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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dancollins says:

Oct 19 2013 at 6:18 pm

VSP PICKS:

1. Olga Zabelinskaya
2. Hanna Solovey
3. Elisa Long Borgini
4. Patricia Schwager
5. Edwige Pitel
Adrian says:

Oct 19 2013 at 6:37 pm

VSP PICKS:

1. neben
2. de vocht
3. BrÃ»lÃ©e
4. Pitel
5. Longo
Ron says:

Oct 19 2013 at 6:37 pm

Woah, LeMan is a Follower? Congratulations Keepers! You've got the biggest Follower of all...and we can all start buying his bikes again!

Good lord, I just re-watched the Angliru climb from this year's Vuelta. Haven't we had some insane weather and stages this year? The Giro, the Vuelta, damn. What a ride from Kenny E!

How big is that guy? He looks Mottet-ed.

VSP PICKS:

1. Tetrick Alison
2. Neben Amber
3. Lesueur MÃ©lodie
4. Pitel Edwige
5. OÃ¢??Donnell Bridie
xyxax says:

Oct 19 2013 at 7:12 pm

Thanks to the Keepers for another great season and the work they put in to it.

VSP PICKS:

1. Elisa Longo Borghini
2. Olga Zabelinskaya
3. Hanna Solovey
4. Amber Neben
5. Liesbeth De Vocht
xyxax says:

Oct 19 2013 at 7:14 pm

@Sauterelle

cool name.
Nate says:

Oct 19 2013 at 7:24 pm

Thanks Keepers for yet another great year. Chapeau @dancollins; please report to the controle dopage.

VSP PICKS:

1. zabelinskaya
2. neben
3. longho borghini
4. soloveny
5. van dijk
Heihachi says:

Oct 19 2013 at 8:05 pm

VSP PICKS:

1. Neben
2. Zabelinskaya
3. Longo Borghini
4. Solovey
5. Longo
freddy says:

Oct 19 2013 at 8:20 pm

Thanks to the Keepers for a great season especially for including the women's races which forced me to check out the talent beyond Vos (who is awesome).

VSP PICKS:

1. Zabelinskaya
2. Neben
3. Stienen
4. Longo Borghini
5. Solovey
VeloVita says:

Oct 19 2013 at 8:31 pm

X

VSP PICKS:

1. Neben
2. Zabelinskya
3. Longo Borghini
4. Solovy
5. Stienen
girl says:

Oct 19 2013 at 8:37 pm

Lets go Ladies!

VSP PICKS:

1. Tetrick
2. Neben
3. Borghini
4. Solovey
5. Pitel