This is it, the final week of Season 3, and final segments of the year!!

Hope you enjoyed them, there was a bit more of a technical route across Thetis, and then a pretty significant climb - our longest (by time) segment so far! Let's go out with a bang, no? 😂 Surprisingly the reactions I saw on rides weren't that bad!! 

Hope you all enjoyed checking out these routes, and found some new favourite trails!

As mentioned last time, there's a bunch of prizes, PLUS Dan Blackwell donated another $250, so I've picked up yet more Gift Cards, and so there's even more draw prizes this week, thanks again Dan!!

HOUSEKEEPING

Notes for the week:

Nothing I'm aware of, but please double-check the final results and let me know if anything is amiss!

05 <- THIS MANY WEEKS WITHOUT AN ERROR 🤣

If there are any errors, omissions, issues, concerns, or anything else, feel free to hit reply!

SPONSORS AD

This week's sponsor is the brand new inspirational book 'Manifest Fitness - Get Faster Faster, With No Work!':

We all know the Manifest Destiny program works, thanks to books like The Secret, we know about the Law of Attraction - just believe in something, and it'll happen to you!

It's Quantum Physics! So you know it's real!!

Need more money? Just manifest it! Looking for love? Manifest it! (And of course if it isn't happening, you just need to MANIFEST HARDER! It's easy! Maybe get a friend to help you!)

It works for everything else in life, why can't it work with fitness?

Of course, it can!

Through our 5 step process, with zero sweat or work, you too can make SIGNIFICANT gains in your fitness!

Olympians, top professional athletes, Pan American champions and sports announcers all have had incredible success with the Manifest Fitness protocol.

Throw out your bike trainer, tear up those intervals, cancel your Zwift and fire your coach, this is all you need!!

Head over to ManifestFitness.com for more on our program, and use the hashtag #ItsAllInYourMindWeReallyMeanIt for 20% off!

SOUNDTRACK NOTES

No soundtrack tonight, catching up on the CX racing, the Euro champs were pretty good! And watched a very strange 'criterium', but most notably perhaps was that it was Peter Sagan's final road race.

THIS WEEK IN RIDES

Below are my summaries, and you can always view the full results on the main Segment Challenge page:

https://abouttheride.ca/victoria-segment-challenge/

Note: There'll be a follow up message & blog post with the Series Overall results!

The A's

I was out with Katja, Sofia and Jen this week, and on the timed segment Kat and Sofia dropped me with very short order!! I was able to just keep them in sight for the first several minutes.. But as I started up the final section on Kallie's Korner, I spotted them both ahead, fully stopped! Unfortunately Kat had dropped her chain (and it was a bit tangled), but she was okay so I kept going, and Sofia continued after me...but I surprised myself getting to the top first! Sofia wasn't far behind, and Kat was just seconds behind as well, and I'd estimate she made up ~30sec finally getting her chain on and catching Sofia. Bummer on the technical issue, would be cool to see their times without any interruptions, they were flying!

Julian wrapped up the season in style, not only did he get in nearly 4hrs of riding before hitting the segment, he smashed the top time nearly cracking 15mins!! Dan was the only other A this week, and logged a solid time despite a few times stopping to check the map.

The B's

Just Kathy and Tania were out this week, and Tania posted a pretty darn speedy time, but Kathy once again claimed 5pts for the Socialite award!

On the guys side, Travis F posted a crushing time, under 17mins! I was surprised to claim 2nd (I made up some time on Kallie's Korner!), and unbelievably there was a tie, and it was for 3rd with Spencer and Markus, just 3 seconds behind my time! Dave B and newcomer Kevin T were not far behind as well!

The C's

We got 3 of our C ladies out for the finale, and Tanya dropped a pretty speedy time! Lani claims 2nd on our final segment, and Suzy rounded out the final podium.

Chris's winning streak continued until the end, taking 1st once again! (He's also earned himself a mandatory upgrade to B for future Segment Challenges!😉) Josh cracked 30min to take second, and 6sec separated 3rd and 4th, but Tyler G was the fastest, with Kit hot on his heels, and Donnie was giving a time a second slower due to his Wahoo resetting in the middle of the segment, doh!

BONUSES & CURSES

As highlighted, Sofia was the QOM, Julian got the KOM, and Dan B was the Early Bird.

20:22 was the Secret Time but no luck there.  Kathy M claimed the Socialite points, and oddly I thought I saw Dan Blackwell as the Local Legend, but tonight it lists Markus, so unfortunately he took the hit!

PRIZES!

There's a TON of prizes this week, thanks again to Dan Blackwell for contributing to the prize pool! These were the original Gift Cards I had lined up:

• Fort St $40
• Meet $25
• TerraLuv $25
• Vegan Supply $20
• Virtuous Pie $50
• Yates Coffee $25
• Yates Coffee $25

And with Dan's contribution, I picked up the following as well:

• Cycles West $50
• Goldstream $50
• Cinnaholic $25
• Cinnaholic $25
• Cinnaholic $25
• Pure Lovin' Chocolate $25
• Pure Lovin' Chocolate $25
• Pure Lovin' Chocolate $25

This week all names are in for the draw, and have drawn 15 (of 24), and the ridiculously long list is:

Suzy Sylvester
Lani *
Kathy M 🇨🇦
Tyler Galts
david karn

Joel Crocker
Tanya Binette
Joel Wheeler
Tania Johnson
Jennifer Ward

Sofia Donnecke
Markus K
Spencer Floyd
Travis Field
Julian Cameron

I'll email you privately in the batches above, and in that order, so please keep an eye out for my email and reply ASAP so this doesn't take all week. 😉

Note we've also got 6x $25 GCs to Goldstream Bikes remaining, and as promised those will be going to the winners in each of the categories - again, another update to follow for the Series Final!

Beginning of the A segment -
a fun, fast and flowy start,
but it does get a bit rougher!🤣

Headed up to Kallie's Korner!
Did you make up more time
on the smoother trails, or the
technical section? 🤔🔥

It's so weird not having new segments for you.....so you'll have to wait for the spring! (Although I've got some more fun ideas I may try over the winter...keep an eye on your emails and the Strava group!)

More on the Series Overall in the next day or two, stay tuned!! 😁

Safe and speedy riding all! 🚲

- Dave

Join the @AboutTheRideCA social media accounts
for an informative range of local cycling updates!