This Saturday is a great opportunity to ride the Cowichan Populaire put on by the BC Randonneurs. You can choose one of three distances - 50k or 100k or 160k! Sign up here.This will also be the first ride for our newly formed "MIVA Women's 100" group which is training to do a 100k event on July 23. MIVA members Kiyomi Shulz and Janna Gillick will be leading these ladies so if you are interested speak to one of them. Hopefully we will see lots of MIVA members out there on Saturday. How will we know? Because you will be wearing your awesome MIVA kits I bet!
Yes it is finally summer!Monday Development Ride - roll out of the NIC @6pm - we have 3 groups ranging from about 24kmh and up. Come ride with a great group of people and improve your fitness and skills.
Tuesday Crit Race - If you want to improve your speed and endurance why not try a Crit race. Yes the pace is fast but hey drafting is encouraged. Volunteers are needed. Racers it is time to take your turn so sign up! A lucky volunteer will win a sweet Easton wheel set at the end of the season.
Wednesday Int/Adv Ride - From Rock City Cycles at 6:15. This is a good chance to push the pace up and ride with stronger riders.
Thursday Time Trial - 15k this week which is a great distance to try out or better your time. Sign up before 4pm on Thursday.
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Thanks for your patience!
Mike
Time trial tomorrow night is our second 40km TT of the season. We've had a couple of weeks to recover and train from the first one so it's a great opportunity see how you've come along and improved. The trick with the longer time trials is to pace yourself correctly. It's easy to go out hard and burn up so you've got nothing left and have to crawl home on the second lap. You also don't want to take it too easy on the start and cross the line feeling fresh and ready to do it all again. At this moment the only two people signed up are the current Series Leaders
If you're curious to see who knows how to pace themselves check out the results from the last 40km TT and see who had the closest splits.
Pre register here. You're projected finish time will be used to build the start list tomorrow night
Well the weather certainly turned around for us tonight. After Mondays taste of winter I wasn't sure we were going to have a race when I got up this morning. However it turned out to be the best night so far. Slightly smaller field than last week with more locals coming out and less making the drive down from Comox we had 16 riders take the start line.
It was a 35 lap race with two Primes up for grabs mid race. On the sixth lap we rang the bell and Janna jumped to take the sprint and grab a box of chocolate chip clif bars. The second Prime was closely fought with Kevin and Elijah trying to come around Chris Cameron who just barely held them off to the line.
In the final sprint it was Kevin park with a well timed effort who crossed the line just ahead of James Sage.
Series standings before the start of this race. Thank you to Janna for compiling the standings.
As always thanks to our volunteers who came out to the man the corners and the lap board. Without them these races wouldn't happen. All volunteers are entered in for a chance at one of three sweet draw prizes the first of which is a set of Easton EC90 wheels. The more times you volunteer the more times you're entered :D
Sign up and let us know you're available to help out HERE