Hey everyone!!

Busy weekend with racing, it's the Provincial Championships, right here in the CRD!!!

Friday evening was the Time Trial champs (out by the airport), today was the Road Race (where everyone got DRENCHED), and tomorrow are the Crit champs in downtown Sidney!! Elite Women's race starts 1:50 (I originally had 2:15 written down, it appears to have changed!), Men go at 3:30. It's a SHORT course, so should be pretty thrilling!!! Details here. A number of Segment riders have been out racing, love seeing you all out there!!!! 🔥🔥🔥

Thanks to the peeps who chipped in, we've got some sweet primes to award the U23 Women, Elite Women and U23 Men!! As one contributor put it:

"The next Gee or Woodsey might be in the race."

Exactly!!

And now for our regular news -  the final report for So You Think You Can Climb has been posted to the website, check it out here!

https://abouttheride.ca/so-you-think-you-can-climb-2025-final-report/

There's some fun stats (remember the polls about your favourite and least favourite climbs?), we celebrate our hardcore riders who rode each and every climb, and of course our overall series winners! Hit the link to check it out!!

And since it's the finals, we've got the final draw prizes as well, including some bigger goodies!

DRAW PRIZES!

We've always got some sweet draw prizes every week! Watch our socials (Insta & Facebook) to see what we'll be giving away each week!

We'll be giving away all the rest of the swag, take a peek here, there are also some 'leftovers' from Season 7 of the Segment Challenge too!

To qualify for the final draw, you must either:

• Have ridden the final week
• Finished on the Overall Podium

And if you're both on the Overall Podiumed, and rode the last week, you'll get twice the chances to win with two entries (tho can only win one prize.) There are 17 prizes remaining, so 17 lucky winners!

With all that said, here are our final winners, broken down into batches:

Group 1

John Fletcher
Rafael Castillo Henao
Gabrielle Leung
Brooklynn Taylor-Clark
Dave Bitschy
Graham Fletcher
Kevin Jackson
Billy Turcotte

Group 2

Mark Devitt
Laura Hahn
Bill Ransford
Julia Barron
Megan Thomas
Kathryn TGreat
Jennifer Ward
Greg Goforth
Joel Crocker

I will email Group 1 on Sunday some time, as always, first to reply will get their first prize selections! (Please don't email me ahead of time!) Once I've heard from everyone in Group 1, I'll message Group 2 for the remaining prizes!

Congrats everyone!!

STARTING NEXT WEEK!

The Segment Challenge continues, starting June 2nd, and will run 8 weeks once more, with two segments posted each week.

Sign up is live on the site!

PLUS - I'm once again running the Rider's Choice theme, so *you* can suggest segments!!

Got a neat one in mind? Or is there one from a past season that you missed, or want to have another go at?

Then let me know! There's a form on the event page, look for the button near the top! We did this last summer, and I thought it was FANTASTIC. Looking forward to seeing your suggestions! (There's been just three so far, I need MORE!!)

Here's that link: https://abouttheride.ca/victoria-segment-challenge/

That's it for tonight, as always, safe and speedy riding! 🚲

- Dave

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