A beautiful night for a 15k TT brought 31 racers out, our 2nd largest turnout.   Once again, many PB's were set as our diligent group of racers here in Nanaimo (and area) keep improving and putting the hammer down!  A special congrats to Wendy Hicks and Valerie Capewell, well done for coming out and racing their first ever time trial! For the skimmers! Race results for tonight here 2015 OBB Series Standings here 15k Course Records here

TWO COURSE RECORDS were broken tonight, as Janna Gillick clocked a 23:21 to lower her previous mark by 4 seconds!  Aiden Hare also smashed the youth male course record tonight with a  29:44, the previous record was 30:02 held by Ian Gillmore.  Abigail Hare rode her lifetime best 29:11, just 1 second shy of the youth female course record held by Meghan Gillmore.

There was a tight finish at the top of the leaderboard as both Don Gillmore and Paul Auton topped 43km/hr average, with Don taking the win by under 5 seconds.  Come out to the Time Trials, the results speak for themselves.  96% of racers tonight improved on their previous seasons best time!  Mike Gill was a micro 1.3 seconds off his seasons best too or we'd have had a clean sweep, impressive everyone.  A big congrats to Carole Phee as well, one year ago she raced a 42:20, and tonight she clocked a 30:59, over 11 minutes knocked off over just 15k is incredible Carole!

2 Course Records Set Tonight:

Female: Janna Gillick 23:21 (previous mark Janna Gillick 23:25) Youth Male: Aiden Hare 29:44 (previous mark Ian Gillmore 30:02)

14 Lifetime PBs on this 15k Course set tonight Janna Gillick 23:21 Kiyomi Shulz 25:23 Lulu McCallum 25:38 Deb Epps 27:00 Tamara Zavarise 29:06 Carole Phee 30:59 Paul Auton 20:50 Nick Kupiak 21:35 Kim Sutherland 24:33 Matthys Redelinghuys 24:35 Mark Overton 24:39 Lee Zavarise 25:24 Fred Rockwell 28:35 Ross Palfery 30:23

22 Seasons Best Times (ridden 2 or more 15k's this year)

Don Gillmore 20:45 (21:48) Paul Auton 20:50 (21:31) Nick Kupiak 21:35 (21:36) Justin Mark 22:18 (22:51) Patrick Burnham 22:46 (23:08) Orphee Bernard 23:13 (23:20) Jason Hare 24:26 (25:14) Kim Sutherland 24:33 (25:35) Matthys Redelinghuys 24:35 (25:50) Lee Zavarise 25:24 (25:36) Fred Rockwell 28:35 (30:12) Ross Palfery 30:23 (30:58) Janna Gillick 23:21 (23:30) Kiyomi Shulz 25:23 (26:19) Lulu McCallum 25:38 (26:26) Deb Epps 27:00 (27:11) Tamara Zavarise 29:05 (30:21) Carole Phee 30:58 (32:38) Abigail Hare 29:11 (31:27) Meghan Gillmore 30:18 (31:51) Aiden Hare 29:43 (31:05) Ian Gillmore 31:49 (34:11) IMPRESSIVE!

Thank you to Colleen Wtorek for biking out to the turnaround to marshall, and to Veronica Capewell and Matt Evans for acting as holders and assisting in spotting.

Next week is a 15k again, see you then!

Here are the Industrial Plastics and Paint Criterium Points to date after 5 races.  Thank you to all of the volunteers in making the series great, and to Janna for compiling the points. MIVA Criterium Scoring (10-June-2015)

https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=44492  

Nick Kupiak Broad Street Cycles 1h 05' 11” 12 (40.8kph)Brodie Hay Dr. Walker At 1 lap 10 Peter Mogg BC Permit “ 9 John Lam MIVA “ 8 Aaron Dussault Russ Hays “ 7 Sean De Pol MIVA “ 6 Justin Mark Steed Cycles “ 5 Janna Gillick MIVA “ F 12 Mike McCarney MIVA lapped 4 Ray Wagner CVCC lapped 3 Ken Olsen MIVA lapped 2 Phil Birrer MIVA lapped 2 Wade Luksay Trail Bicycles incomplete 2 Mike Sevcov Cowichan Valley C.C. 1 Bill McMillan MIVA 1 Patrick Burnham MIVA 1 Iain Hay MIVA 1

Evan Luksay Trail Bicycles CM 12

Immediately after the three neutral laps, the action started! Peter Mogg,Brodie Hay, Janna Gillick, Nick Kupiak & Jon Lam put 5 seconds into the rest of the bunch but by the next lap, just Lam and Kupiak were off the front with a chase group of seven in hot pursuit. Within another lap, Nick had distanced himself from Lam and there were now three groups plus a straggler. By lap seven, the Broad Street Cycles speedster had eight seconds in hand, with Justin Mark bridging. Two more laps and the duo were together and proceeded to gain five seconds per lap on a chase group that included the original break plus Aaron Dussault, with the rest of the starters losing ground fast. And that's the way it stayed until eighteen laps to go when Justin finally was unable to stay with Mr. Kupiak and started drifting back . Ten laps later. Nick lapped the chase group and actually went ahead again for a while before settling down behind them. Meanwhile, Justin was in no man's land but rapidly being caught by the bunch and on the last lap he was absorbed Kupiak did not contest the final sprint, being a lap up on the rest but Brodie Hay comfortably won the dash for second, with Peter Mogg in third, just a whisker ahead of a rapidly advancing John Lam and Aaron rounding out the top five. Lone woman Janna Gillick came in a very creditable eighth after having spent an active role in the main group for most of the race. Thanks as usual to our equipment manager Iain Hay and son Brodie and of course to our corner marshals, without whom there would be no race.

RESULTS women youth points 1 Nick Kupiak Broad Street Cycles 1h 05' 11” 12 2 Brodie Hay Dr. Walker At 1 lap 10 3 Peter Mogg BC Permit “ 9 4 John Lam MIVA “ 8 5 Aaron Dussault Russ Hays “ 7 6 Sean De Pol MIVA “ 6 7 Justin Mark Steed Cycles “ 5 8 Janna Gillick MIVA “ F 12 9 Mike McCarney MIVA lapped 4 10 Ray Wagner CVCC lapped 3 11 Ken Olsen MIVA lapped 2 12 Phil Birrer MIVA lapped 2 14 Wade Luksay Trail Bicycles incomplete 2 DNF Mike Sevcov Cowichan Valley C.C. 1 DNF Bill McMillan MIVA 1 DNF Patrick Burnham MIVA 1 DNF Iain Hay MIVA 1

Youth Event 20 laps 1 Evan Luksay Trail Bicycles CM 12