This Sunday February 4th the Bastion Running Club is hosting the annual Cedar 12k as part of the Vancouver Island Runners Association race series. I've been asked by Jim to come ride and lead the runners on course.  I'm hoping I can get at least one other person to come out and ride with me.  The more the merrier

The plan would be to meet at country club 9am and ride south to school on Gould road, support the runners then ride back for coffee at starbucks.

It's likely going to be wet and raining so fenders are a plus.

If you're interested send me an email to palleus@hotmail.com

Cheers,

Happy New Year. I hope everyone had a merry christmas and a happy new year season filled with good food, good company and shiny new bike parts under the tree. Now it's time to start working on goals for next year, whether that be a certain distance per week, a provincial title or just a personal best on strava. 2018 club membership is now live https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=123813 As in past years you still need to have a cycling BC membership. Since everyone signed up for a membership last year I'm sure you've all received the many emails they've sent advertising an early bird savings of 10% if you sign up before January 7th. https://cyclingbc.net/membership/registration/ Not sure which membership you need? The Provincial Ride License - is the basic membership and the minimum required for club group rides. If you're not planning on doing any racing this is the one to get. The Provincial Race License - Covers you for club rides, plus lets you participate in races across the province The UCI Race License - Is the one you want if you plan to travel and race See you on the Road when the ice melts, Cheers

//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.jsLess than one week away from the big day.  The final race of the season is coming up.

Thank you to everyone who has stepped up to volunteer with course set up/operations day of/clean up on Sunday.

If you haven't heard, we're still looking for volunteers to help out with set up Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, manual back up timing and course marshalls as well as course clean up on Sunday.

If you're available to help out, please let us know here on WebscorerClick here to register

Also long time member Janna wanted me to let everyone know that she will be bringing fresh baked cookies and maybe mini-muffins on Saturday morning when she comes to help with Registration.  As you may or may not know, Janna was a big help last year, volunteering at quite a few of our events.  Janna also won our volunteer draw prize at the AGM in October and will be lapping me at the crits her brand new Easton wheelset.  Now I'm not saying baking us cookies and muffins will get you a wheelset, but it couldn't hurt ;)  (It was a totally random draw with Mike holding the list of names and Corey holding the random number generator)

In addition to everything else that is happening this weekend, Sean and Corey are also hosting a get together at Rock City Cycles Saturday night after the race to close out the Cross on the Rock season.  Open to the cyclocross team and MIVA members come by for a beer and some pizza(after you've rinsed the mud off of course)

Hello MIVA members Yes, this Friday is our Annual General Meeting / Awards / Social at the Nanaimo Squash Club starting at 6:30.

We will elect a new President and the board of directors for the upcoming year at this meeting. We are still looking for nominations especially for the President position. If you are willing to serve in this role or know someone who is please fill out this nomination form. If you want to know more about the President or director roles please respond here.

We look forward to handing out some hardware that night and socializing as well. Pizza will be provided, first come first served and you will be be able to purchase beer and other bevies.

See you on Friday! Mike

Volunteers needed for the Kona Kup (on Oct. 9) put on by RCC. Let's make this an awesome race and raise the bar Nanaimo! Email them if you can help out in any way. rockcitycyclesnanaimo@gmail.com