Velominati Super Prestige: Elite Women’s World Championship ITT 2013

Kristin Armstrong en route to the Olympic Gold in the women’s ITT.

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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frank

The founder of Velominati and curator of The Rules, Frank was born in the Dutch colonies of Minnesota. His boundless physical talents are carefully canceled out by his equally boundless enthusiasm for drinking. Coffee, beer, wine, if it’s in a container, he will enjoy it, a lot of it. He currently lives in Seattle. He loves riding in the rain and scheduling visits with the Man with the Hammer just to be reminded of the privilege it is to feel completely depleted. He holds down a technology job the description of which no-one really understands and his interests outside of Cycling and drinking are Cycling and drinking. As devoted aesthete, the only thing more important to him than riding a bike well is looking good doing it. Frank is co-author along with the other Keepers of the Cog of the popular book, The Rules, The Way of the Cycling Disciple and also writes a monthly column for the magazine, Cyclist. He is also currently working on the first follow-up to The Rules, tentatively entitled The Hardmen. Email him directly at rouleur@velominati.com.

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frank says:

Sep 24 2013 at 12:09 pm

Update to the results; @deakus take over the lead as we had two Villumsen's in our DB and so some people didn't get their points until I corrected it.

Final Race Results

1. VAN DIJK Ellen

2. VILLUMSEN Linda

3. SMALL Carmen

4. STEVENS Evelyn

5. WORRACK Trixi

Final VSP Results

1. Deakus (14 points)

2. xyxax (13 points)

3. freddy (12 points)

4. Duende (11 points)

5. eightzero (9 points)

6. eenies (9 points)

7. Donnie Bugno (9 points)

8. VeloVita (9 points)

9. razmaspaz (9 points)

10. dancollins (9 points)

...

59. unversio (0 points)
Nate says:

Sep 24 2013 at 12:52 pm

@frank

@Nate

@Steampunk I would have had four right if my iPhone hadn't changed "Van Dijk" to "Van Dojo."

Is that what happened? I was trying to sort out what the fuck you meant by that!

You are too kind to have indulged me on that, but thanks anyway!
Buck Rogers says:

Sep 24 2013 at 1:04 pm

@Nate

@frank

@Nate

@Steampunk I would have had four right if my iPhone hadn't changed "Van Dijk" to "Van Dojo."

Is that what happened? I was trying to sort out what the fuck you meant by that!

You are too kind to have indulged me on that, but thanks anyway!

I think that we might have a new lexicon entry on our hands!

Nate: Serves you right for doing Karate and not Taekwondo (dojangs in TKD, not dojos).
V-inden says:

Sep 24 2013 at 3:28 pm

@Deakus

@frank

@xyxax takes the win in the women's ITT. Also, please note that we will not be doing a VSP for the Mens ITT, but will do one for both the Women and Mens Road Race. (I cocked it up and forgot the Mens race is tomorrow.)

Final Race Results

1. VAN DIJK Ellen

2. VILLUMSEN Linda

3. SMALL Carmen

4. STEVENS Evelyn

5. WORRACK Trixi

Final VSP Results

1. xyxax (13 points)

2. freddy (12 points)

3. Duende (10 points)

4. eightzero (9 points)

5. eenies (9 points)

6. Deakus (9 points)

7. razmaspaz (9 points)

8. dancollins (9 points)

9. sthilzy (8 points)

10. V-inden (8 points)

...

59. unversio (0 points)

Something amiss...i make my score 14.....vilumsen mapped correctly for 2nd but no points credited...?

Ah hell! Good job I spotted this and the updated standings before prematurely celebrating my first top 10 placing in VSP.
Steampunk says:

Sep 24 2013 at 4:47 pm

@Buck Rogers

@Nate

@frank

@Nate

@Steampunk I would have had four right if my iPhone hadn't changed "Van Dijk" to "Van Dojo."

Is that what happened? I was trying to sort out what the fuck you meant by that!

You are too kind to have indulged me on that, but thanks anyway!

I think that we might have a new lexicon entry on our hands!

Nate: Serves you right for doing Karate and not Taekwondo (dojangs in TKD, not dojos).

Right. Because Van Dojang did way better.
eightzero says:

Sep 24 2013 at 8:16 pm

@frank, I'm kinda curious if your magic spreadsheet can produce a VSP leader board for the femme races?
Chica says:

Sep 24 2013 at 10:46 pm

@eightzero

@frank, I'm kinda curious if your magic spreadsheet can produce a VSP leader board for the femme races?

Ooh... you know, I'm curious to see that, too. Great idea!
Steampunk says:

Sep 25 2013 at 5:17 am

Nowhere else sensible to put this at the moment"”and it feels like old news"”but the Team Time Trial: Didn't Garmin used to win these things and/or be right up there? Is it just me, or have they spent this year as pretty much the (distant) best of the rest? They weren't even close to contending. Did they lose key personnel, change priorities, get older, or just watched other teams improve?
xyxax says:

Sep 25 2013 at 7:26 am

@Steampunk

This was in VeloNews yesterday. Maybe it gets indirectly at your question. Has the team hit a low-Vaughter mark?
frank says:

Sep 25 2013 at 8:54 am

@eightzero, @Chica

@eightzero

@frank, I'm kinda curious if your magic spreadsheet can produce a VSP leader board for the femme races?

Ooh... you know, I'm curious to see that, too. Great idea!

Its not a fucking spreadsheet! Its a database and there's lot of complicated technical stuff going on here!

Now that we cleared up how sophisticated the whole system is...we don't actually track if its a mens or a women's event because we're so egalitarian in our coding around here. But I can do it without too much trouble, just a matter of prioritizing it against all the other work in the queue.