the season with 13 TT's down and 7 to go.  It's been a great season out on Nanaimo River Road with great turnouts and a nice social atmosphere.  There have been a number of personal bests and course records broken already!  

In the overall points standings there are a number of tight battles, the trophies are still up for grabs in a few categories.  Full results can be viewed here via webscorer.  Expand your name and see all of this seasons results.

In the Top 5 Results Series a few racers have maxed out with 60 points including Janna Gillick, Don Gillmore, Abigail Hare, Meghan Gillmore, Aiden Hare, and Ian Gillmore.

Results can be viewed here via webscorer as well.

Another project I've worked on is compiling a proper database of all former TT results dating back to 2008.  It's taking some time, but I've managed to find as many as possible.  To date, I have put all of the 2012 season into webscorer.  Disregard any points displayed for 2012 or earlier, as they are just to create a series so you can view your old times and see how you've improved over the years.  The end goal is to then have one easy to navigate page where you can click on your name and all of your results with MIVA will display... something like how Cross On The Rock does (example here).

2012 Time Trial Results

2013 Time Trial Results

2013 Hill Climb Results

Another perfect night saw a number of participants do personal bests.  Notable improvements were: Iain Hay, who finally broke the 40 kph barrier with his 22'03", Ian Gillmore, who just missed going under 30 minutes, and Aiden Hare who improved his best time by a huge margin. Carol Phee knocked several minutes of her best 15km and Bryan Rehill almost beat 23 minutes in his first time trial since his bad accident last year. Despite it being the start of the holiday season, there were 24 starters tonight to enjoy the warm and almost wind-free conditions. http://www.webscorer.com/race?raceid=25113

There are still SEVEN remaining TTs for this season and are as follows:

7/17: 15k

7/24: 20k

7/31: 20k

8/7: 15k

8/14: 40k

8/21: 40k

8/28: 15k Finale