OBC Women's TT Series - 2011-Aug-16 - 15km (Rockliffe Pkwy) (EvtFactor= 0.9491)

Weather (18:00): Sunny. Temperature: 26°C, Humidity: 47%, Dew point: 13°C, Wind: NW 22km/h, Pressure: 101.3kPa, Vis: 24km, Humidex: 29.
Weather (19:00): Sunny. Temperature: 25°C, Humidity: 48%, Dew point: 13°C, Wind: N 21km/h, Pressure: 101.4kPa, Vis: 24km, Humidex: 28.
Weather (20:00): Sunny. Temperature: 23°C, Humidity: 52%, Dew point: 12°C, Wind: N 11km/h, Pressure: 101.5kPa, Vis: 24km, Humidex: 25.

This wasn't a particularly easy night with strong North cross winds blowing off of the river. Tougher for some than the winds though was the avoidance of the large number OBC Tuesday Night Tour riders who chose to do their ride on the time trial course during the time trial! Hopefully the OBC will better coordinate its programmes in the future so that both the WTT and Tuesday Night rides can proceed safely and not interfere with each other. Despite the aforementioned difficulties, three women managed to improve upon their previous 15km database bests - and these improvements were all significant! Laura Johnson, who with Alex Buffa's faster wheels took a minute and six seconds off of her previous best of 26:22 was the most improved with a 13.64% improvement in her cube speed. Lindsay Los has improved her 15km database best three times this year, this time by about 5% with her new best of 24:19, 24 seconds faster than her previous best. Finally Patricia Slaunwhite was the 3rd most improved (about 2%) with a new database best of 26:34, 11 seconds better than her previous mark. Note that first place woman Alicia Berthiaume tied her previous database best of 23:51 which was first set on 2011-Jul-19, but Alison Ingham and Nicole LaViolette who tied for second place with 24:14 were far off of their previous 2011 WTT bests of 23:31 and 23:28, respectively. In terms of season-series improvements tonight, nine improved and one tied her season series best. In addition to those already mentioned for their database improvements, the season-series improvers are Nicole MacDonald (28:25, performance ratio 1.0813), Christina Czaban (24:40, performance ratio 1.0307, Zoe Panchen (26:01, performance ratio 1.0291), Karen Byskov (30:05, performance ratio 1.0201), Lili Caron (34:56, performance ratio 1.0129) and Mary Ajersch (26:34, performance ratio 1.0094). One rider, Anna Delaney did not finish - She crashed into a cyclist who veered out into her path as she tried to pass.

Note that you may check to see where you are in terms of the WTT category rankings (best five WTT rides with four of those having to be 15km events and the fifth being either a 10km or a 15km WTT) by clicking here. There are currently 28 women in the rankings.

These results were posted on the OBC site circa 21:30 on 2011-Aug-16 and are available here for your added pleasure and analysis.

(Lest complaints about me just lazily sucking in the results surface, I wish to make it perfectly clear that I would gladly do the data entry, getting the results up within a few of hours of the event, as history shows that I did for the WTT series for the decade beginning in 1998, and for the OTT series from 1999-2002 and again in 2006. The OBC Board however, not only won't let me volunteer here, but strangely enough they actually expelled me from the OBC for donating this time trial web site to you !)

										PB Yr-Ser Pre PB Spd Yr-Ser Pre PB Yr-Ser-Crs Pre PB Spd Yr-Ser-Crs Pre PB Yr Pre PB Spd Yr Pre PB Yr-Ser #Pre PB Spd Yr-Ser #Pre PB Yr #Pre PB Spd Yr #Pre PB Db Pre PB Db Crs Pre PB Spd Db Pre PB Yr-Ser PB Spd Yr-Ser PB Yr PB Spd Yr PB Db PB Spd Db PB Spd Shown PB Spd Shown Pre CB Yr-Ser CB Db Pre CB Yr Pre CB Spd Yr-Ser CB Yr CB Spd Yr CB Db CB Spd Db CB Spd Shown GB Yr-Ser GB Spd Yr-Ser GB Yr GB Spd Yr GB Db GB Spd Db GB Spd Shown SubGrp B Spd B Spd Shown
BESTS?
		1	Berthiaume, Alicia	OBC	23:51	37.736	1/28	U40F	1/8	1.0000
		2	Ingham, Alison	OBC/RWR	24:14	37.139	2/28	U50F	1/7	0.9140
			LaViolette, Nicole	OBC	24:14	37.139	2/28	U50F	1/7	0.9080
		4	Los, Lindsay	OBC	24:19	37.012	4/28	U30F	1/3	1.0500
		5	Rees, Stephanie	OBC	24:39	36.511	5/28	U40F	2/8	0.9780
		6	Czaban, Christina	OBC	24:40	36.486	6/28	U30F	2/3	1.0310
s		7	Flynn, Emily	EMD	24:57	36.072	7/28	U19F	1/1
		8	McInnis, Celia	ABC/CYF	25:14	35.667	8/28	U60F	1/4	0.9340
		9	Johnson, Laura  (enjoyed Alex Buffa's wheels!)	OBC/CYF	25:16	35.620	9/28	U40F	3/8	1.1360
		10	Gorman, Janine	OBC	25:32	35.248	10/28	U40F	4/8	0.9520
		11	Coney, Ingrid	OBC	25:49	34.861	11/28	U60F	2/4	0.9030
			Vadeboncoeur, Jacinthe	OBC	25:49	34.861	11/28	U60F	2/4	0.9510
			Vipond, Jenny	CYC	25:49	34.861	11/28	U30F	3/3	0.9980
		14	Higgs, Sharolyn	OBC/CYF	25:58	34.660	14/28	U40F	5/8	0.9530
		15	Panchen, Zoe	OBC	26:01	34.593	15/28	U50F	3/7	1.0290
		16	Ajersch, Mary	OBC	26:34	33.877	16/28	U80F	1/1	1.0090
			Slaunwhite, Patricia	OBC	26:34	33.877	16/28	U50F	4/7	1.0210
		18	Hébert, Lisa	OBC	26:51	33.520	18/28	U50F	5/7	0.9150
		19	Konantz, Patricia	OBC/RWR	27:04	33.251	19/28	U60F	4/4	0.9710
		20	Nowoselski, Shiree	OBC	28:17	31.821	20/28	U50F	6/7	0.9480
		21	MacDonald, Nicole	OBC	28:25	31.672	21/28	U40F	6/8	1.0810
		22	Gilker, Naomi	OBC	28:44	31.323	22/28	U40F	7/8	0.9620
		23	Gildner, Emily	OBC	28:49	31.232	23/28	U70F	1/3	0.9320
		24	Burton, Myriam	CYF	28:54	31.142	24/28	U17F	1/1	0.9360
		25	Wilson, Barbara	OBC	29:28	30.543	25/28	U70F	2/3	0.9800
		26	Byskov, Karen	OBC	30:05	29.917	26/28	U40F	8/8	1.0200
		27	Caron, Lili  (removed the tire bag!)	OBC	34:56	25.763	27/28	U50F	7/7	1.0130
		28	Delaney, Anna  (accident in passing a cyclist who veered out into her path)	OBC	DNF		28/28	U70F	3/3
			Average Speed of all of the above 27 finishes (405km in 12:01:03):						33.701
>>>			Average of the Average Speeds for these 27 finishes						33.941	<<<

Thanks to our Helpers: Veronique Boily, Alex Buffa, Nicolas Dery, Morley Dore, Alison Ingham, Zoe Panchen, Don Wilson.