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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mouse says:

Sep 23 2013 at 5:31 am

VSP PICKS:

1. Linda Villumsen
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Eleanora Van Dijk
4. Emma Johannsen
5. Shara Gillow
il ciclista medio says:

Sep 23 2013 at 6:03 am

VSP PICKS:

1. GUNNEWIJK
2. GIllow
3. Stevens E.
4. Van Dijk
5. Johannson
Mike_P says:

Sep 23 2013 at 6:15 am

Here we go for my guaranteed zero points....

VSP PICKS:

1. Gillow
2. Van Dijk
3. Emma Pooley
4. Lopez Morales
5. Borghini
Mike_P says:

Sep 23 2013 at 6:26 am

@unversio

@scaler911

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.........

Thanx

That's interesting cos the UCI website is still showing her on the start list. Got to love the UCI (well maybe not).

VSP PICKS:

1. Gillow
2. Van Dijk
3. Johansson
4. Lopez Morales
5. Borghini
Buck Rogers says:

Sep 23 2013 at 6:31 am

Lots of love for Gillow on here. Do not know her well enough to pick her.

For those of you picking Vos, per the listed start sheet in comment #1 she is only doing the road race, not the ITT.

I went through that listed start sheet and wrote down all the names I knew and ended up with 11 riders. Then I realized that only six that I knew were riding the ITT. Made it easier to pick! Total guesses as to order! I really need to learn more women pro's!

VSP PICKS:

1. Stevens, Evelyn
2. Longo Borghini, Elisa
3. Van Dijk, E
4. Johansson, Emma
5. Gunnewijk, L
VeloVita says:

Sep 23 2013 at 6:39 am

VSP PICKS:

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

Sep 23 2013 at 6:39 am

VSP PICKS:

1. Van Dijk
2. E Stevens
3. Emma Johansson
4. Borghini
5. Villumsen
Tobin says:

Sep 23 2013 at 8:00 am

VSP PICKS:

1. Van Dijk
2. Evelyn Stevens
3. Sarah Gillow
4. Lisa Brennauer
5. Longo Borghini
Deakus says:

Sep 23 2013 at 8:39 am

@Mike_P

Here we go for my guaranteed zero points....

VSP PICKS:

1. Gillow
2. Van Dijk
3. Emma Pooley
4. Lopez Morales
5. Borghini

Well you are giving yourself a headstart Pooley is not riding...
Lukas says:

Sep 23 2013 at 9:11 am

VSP PICKS:

1. E. Stevens
2. L. Brennauer
3. e. Van Dijk
4. e. Johansson
5. T. Thorsen