Velominati Super Prestige: VVomen’s Chrono des Nations 2013

Neben kills it in the 2012 edition.

In the days of Anquetil, this was considered the most prestigious individual time trial on the calendar, and he made his name early by winning the event as an amateur at 19. It was also 100km in length, which brings up the point that maybe everyone in our generation should be banned from ever breathing the phrase, “Rule #5”.

These days, there is an actual Worlds ITT, but that doesn’t mean we can’t love this race. The women also get to play in deep end of the pool and although the route is a lot shorter, its still a time trail and time trails mean pain; there’s something to love about that.

Hurry and get your picks in; not a lot of time as we almost delgado’d the last VSP of the year after having our brains melted by Greg LeMond referring to himself casually as a Velominatus.

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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:

Oct 19 2013 at 10:50 am

Not a big field.

VSP PICKS:

1. VAN DIJK Ellen
2. ZABELINSKAYA Olga
3. GILLOW Shara
4. SIMMONS Hayley
5. RITTER Martina
Buck Rogers says:

Oct 19 2013 at 10:53 am

Closing the curtain on another VSP. THANKS Keepers, you guys have been awesome!

VSP PICKS:

1. Amber Nuben
2. Olga Zabelinskaia
3. Alison Tetrick
4. Jeannie Longo
5. Edwide Pitel
Buck Rogers says:

Oct 19 2013 at 10:54 am

@eightzero

Not a big field.

VSP PICKS:

1. VAN DIJK Ellen
2. ZABELINSKAYA Olga
3. GILLOW Shara
4. SIMMONS Hayley
5. RITTER Martina

I know that cycling news has her listed as the favorite but she was not on the start list that I found. Is she really riding?
Buck Rogers says:

Oct 19 2013 at 10:55 am

Wow, Cycling Fans and Cycling Fever have completely different start lists for the 2013 Chronos.
Steampunk says:

Oct 19 2013 at 11:03 am

VSP PICKS:

1. A. Neben
2. E. Van Dijk
3. O. Zabelinskaia
4. L. Brennauer
5. J. Longo
Gianni says:

Oct 19 2013 at 11:37 am

HELLO! He said Greg LeMan referred to himself as a Velominatus. Are you people paying attention here?
RedRanger says:

Oct 19 2013 at 11:49 am

@Gianni

HELLO! He said Greg LeMan referred to himself as a Velominatus. Are you people paying attention here?

I was half asleep this morning and I caught it on FB. Pretty amazing. Makes me proud to be part of this community
plynie says:

Oct 19 2013 at 12:02 pm

VSP PICKS:

1. Amber Neben
2. Olga Zabelinskaia
3. Jeannie Longo
4. Elodie Rival
5. Alison Tetrick
Chris says:

Oct 19 2013 at 12:05 pm

That'll be the last we see of Frank for a while, his head must have exploded when he saw that!
Bianchi Denti says:

Oct 19 2013 at 12:24 pm

Seems to be multiple start lists, depending where you look. So it's a crap shoot.

VSP PICKS:

1. Olga Zabalinskaya
2. Patricia Schwager
3. Edwige Pitel
4. Liesbeth de Vocht
5. Fanny Leleu