Velominati Super Prestige: Elite Women’s World Championship ITT 2013
There is something about a time trial that lets you go spelunking in undiscovered caverns of The Cave. Contort your body into the sleekest position you can, make the bike as uncomfortable as possible, and then rev your cardiovascular system up to the anaerobic threshold for as long as possible. Its food for legend.
Being a diesel helps, churning the legs over under sustained effort with little variation in effort. Being the perfect amount of dumb doesn’t hurt either – you have to be just smart enough to be to push yourself to your limits without chasing someone, but not so smart that you realize it would hurt less to go easier. If I was made for a discipline, its this one.
It’s September, the leaves are starting to turn, and the VSP keeps chugging along, this time with the VVomen’s World Championship ITT. Stay tuned for a busy week of events as we’ll be doing both the Road Race and IIT for both the Men and the VVomen.
If you can find the start list, study it. Then the study the stars, tea leaves, and anything else you believe will make your picks not suck.
Good luck.
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Here’s a startlist.
http://www.uci.ch/Modules/BUILTIN/getObject.asp?MenuId=&ObjTypeCode=FILE&type=FILE&id=ODkyMzA&LangId=1
Hopefully a kind webmaster will fix my empty “link”. From Steephill.
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Emma Johannsen
3. Elenora Van Dijk
4. Shara Gillow
5. Emma Pooley
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Emma Pooley
3. Van Dijk
4. Emma Johannsen
5. Shar Gillow
VSP PICKS:
1. Van Dijk
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Emma Johannsen
4. Pooley
5. Inga Cilvinaite
VSP PICKS:
1. BRONZINI Giorgia
2. VOS Marianne
3. RITTER Martina
4. ARMITSTEAD Elizabeth
5. MOOLMAN Ashleigh
VSP PICKS:
1. Evie Stevens
2. Van Dijk
3. Emma Johansson
4. Longo Borghini
5. Emma Pooley
VSP PICKS:
1. LONGO BORGHINI Elisa
2. JOHANSSON Emma
3. POOLEY Emma
4. RITTER Martina
5. SABLIKOVA Martina
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Ellen Van Dijk
3. Linda Villumsen
4. Emma Pooley
5. Elisa Longo Borghinin
For those that care: Emma Pooley dropped out at 7pm on the 20th. I know that VSP uses that fucking hack of a site cyclingnews for startlists, but may I humbly suggest cyclingfever? I’ve had nothing but good luck with start lists, results, past results and whatnot. Not great for live/ streaming coverage (I’d offer up cyclingfans for that. Mostly good results there for streaming).
Anyway, off to research………
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens
2. Van Dijk
3. Johansson, E
4. Villumsen
5. Brûlée
VSP PICKS:
1. Van Dijk, Ellen
2. Linda Melanie Villumsen
3. BRENNAUER Lisa
4. Small, Carmen
5. STEVENS Evelyn
@scaler911
+1 Cycling Fever.
Nice use of the accent circonflexe.
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Linda Villumsen
3. Van Dijk
4. Emma Johannsen
5. Shar Gillow
Villumsen’s whole year is geared towards this!
VSP PICKS:
1. Linda Villumsen
2. Ellen van Dijk
3. Evelyn Stevens
4. Tatiana Antoshina
5. Carmen Small
VSP PICKS:
1. Emma Pooley
2. Elisa LONGO BORGHINI
3. Eleonora VAN DIJK
4. Emma Johansson
5. Evelyn Stevens
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VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Ellen van Dijk
3. Emma Johansson
4. Linda Villumsen
5. Shara Gillow
VSP PICKS:
1. Evie Stevie
2. Emma Johannson
3. Elisa Longo Borghini
4. Shara Gillow
5. Lisa Brennauer
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Emma Johannsen
3. Elenora Van Dijk
4. Shara Gillow
5. Linda Villumsen
VSP PICKS:
1. LONGO BORGHINI Elisa
2. JOHANSSON Emma
3. GUNNEWIJK Loes
4. RITTER Martina
5. SABLIKOVA Martina
@scaler911
Thanx
VSP PICKS:
1. Van Dijk
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Emma Johannsen
4. Elisa Longo Borghinin
5. Inga Cilvinaite
VSP PICKS:
1. Linda Villumsen
2. Emma Johansson
3. VOS Marianne
4. LONGO BORGHINI Elisa
5. Evelyn Stevens
Overthinking…
VSP PICKS:
1. Linda Villumsen
2. Ellen van Dijk
3. Evelyn Stevens
4. Shara Gillow
5. Audrey Cordon
Don’t say it….
