It's go time!!!

The Summer Segment Challenge has begun! (Yes, that means warm and sunny days EVERY DAY now!)

The theme is Rider's Choice, which means you guys can send in segment suggestions, and I'll curate the season around it. I've received a total of 4 suggestions so far, and that's not enough! Keep 'em coming!! There's a button at the top of the event page. Great suggestions so far, but they're a bit of a ways out, so will be featured a bit later in the season.

To kick things off, we're headed to Royal Oak, for a couple rematches with segments from Season 2, with a really punchy and twisty climb, and a pretty fast straight shot down Santa Clarita!

For those who are new to the Segment Challenge, please review the full event page - there are some twists to make things a bit more 'exciting', such as bonuses and curses (they're listed near the bottom.) You don't 'have' to know about them, but they come up each week, and if you're keen and want to earn more points, you'll definitely want to stay on top of these! Be sure to pay attention to where segments start and finish, I can't give you a time if you don't hit both ends.

And if you haven't already, don't forget to sign up.

I'll keep it short tonight, but I try to keep the weekly updates fun as well. 😁

Racing News

Again, trying to keep this short tonight, but the BC Road Champs were this weekend with a TT out by the airport on Friday, Road Race in Metchosin on Saturday (rainy!!), and crit in Sidney today, which was VERY fun to watch. Lots of people from this community raced, good on you all for putting yourselves out there!!!

In pro racing, the Giro d'Italia wrapped up today, and Canadian Derek Gee finished 4th overall!! Was hoping to see him make a bigger impact in the last days, but that's still a pretty incredible result. Hope I didn't spoil it for anyone. 😂

Week #1 - June 2nd - June 8th - Santa Clarita Diet

The Segment Challenge is back, and we're starting off in one of my favourite segment playgrounds - Royal Oak! Both are repeats from Season 2 (it's getting a bit harder finding unique segments), but we've got another slow one, and a fast one to kick things off.

Segment 1A Name: Sidestreet Wind-up to Boulderwood
Deets: 1.21km, 69m elevation gain.
This is an existing segment, QOM is The Squaremeat with a 3:06 & KOM is Julian Cameron with a 2:53, and the LL is none!
Link: https://www.strava.com/segments/34731482

This was a segment I came up with using the fun twisty climbs starting down on Lochside, and going all the way up Boulderwood! This features two left hand turns, but both are pretty darn safe. This segment is rated as 5 star punchy! 😂

Segment 1B Name: Santa Clarita
Deets: 1.30km, 0m elevation gain.
This is an existing segment, QOM is jellybeans ! with a 1:38 & KOM is Chuck Dethridge with a 1:35, and LL is Duncan Wood with 11 efforts.
Link: https://www.strava.com/segments/14298081

Nice to start with another speedy one - most should average over 40kph on this! It's just a straight shot down the road, with a slight decline almost the whole way. Take a peek down the road before starting, to make sure you get a clean run, you'll be going faster than any vehicles, so give them a minute, but it's generally a pretty quiet street!

Happy riding!! 

Updated on the site: as always Routing for this week: https://abouttheride.ca/victoria-segment-challenge/

There they are - can't wait to see your times, and hope you enjoy them!

Also - don't forget to sign up if you haven't! Participants are required to sign up for each new season.

That's all for tonight, safe and speedy riding all! 🚲

- Dave

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