Velominati Super Prestige: Grand Prix de Plouay-Bretagne 2013

Emma Pooley wins in 2010

Brittany is the kind of area that produces strong-minded and strong-bodied people; I’m looking at you, Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault. It produces this type of person because that’s what windy farming land does to people. Brittany is also lumped full of short, steep hills, and we all know what that means: its a perfect place for a bike race.

The next installment of the Velominati Super Prestige is the Pro VVomen’s event of the larger Grand Prix Cycliste de Plouay. This is a route for a hardwoman who has some climbing punch. Vos is racing, which basically means that the one person who doesn’t pick her will win the event should she fail to cross the line first. But how likely is that? She is a monster of a racing machine, perhaps the most well-rounded racing Cyclist ever.

Check the start list, and roll the dice. Get your picks in by midnight on the 30th. 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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eightzero says:

Aug 29 2013 at 9:37 am

Vos? Well rounded? See a picture of her?

VSP PICKS:

1. Vos
2. Johansson
3. Kupfernagel
4. Olds
5. Van Dijk
Buck Rogers says:

Aug 29 2013 at 9:41 am

Damn. Cannot open the start list from work (website blocked) but these are my usual suspects of HARDwoMEN for these races!

VSP PICKS:

1. Vos
2. Ellen Van Dijk
3. Emma Johansson
4. Armistead
5. Longo Borghini
stickyjumper says:

Aug 29 2013 at 9:49 am

VSP PICKS:

1. Vos
2. Johansson
3. Van Dijk
4. Longo Borghini
5. Stevens
Sauterelle says:

Aug 29 2013 at 10:04 am

VSP PICKS:

1. Marianne Vos
2. Emma Johansson
3. Valentina Scandolara
4. Anna Van Der Breggen
5. Elisa Longo Borghini
Dan_R says:

Aug 29 2013 at 10:19 am

Should be a great race. Now only if we could find the internet feed....

VSP PICKS:

1. Vos is Boss
2. Borghini
3. Van Dijk
4. Emma J
5. GLAESSER Jasmin
razmaspaz says:

Aug 29 2013 at 10:25 am

VSP PICKS:

1. VOS
2. BRONZINI
3. E STEVENS
4. ARMITSTEAD
5. CROMWELL
Nate says:

Aug 29 2013 at 10:26 am

VSP PICKS:

1. Vos
2. Johanssen
3. Van Dijk
4. Stevens
5. Arimstead
VeloVita says:

Aug 29 2013 at 10:29 am

VSP PICKS:

1. Vos
2. Emma Johansson
3. De Vries
4. Borghini
5. Stevens
jj says:

Aug 29 2013 at 11:32 am

hey! Jacques Anquetil was a Normand (blond, descendant from the vikÃngs): Never mix them with Bretons (black haired of keltic descent)!!!
Nate says:

Aug 29 2013 at 11:37 am

VSP PICKS:

1. Vos
2. Johanssen
3. Van Dijk
4. Stevens
5. ARMITSTEAD