VSP PICKS:
1. Van Dijk
2. Johanssen
3. Borghini
4. Ramsden
5. Worrack
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Emma Johansson
3. Ellen Van Dijk
4. Elisa Longo Borghini
5. Loes Gunnewijk
And that last one is to help me get educated by forcing me to pay attention to the whole race. Tracking an ITT is mind-numbing unless you have some kind of skin in the game. Hence, I will be pulling for Enkhjargal Tuvshinjargal, the hope of Mongolia.
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyen Stevens
2. Emma Johansoon
3. Linda Villumsen
4. Ellen Van Dijk
5. Enkhjargal Tuvshinjargal
Hup Hup Ellen
VSP PICKS:
1. E. van Dijk
2. C. Small
3. S Gillow
4. L. Villumsen
5. A. Burchenkova
VSP PICKS:
1. E. van Dijk
2. C. Small
3. S Gillow
4. E. Stevens
5. L. Villumsen
@eightzero
Losing the faith?
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Emma Pooley
3. Emma Johannsen
4. Van Dijk
5. LONGO BORGHINI Elisa
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens
2. Johanssen
3. Gillow
4. Borghini
5. Van Dijk
VSP PICKS:
1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Elisa Longo Borghini
3. Carmen Small
4. Linda Villumsen
5. Ellen Van Dijk
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens
2. Villumsen
3. Van dojo
4. Worrack
5. Zabelinskays
VSP PICKS:
1. Villumsen
2. Stevens
3. Bourghini
4. Johanssen
5. Gillow
VSP PICKS:
1. Villumsen
2. VanDijk
3. Pooley
4. Stevens
5. Bourghini
When are you putting up the VSP for the men’s road race? We’re leaving for Firenze on Thursday morning and I don’t want to Delgado!
Seriously I have little or no idea.
Thanks to Scaler re Emma Pooley, I always reach for her……
VSP PICKS:
1. Linda Villumsen
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Emma johanssen
4. Shara Gillow
5. Thea Thorsen
VSP PICKS:
1. E Stevens
2. E Van Dijk
3. E Johansson
4. E Borghini
5. L Gunnewijk
VSP PICKS:
1. Linda Villumsen
2. Ellen van Dijk
3. Evelyn Stevens
4. Emma Pooley
5. Shara Gillow
VSP PICKS:
1. Linda Villumsen
2. Ellen van Dijk
3. Evelyn Stevens
4. Shara Gillow
5. Trixie Worrack
Distinct lack of preparation due to stumbling across this one, but here goes:
VSP PICKS:
1. Linda Villumsen
2. Evie Stevens
3. Marianne Vos
4. Ellen van Dijk
5. Emma Johannsen
Here we go on another wild guess
VSP PICKS:
1. Borghini, Elisa
2. Johansson, emma
3. Stevens, emma
4. Van Djik, ellen
5. Gillow, shara
VSP PICKS:
1. Bronzini
2. Borghini
3. stevens, evie
4. vos
5. armitstead
No coverage on Eurosport but live coverage on BBC 2 for those of you that purchase a good old fashioned British TV licence.
VSP PICKS:
1. Ellen Van Dijk
2. Lisa Brennauer
3. Shara Gillow
4. Linda Villumsen
5. Evelyn Stevens
Haven’t got a scooby doo. I am blessed with a diesel engine, but I lack the perfect amount of dumb, or does that mean I have the perfect amount of smarts….I’ve got a headache, I need to go lie down!
VSP PICKS:
1. Van Dijk Chick
2. Villumsen
3. Even Stevens
4. Worrack
5. Emma Johansson
VSP PICKS:
1. LONGO BORGHINI Elisa
2. STEVENS Evelyn
3. JOHANSSON Emma
4. VAN DIJK Ellen
5. GILLOW Shara
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens
2. Villumsen
3. Longo Borghini
4. Van Dijk
5. Worrack
I can’t bloody wait for this! Although as the owner of a “good old fashioned” TV licence I’m hopeful that Aunty doesn’t make quite such a fiasco out of the coverage as she did for the Olympic Road Race!
VSP PICKS:
1. Ellen van Dijk
2. Emma Johansson
3. Evelyn Stevens
4. Sarah Gillow
5. Lisa Brennauer
VSP PICKS:
1. Van Dijk
2. Borghini
3. Johansson
4. Stevens
5. Villumsen
Go the girls.
VSP PICKS:
1. Stevens
2. Johansson
3. Van dijik
4. Gillow
5. Borghini