Monday Cross Ride - from the NIC at 6pm. All levels accomodated. A cross bike is needed. Thursday Cross Practice - in Bowen Park with Carey Mark leading the way. Skills and drills to help you get on and off your bike faster and go faster in between. Meet near the Wahl Street entrance. It's fun, come try it out!

Wednesdays - Rock City Cycles hosts a ride from the shop at 6:15.

Hosted by:Carey Mark/MIVA

When and Where: Meet at Bowen -Wall St. Parking lot 6:00-7:30pm Thursday Sept 7th 6:00-7:30pm Thursday Sept 14th 6:00-7:30pm Thursday Sept 21st 6:00-7:30pm Thursday Sept 28th 6:00-7:30pm Thursday Oct 5th

Who: Anyone who wants to practice their skills for riding

What: A 1.5 hour clinic covering all of the basic skills of Cyclo-cross riding and racing. Warm-up, skills practice, short race.

Need: cyclocross or mountain bike

Cost: Free (All abilities are welcome and everyone should be able to learn something or at least practice their skills.) Topics will include: -Cornering -Hills -Start line plan -Dismounting -Remounting -Barriers -Run-ups and I rideable sections -Race strategies

See you Thursday!

Wow, where did the summer go?! This brings us to the last Monday Group ride on August 28. We will NOT START AT the NIC. But instead we will start (6:00pm) and end at one of our great sponsors, White Sails Brewery. This is a good opportunity for a bit of a different ride and a chance to chat and swap cycling stories.Trophy holders - come ride or have a drink and bring your trophy back so we have it in time for the AGM. Season pass holders - this is a good chance to return your number with timing chip. Last year we had about 38 of us, let's beat that! See you Monday!

Last week was a busy one. First we had the hugely successful second running of the Midsummers Cross Race at Diver Lake Park.  An amazing event.  Despite the heat and smoke we had a great turn out, lots of volunteers to make set up a breeze leaving plenty of time for racers to pre-ride the course.  Also a huge turn out of racers with 113 taking the line and kicking up dust.  That number includes the Zoom Zooms and the Half lappers that made sure Norm warmed up for his race

He had to to drop that Megaphone because they were on his wheel.

We also had Rhonda and the girls from Superstore out serving up cold snacks.  The lack of a hot barbecue didn't seem to bother anyone.  The Icecream sandwich and Orange slice hand ups were definitely a welcome treat to parched and dusty racers.

B race results Here

A race results Here

We followed that up with our Arrowsmith Bikes Hill climb.  I'm not gonna lie, after Wednesday night I considered cancelling the hill climb because I thought who wants to race again the next night.  Well I was wrong.  We had a great turn out with 14 riders tackling the Jameson Road climb.

Hill Climb Results Here

Then to finish off the weekend was the Comox Valley Cycling Clubs Annual Mount Washington Hill Climb.  MIVA put in a strong showing with over 25% of the field.  The Weather was perfect for the climb today.  Overcast and cool with just a sprinkling of rain to help cool you off half way up.  The complete results shamelessly stolen from their Facebook Group page at the bottom of this post

With that it's time to start winding down our season just a bit.  By that I mean we only have Two events per week until the end of August.

Tomorrow night we will once again be meeting at the Nanaimo Ice Center for our Monday night development ride.

This Thursday will continue our Arrowsmith Bikes Hill Climb Series with the Witchcraft lake Climb.  Riders will once again be meeting up at the bottom of Kilpatrick Road next to the mailboxes and heading straight up.

Mount Washington Hill Climb; Hosted by Comox Valley Cycling Club

Results

Name Tme Category Mark Grant 53:51 A Doug Merrick 53:56 A Isaac Rankin 53:57 A Keiran Neilsen 54:15 A Sean Lunny 54:16 A Thomas Kalynuk 55:09 A Brett Whitehead 56:01 A Isaac van der Vliet 56:50 A Nicolas Parlee 57:39 A Nathan Walsh 58:35 A Wade Luksay 59:23 A Emily Johnston 59:24 A Dan Wilson 59:24 A Dave Opko 1:00:40 B Harry Reddin 1:01:12 A Juan Rodriguez 1:01:31 B Chris Pullman 1:01:33 B Jamie Saunders 1:03:14 B Ken Johnston 1:03:31 B Ray Wagner 1:03:45 B Jacob Yells, 1:04:48 A James Manders 1:05:28 B Jim Brown 1:05:36 B Kerry Hale 1:07:25 B Gary Argyle 1:09:00 C Lorrie Baildhar 1:09:08 C Jamie Olsen 1:09:20 C Chris Bowman 1:09:57 B Larissa Pelleterio 1:10:05 B E.J.Duncan 1:13:47 C Tim Everets 1:14:21 B Mort Allingham 1:15:34 B Ramon Ramirez 1:16:12 B Janine Bell 1:16:54 C Jeff Lawrence 1:19:17 B Fetze Elgersma 1:19:33 C Chris Perrault 1:20:55 C Wanda Reddin 1:21:08 C Patrick Burnham 1:23:18 B Evan Luksay 1:27:09 C Brynn Johnston 1:35:03 C Lisa McLeod 1:35:03 C

Crits and time trials are done, but the season is far from over. Wednesday night we are hosting the Mid Summers Cross race in Diver Lake park.  Entries are limited with only five spots left in the A race(at 5pm Monday afternoon)  If you're interested nows the time to sign up //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js We're still looking for help Tuesday evening around five pm to walk the course and rake up pine cones/move big branches etc... to prep the course.  I had a quick look around this afternoon and it's not too bad.  Four or five people with rakes and gloves and we can be done in less than hour.  Bring your bike and we can pre-ride afterwards.

Wednesday afternoon 3:30pm we're starting course set up.  We know we've got six people for sure, who else can come lend a hand.  The more the merrier.  Sign up Here.

Don't forget as well that in addition to my eternal love and respect, all volunteers are going to be entered into the draw for a set of Easton EC90s or Vision Trimax30s at our AGM

Cross isn't your thing?  That's ok, we also still have our Arrowsmith Bikes Hill Climb Series on Thursday August 10.  Meet at the mailboxes on Kilpatrick Road just off Jinglepot at 6pm.  It'll be a great warm up for the Mount Washington Hill climb on Sunday August 13th hosted by the Comox Valley Cycling Club  www.comoxvalleycycleclub.ca