So the dog ate my homework, or in this case my Wordpress Newsletter plugin... I hit 'Next' before the page fully loaded, which also 'saves' the 'changes', which effectively wiped it out. I've emailed the developer..there's a 'back to last save' option as well, but it didn't work...so literally everything I had written was gone. Ugh. So here's a quick abridged revision of what I sent out!

Sounds like peeps enjoyed last week's segments, and already hearing positive things about this week, so go check 'em out, the week looks great!

I had a little fun with the Swan Lake Creek title, looked up a 'heavy metal song title' generator and found that amusing....for a pretty tame segment. 😂

Thanks again to all who've chipped in, it's heartwarming to have you support the series! 🥰

Let's carry on with the updates!

Racing News

WARNING: Spoilers abound!

Yesterday we were up in Nanaimo at Bowen Park for the 3rd Cross on the Rock, and had a pretty huge turnout! Around 50 riders from Vancouver pedaled over from teh ferry as well, pretty cool! Find the results here.

I wrote a ton more as there was a bunch of races last weekend, amazing to see Jackson Goldstone with the Mont Sainte Anne downhill, and overall! He was really the only notable Canadian other than Bella Holmgren who once again cleaned up.

The standout for me was Jenny Rissveds who won both the Short Track and Cross Country races, and both by a larger margin than anyone else, topping Prevot's time from 2014, winning the XC by over 3 minutes. Insane. All her lap times were well under 12mins, and no one else cracked 12.

HOUSEKEEPING

Notes for the week:

Not much other than redoing this!

Reminder if your time didn't record (this week or any), please either tag me in your ride, comment on the Strava group post, or send me an email -- if you rode it, I can usually figure out a 'manual' time for you, but you need to let me know!

1 <- THIS MANY WEEKS WITHOUT AN ERROR 🤣

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

SPONSORS AD

I had written something like:

This email sponsored by LetsAllSueGarmin dot com!

Garmin is being sued by Strava, because segments (which Garmin actually 'invented' before Strava), and the head of Strava posted on Reddit that this is to 'protect your data'....except what Strava wants is for anyone using their API to pull (ironically) 'your data', they want a label added that it 'came from Strava'. The head of Strava is a clown.

And turns out Suunto the watch company is also suing, I'm didn't look too deeply but it also seemed rather frivolous.

So now I've gone to LetsAllSueStrava dot com because when I got my Garmin, I didn't expect them to get sued so much, so I'm suing them for that.

SOUNDTRACK NOTES

Note: 'back in my day' people talked about music, albums, etc.. Doesn't really seem to happen much these days, so I'm carrying on the tradition here! 😊

Sorry just blasting through! 🎶

THIS WEEK IN RIDES

For those new to the series, results are tabulated each week, and the event page has all the results updated each Sunday night! To see the weekly results, hit the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet.

The A's

I had summed up the overall for each group, some cool battles going on, but can't redo it all, sorry...

The B's

The C's

BONUSES & CURSES

See the Scoring section of the Event Page for more details - note that there aren't any curses for the Gravel Edition!

No KOM or QOM points this week.

• Early Bird was Mark B
• No secret time
• Mark B gets the Socialite points
  (Post a shot of your ride on IG or FB and tag @AboutTheRideCA for a chance for 5pts each week! If you've posted, but I haven't given you credit, or liked or commented on your post, please DM me directly, IG has been a bit finicky.)

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!

A big thank you to Fairfield Bikes and Russ Hay's for the draw prizes this week! I've pulled for 6 riders, for 3 lights, plus some leftover items, and the Google randomizer has decided the following are worthy of a draw prize this week:

Josh Durgin
Tanya B
Sarah DeVries
Mark Classen
Ken Trudgeon
Sonya Bird

Congrats!! I'll email you hopefully later today with the details!

Our prize page is live on the site, a bunch of updates, and lots more to come, but for now take a peek!

So many bridges this week, here's Florence!

And the start of Langford Lake

And this particularly distinct finish!

Hope you have fun up Mt Pise!

I've got an ISO (In Search Of) - looking for a colour (or B&W) printer, partly for printing up Segment Challenge and other event posters, and next year we have some more races in the works, and will need to post road signs, and would save a bundle in printing fees, so if anyone has one kicking around they're not using, gimme a holler!

That's about it for this week, safe and speedy riding all! 🚲

- Dave

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