Congrats to OA Victoria's racers, who all finished well in each of their events on Sunday! The Times Colonist Bastion Square Criterium is the biggest road race on the island, and typically one of the biggest in BC, and marks the closure of the road season here this year. The course is in downtown Victoria, a four-corner road course around the popular Bastion Square market.

Hey all y'all!

An update from this weekend of racing! The second and final TrackFest was this weekend here in Victoria, BC, and out little club did very well!

Evan in the 'C' category unfortunately had only one competitor in the Omnium, and none in the Bunch Races, so he did no worse than 2nd in any event! =) Thrown in with the 'B' racers, he did amazingly well, remaining in contact with the bunch for almost all the races! He's inspired, and looking forward to a solid winter of training, and joining the B's full-on for next year.

Been playing with the video setting of my camera and software, here's a couple vids i've put together.

Enjoy!

Provincials is going quite well, i've gotten two medals!

First was Friday, got a Bronze in the Madison, which was an 'open' event. I choose one of the two Elite Women riders as my partner, so cool that we finished well. There were something like 8 teams.

Second was Sat, somehow i got another Bronze in the Keirin!!! Sooo close to silver, but got pipped at the line...

Also got third in the Madison Tournament with Rachel, earned us $20..haha

Four OA racers at the track tonite for the 'Epic Points Race'! Two in A, and two in B.

Emile and i roll out in a pack of 11, and it starts off rather slow, and remains much that way until the first sprint. Bob Cameron, our main 'threat' is off like a rocket, Emile is on him, and i blow through the field to get the 4th point. I keep the pace up through the sprint in order to try and drop a few people.

Two reports from OA Vic racers - first up is Evan Guengerich who raced the Rat Race MTB Marathon event over on the Sunshine Coast on Saturday, and he finished 225th out of 303 finalists, and 71st in his *huge* age category (91 finishers, 6 more DNFs).

A good night for the guys in green! It's the first half of Omnium Week at the track. An Omnium is an event combining five events to declare an overall winner. Tonight saw the first three events: the flying 200m sprint, a 500m ITT (normally a Kilo, but no need to put people through that ;) and a 5km Scratch race (4km for the B's). (The Omnium concludes on Thursday with a 3km Pursuit, and a 16km Points Race.)

Another weekly race, Emile and i were there, tho so was Don Gillmore, whom i've called 'The Immortal'. He's insanely strong, last year he lapped the field TWICE solo in a points race.

The A field has been nice and big, about 10 riders tonite.

It was pursuit night last Monday at the track, i had it all planned out for myself -- get up to and hold 43kph. That's all i had to do, and i'd get a solid time. This was after careful consideration of the weather conditions and my fitness. That would get me a time in the mid 5:30's, which would be fine for this time of the year.

Did i listen to myself? Nope.

I started off, and by the time i sat, i saw i was going 45kph.

No prob, i thought, i just kept my legs spinning, no pressure.