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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Deakus says:

Oct 20 2013 at 12:48 am

Bollocks! Delgado'd....
zeitzmar says:

Oct 20 2013 at 1:47 am

@Deakus it happens to the best of us...
scaler911 says:

Oct 20 2013 at 5:41 am

Merckx damn it! Got side tracked by cow wrapped in pork on the BBQ and IPA last night. Ah well..............
eenies says:

Oct 20 2013 at 6:00 am

@Buck Rogers

@eenies

@DCR

After looking at the start list on the official site I'm changing my picks.

http://www.chronodesnations.com/19-liste-des-engages

VSP PICKS:

1. neben
2. zabelinskaia
3. tetrick
4. shaw
5. pitel

You are changing your picks based on a link to the 2013 race?

Have another drink, mate!

I had plenty already with that cheeky wee bottle of red. Maybe I should stick to IPA in the future.
Buck Rogers says:

Oct 20 2013 at 6:31 am

@eenies

@Buck Rogers

@eenies

@DCR

After looking at the start list on the official site I'm changing my picks.

http://www.chronodesnations.com/19-liste-des-engages

VSP PICKS:

1. neben
2. zabelinskaia
3. tetrick
4. shaw
5. pitel

You are changing your picks based on a link to the 2013 race?

Have another drink, mate!

I had plenty already with that cheeky wee bottle of red. Maybe I should stick to IPA in the future.

Ha! With the red wine for dinner that CannuckChuck brought, then 3 different scotches, 3 different bourbons and the wheat whiskey that MJ brought, I was SPINNING for hours last night!

T-38 minutes 'til roll out! Espresso machine brewing overtime! Thanks for the Beans, Steamy!!!
starclimber says:

Oct 20 2013 at 8:26 am

Live here:
DCR says:

Oct 20 2013 at 8:49 am

1
28
Solovey Hanna
Ukraine team
00h28'24 "740
00h00'00 "00

2
3
Alison Tetrick
Exergy TWENTY 16
00h29'07 "890
00h00'43 "00

3
30
Elisa Longo Borghini
Hitec
00h29'23 "760
00h00'59 "00

4
2
Olga Zabelinskaia
RUSVELO
00h29'25 "060
00h01'01 "00

5
6
Edwige Pitel
SC Michela Fanini
00h29'29 "430
00h01'05 "00
the Engine says:

Oct 20 2013 at 8:55 am

@strathlubnaig

@JohnB

1st VSP for me comes to a close. Ok start, average middle, 1 point an event at the end. Here's to bettering mid table obscurity in 2014. It's been fun.

VSP PICKS:

1. Amber Neben
2. Olga Zabelinskaia
3. Elisa Longo Borghini
4. Melodie Lesueur
5. Julia Shaw

130 pts so far, not too shabby, loon, just ahead of my 124 pts, but the important thing is we both came ahead of @The Engine

S'ok I Delgadoed for the first time this year - still recovering from my message from LeMan
JohnB says:

Oct 20 2013 at 9:06 am

@strathlubnaig

couple of sweaty socks in the mix just for laughs.

VSP PICKS:

1. Neben
2. Zabelinskaya
3. Longo Borghini
4. Burgess
5. Turvey

I had both the Scots in my first picks too but the desire to try to score some points took over! Even though she's a triathlete Turvey is handy in a TT and way better than Jay.
Optimiste says:

Oct 20 2013 at 11:27 am

@Gianni

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

Still processing...