OBC Women's TT Series - 2012-Jul-24 - 15km (Rockliffe Pkwy) (EvtFactor= 0.9054)

Ottawa Weather (18:00): Partly Cloudy. Temperature: 24°C, Humidity: 42%, Dew point: 11°C, Wind: NNW 24 gust 36km/h, Pressure: 100.8kPa, Vis: 10km, Humidex: 26.
Ottawa Weather (19:00): Partly Cloudy. Temperature: 24°C, Humidity: 44%, Dew point: 11°C, Wind: NNW 32km/h, Pressure: 100.8kPa, Vis: 10km, Humidex: 25.
Ottawa Weather (20:00): Mostly Cloudy. Temperature: 21°C, Humidity: 53%, Dew point: 12°C, Wind: NNW 22km/h, Pressure: 101.0kPa, Vis: 10km, Humidex: *.

Well the air pressure was good at less than 101, and there were only a few raindrops to contend with at the end of the race, but strong, gusty winds from the NNW made it rather difficult to control some of our squirmy time trial bikes. If you look at the pictures of tonight's event, you will see that about half of us were off of our aero bars as we approached the finish line - We felt unsafe on them! Amazingly, three women managed to improve upon their 2012 WTT previous best 15km time trial! It was no surprise that last week's new rider Claire Menzel had a phenomenal improvement, but WOW her cube speed increased by 79.47%! Last week she rode the event on a hybrid bicycle with long jeans. She did 37:16. This week, dressed for success in cycling shorts and riding a road bike, she did 30:40. The bike probably gave her a few minutes and the clothes might have been almost as helpful. The second most improved at 12.45% was Laura Johnson (24:39), who enjoyed using Alex Buffa's fast wheels. He claimed that they would increase her speed by a couple of km/h. Sharolyn Higgs also improved, and along with the fastest lady, Veronik Bourgon, improved upon her previous database best. Veronik claimed that her tri-spoke wheels actually worked better with today's strong side winds than they had in the 2012-Jul-19 open time trial - She indicated that she averaged 10 watts less, and yet rode 29 seconds faster! Those of us with deep-dished rims seemed to be the most adversely affected by tonght's conditions, being pushed out into the middle of the road. Maybe we're better to view our wheels as worthwhile in keeping us out there having fun on the course for more time! I'd also like to recognize the accomplishment of a para-athlete, Kim Fawcett, who had a prosthesis in place of a right leg. She managed to do 36:08 which is 24.908km/h. This is an incredible achievement!

These results were posted on the OBC site circa 22:00 on 2012-Jul-24 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 look after the data entry. Historically, for the decade starting in 1998 I had all of the WTT series up within a few hours of the event, and likewise for the OTT series from 1999-2002 and again in 2006. More recently, I have written web software which can run from the start/finish lines to register, seed, calculate rider times from elapsed times and database the results immediately. 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?
s		1	Bourgon, Veronik	---	21:47	41.316	1/30	U30F	1/4
		2	Vadeboncoeur, Jacinthe	OBC	23:34	38.190	2/30	U60F	1/6	0.9895
		3	Flynn, Emily	T&L	23:39	38.055	3/30	U30F	2/4	0.9894
		4	Dréano, Claude	OBC	23:42	37.975	4/30	U40F	1/6	0.8768
		5	Higgs, Sharolyn	OBC/CYF	23:48	37.815	5/30	U40F	2/6	1.0470
		6	Revesz, Erika	OBC	24:14	37.139	6/30	U60F	2/6
		7	Blagdon, Wendy	OBC	24:20	36.986	7/30	U50F	1/7	0.9416
		8	Johnson, Laura	OBC	24:39	36.511	8/30	U40F	3/6	1.1245
		9	Cormier, Natalie	CYF	25:15	35.644	9/30	U30F	3/4	0.8950
		10	Ingham, Alison	OBC/RWR	25:23	35.456	10/30	U50F	2/7	0.8330
		11	Coney, Ingrid	OBC	25:27	35.363	11/30	U60F	3/6	0.9309
		12	Rees, Stephanie	GGR	25:34	35.202	12/30	U40F	4/6	0.8854
		13	Johnson, Nicola	OBC	26:04	34.527	13/30	U50F	3/7	0.9036
		14	Norman, Gwyn	OBC	26:13	34.329	14/30	U40F	5/6	0.9293
		15	Chase, Jasmine	OBC	26:26	34.048	15/30	U17F	1/2	0.9571
		16	Hébert, Lisa & LaViolette, Nicole	OBC	27:16	33.007	16/30	TTT	1/1	0.8720
		17	McInnis, Celia	ABC/CYF	27:20	32.927	17/30	U60F	4/6	0.8410
		18	Gilker, Naomi	OBC	27:26	32.807	18/30	U40F	6/6	0.8464
		19	Nowoselski, Shiree	OBC	27:28	32.767	19/30	U50F	4/7
		20	Brown, Carole	OBC	27:29	32.747	20/30	U50F	5/7	0.9084
		21	Ajersch, Mary	OBC	27:51	32.316	21/30	U80F	1/1	0.9367
		22	Antonietti, Jetje	OBC	28:38	31.432	22/30	U60F	5/6	0.9103
		23	Follett, Sarah	OBC	28:47	31.268	23/30	U30F	4/4	0.9255
		24	Delaney, Anna	OBC	28:52	31.178	24/30	U70F	1/1	0.9743
		25	Menzel, Claire	OBC	30:40	29.348	25/30	U17F	2/2	1.7947
		26	Robitaille, Devon	OBC	30:52	29.158	26/30	U15M	1/1	0.9367
		27	Caron, Lili	OBC	33:55	26.536	27/30	U50F	6/7	0.8584
		28	Fawcett, Kim	OBC	36:08	24.908	28/30	U50F	7/7
		29	MacDonald, Jackie	OBC	37:01	24.313	29/30	U90F	1/1	0.8907
		30	Pazdzior, Ellen	OBC	DNF		30/30	U60F	6/6
			Average Speed of all of the above 29 finishes (435km in 13:09:48):						33.046
>>>			Average of the Average Speeds for these 29 finishes						33.561	<<<

Thanks to our Helpers: Alex Buffa, Lili Caron, Nicolas Dery, Morley Dore, Jim Glover, Lisa Hébert, Jacinthe Vadeboncoeur, Don Wilson, Geoffrey Wright.