The 2015 Crit series has come to a close, thank you again to our sponsor Industrial Plastics and Paint for your support this year. The results are located here MIVA Criterium Scoring (FINAL)

Nick Kupiak took home his first Crit series title with a dominating season.  The previous winners of this award have been Warren Muir, Ian Smith, Justin Mark, and Iain Hay.  Second place went to the ever improving Brodie Hay, and third to Sean DePol (who rode every race!).

Janna Gillick took home her 4th Crit title with a convincing points lead over second place Angelina Landry (in her first crit seasn) and Jessica Reynolds rounded out the podium.

Evan Luksay and Abigail Hare led the youth categories.

Over our 12 race season, we had 50 different riders come out, and 186 "races raced".  The average number or crit racers on any given night was 17.  Record turnout was 28!

Special thank you to Peter McCaffery for timing the crits, to Iain Hay (and crew) for volunteering/setup/takedown every race, to Janna Gillick for compiling the scoring for the series, and to all of you volunteers who came out to keep our rides safe.  THANK YOU to all of you racers who came out week after week to keep building up the Crit series.

We're already looking forward to next year, and looking for input from all of you.  Look for a survey coming next week, we want to hear from you.

RESULTS1 Justin Mark BCBR 1h 06' 45” 12 2 Brodie Hay Dr. Walkers s.t. J 10 3 John Lam MIVA s.t. 9 4 Aaron Dussault Russ Hays/Aspen Inns s.t. 8 5 David Beggs Cycle Therapy s.t. 7 6 Ray Wagner CVCC At 4” 6 7 Mike McCarney MIVA s.t. 5 8 Paul Thompson MIVA/OBB At 6” 4 9 Janna Gillick Cowichan Cycles s.t. F 12 10 Tom Elliot Cycle Therapy At 9” 3 11 Mke Sevcov Cowichan Valley CC s.t. 2 12 Ken Olsen MIVA At 15” 2 13 Sean De Pol MIVA s.t. 2 14 Mark Wieler MIVA/OBB s.t. 2 15 Angelina Landry MIVA s.t. F 10 16 Patrick Burnham MIVA At 16” 2

PRIMES 1st 1. Brodie Hay, 2. Tom Elliot, 3. Justin Mark F 1. Janna Gillick, 2. Angelina Landry 2nd 1. Tom Elliot, 2. Paul Thompson, 3. Justin Mark F 1. Janna Gillick, 2. Angelina Landry 3rd. 1. Ray Wagner, 2. Patrick Burnham, 3. Brodie Hay F 1. Angelina Landry, 2. Janna Gillick 4th. 1. Brodie Hay, Justin Mark, 3. Tom Elliot F 1. Janna Gillick, 2. Angelina Landry

The last crit of the season goes tonight at Boxwood, 7pm (register 630).  There will be some draw prizes to send off the series in style. See below for the Crit standings going into tonight's race.  Some jostling to be done for podium spots!

MIVA Criterium Scoring (21-Jul-2015)

It was a perfect night for racing tonight, 23 degrees, no wind, and almost no cars on the road (except for the shirtless guy on the scooter). RESULTS HERE! OBB Series Standings HERE! 20k Course Records HERE !

MIVA welcomed its newest member (signed up at 3pm today) Joel Deschiffart to the time trials tonight.  Making the most of his offseason from running (really really fast), he's here to make the last couple TTs then a hill climb series assault.  Never having raced a TT IN HIS LIFE, he guessed 'about a 36 minute 20k'.  Then raced a 31:32, good for 4th overall!

COURSE RECORDS BROKEN: 1 Youth Female: Meghan Gillmore

PERSONAL BESTS: 12 Joel Lutz Simon Weber Matthys Redelinghuys Lee Zavarise Ian Drown Murray Walters Fred Rockwell Kiyomi Schulz Anita Gillmore Meghan Gillmore Tamara Zavarise Sandy Przada

Don Gillmore rode his seasons best 20k in 27:45 (43.2km/hr avg), followed by Joel Lutz' PB (30:47) and Patrick Burnham (31:09).  In the Female Category Janna Gillick rode a fast 31:43 just seconds off a PB, followed by Lorrie Baildham (33:47) on the injury comeback trail, then Kiyomi Schulz (34:46) with her PB!

In the youth categories, Meghan Gillmore SHATTERED the course record with a 36:26 (2 minutes 43 seconds knocked off tonight)!  Abigail Hare rode strong and held her season lead, fresh off last nights Hub City Tri Club race where she clinched the Youth Female Series Champion Trophy!  In the male group Ian Gillmore rode his second best time of the year, with Aiden Hare just behind also riding his second best time of the year just 6 seconds off a PB, and retained his lead atop the standings.

Special thanks to Paul Callow for volunteering as turn around marshall tonight.  All set to race, but with a bike locked to the rack and no key, he made the most of his drive out and helped MIVA out, thanks Paul!

The standings to date look like this: MALE Paul Auton 112 Patrick Burnham 95 Nick Kupiak 87

FEMALE Janna Gillick 113 Kiyomi Schulz 108 Lorrie Baildham 62

YOUTH MALE Aiden Hare 126 Ian Gillmore 100

YOUTH FEMALE Abigail Hare 130 Meghan Gillmore 116

Best of luck to MIVA members Paul Auton, Dave Patterson, and Nancy Patterson, who are over in Whistler racing Ironman Canada this Sunday!

Missing tonight was Dave Steen, who unfortunately broke his elbow a few days ago.  Dave's always been a very big supporter of MIVA and cycling in general, heal up quick!

We have ONE FINAL TIME TRIAL to go this year, a 15k next Thursday July 30th, pre reg here!  The following night we'll have a mid season series wrap up social at Oak Bay Bikes (Fri 7/31 @ 7pm). Click here and let us know if you're coming so we can stock the "refreshments" accordingly!

-Corey

The final 20k of the season is TONIGHT @ Nanaimo River Road, 7 bells.  Pre register here: https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=47301&owner=0 Upcoming: THURS 7/23: 20k TT TUES 7/28: FINAL Crit of the season @ Boxwood THURS 7/30: FINAL TT of the season (15k) FRI 7/31: Series Wrap Up @ Oak Bay Bikes Nanaimo, 7pm.  Come thirsty! THURS 8/6: Hill Climb #1 of the 2015 Hill Climb Series