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.

[vsp_results id=”27353″/]

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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jeyrod says:

Sep 23 2013 at 7:29 pm

VSP PICKS:

1. Stevens
2. villumsen
3. van dijk
4. gillow
5. small
San Tonio says:

Sep 23 2013 at 9:57 pm

VSP PICKS:

1. Evelyn Stevens
2. Emma Johannson
3. Van Dijk
4. Borghini
5. Villmusen
San Tonio says:

Sep 23 2013 at 9:58 pm

Will there be a UCI presidential election VSP?
roger says:

Sep 23 2013 at 10:02 pm

when i dont delgado, i pick who everyone else does

VSP PICKS:

1. eve stevens
2. gillow
3. emma johannson
4. borghini
5. van dijk
zeitzmar says:

Sep 23 2013 at 10:12 pm

VSP PICKS:

1. Van Dijk
2. Stevens
3. Borghini
4. Johansson
5. Villumsen
jeyrod says:

Sep 24 2013 at 8:19 am

Results

1. Van Dijk

2. Villumsen

3. Small

4. Stevens

5. Worrack

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uci-road-world-championships-2013/elite-women-time-trial/results
eenies says:

Sep 24 2013 at 8:19 am

Van Dijk stomped that one...2nd again for the Danish Kiwi and Small beating her teammate Evie Stevie to the bronze by .004 secs. That was a batshit fast womens TT and quite entertaining. Canna wait for Sir Wiggo v Ratpack v Faboo.
xyxax says:

Sep 24 2013 at 8:29 am

@Buck Rogers

I took out Malls and put in Will Go.

Serves me right.

Deakus FTW
frank says:

Sep 24 2013 at 8:55 am

@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)
Deakus says:

Sep 24 2013 at 9:31 am

Er....it appears i have not been credited with correctly picking villumsrn forbsecond even though it has mapped?