Ottawa Bicycle Club Women's TT Series - 2005 - Awards

Category Performance Awards

This year, 23 women from 6 categories qualified for the WTT awards by riding at least 5 WTT 15km events. Here is the list of the category performance prize winners:
• CAF: Cadet Females - Females who turn 15-16 years old in the year of the race (1 qualifier)
  1. Stephanie Clarke (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 30.773 km/h).
  
  
• SEF: Senior Females - Females who turn 19-29 years old in the year of the race (2 qualifiers)
  1. Alyssa Mellon (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 36.462 km/h).
  2. Carolyn Junkins (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 29.547 km/h).
  
  
• VAF: Veteran A Females - Females who turn 30-39 years old in the year of the race (4 qualifiers)
  1. Geneviève Marquis (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 36.393 km/h).
  2. Kathy Bradley (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 35.047 km/h).
  3. Alison Ingham (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 34.294 km/h).
  4. Christine Schulz (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 32.915 km/h).
  
  
• VBF: Veteran B Females - Females who turn 40-49 years old in the year of the race (11 qualifiers)
  1. Ellen Pazdzior (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 37.288 km/h).
  2. Nicole Laviolette (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 36.755 km/h).
  3. Pippa Lawson (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 36.077 km/h).
  4. Zoe Panchen (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 35.928 km/h).
  
  
• VCF: Veteran C Females - Females who turn 50-59 years old in the year of the race (2 qualifiers)
  1. Nancy Manning (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 35.285 km/h).
  2. Christa Ramonat (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 32.644 km/h).
  
  
• VDF: Veteran D Females - Females who turn 60-69 years old in the year of the race (3 qualifiers)
  1. Mary Ajersch (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 34.496 km/h).
  2. Barbara Wilson (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 31.135 km/h).
  3. Jean Cooper (Average Speed of Best Five Finishes: 29.990 km/h).

Honourable Mention Young People's Category Prizes

This year we had two Peewee girls compete in 2 of our 15km events - Stephanie Gould is in her 11th year whereas Ingrid Krausbar is in her 10th year. These girls rode incredibly well, and surely will come out in future years to do the five 15km WTT events to qualify for the category performance awards. Meanwhile, we'd like to recognize their achievement here.

PWF: Peewee Females - Females who turn 10-12 years old in the year of the race

1. Stephanie Gould (Average Speed of her Two 15km Finishes: 29.484 km/h).
2. Ingrid Krausbar (Average Speed of her Two 15km Finishes: 25.454 km/h).

Most Consistent Award

Winner: Lindsey Bellinger
Runner-up: Karen Jardine

Mathematically speaking, the winner of this award was calculated as the woman who has ridden at least five WTT events in 2005 and has the minimum value for the standard deviation of the performance ratio (cube-speed ratio) of her speeds relative to her best speed in the 2005 WTT series. The ordered ranking of this years participants relative to this score can be seen by looking at this table or this graph. It might be slightly more comfortable for you to look at the AvgSpd graph sorted by the standard deviation of the average speed, but the results are slightly different, and not as physically justifiable. Since power output increases approximately as the cube of the speed, there is a greater change in power per unit speed at higher speeds, and this is why it is better for us to use a cube speed ratio than just a speed ratio or a speed difference. Note that our definition of "consistent" is ignoring any effect of different weather conditions - In particular we are defining consistent to mean similar results under all conditions throughout the season.

Most Improved Award

Winner: Debbie Hackett
Runner-up: Alyssa Mellon

This award is a little more complicated to determine, since we want to consider the event difficulty and also we want to see the person improve throughout the season. Debbie Hackett was the hands-down winner, since:

1. She had the highest performance ratio average for her cube speeds relative to her previous best cube speed in the 2005 WTT series for all events (10km and 15km).
2. She had the highest performance ratio average for her cube speeds relative to her previous best cube speed in the 2005 WTT series for all events (10km and 15km) after adjusting them to reflect the EventFactor.
3. She continued to improve throughout the season (that is, apart from her 2005-Jun-21 crash) rather than levelling off or declining in performance as the series proceeded. (Don't worry, we also manually calculated her performance improvements while leaving out the crash and her next event's virtually guaranteed "improvement".)

Alyssa Mellon came in as the runner-up for the most improved. Even though in the first measure, Zoe Panchen came ever so slightly ahead, while in the second measure, Nancy Manning and Sandra Bender scored marginally higher, Allysa Mellon was the one who best met criterion three - ie., the one who continued to improve throughout the season rather than levelling off or declining. We think that this graph of the 15km performances of these four contenders for the runner-up spot justifies our decision. (Note that the results may have been different if Nancy didn't choose to stop for a chat in the last WTT event, but for that we can only say "Thanks ever so much, Nancy, for giving us a good chuckle!").

Highest Participation Award

Winner: Celia McInnis

Celia participated in all 17 of the pre-Invitational 2005 WTT events.

Most Frequent Volunteer Award

Winner: Don Wilson

Don volunteered for all but one of the 17 pre-Invitational WTT events in 2005. In addition to regular duties of timing, holding, and calculating, Don was also kind enough to have a full jug of cool water in his car during this hot summer of time trials. Thank you very much, Don.

Our Prize Donors

Thanks very much to all who contributed prizes to the 2005 WTT series. Here is the alphabetical list of donors:


• Beckwith Cycle
• Cora's Breakfast and Lunch Restaurant
• Cycle Logik
• Cyclefit
• Dinardo's Skis and Wheels
• Full Cycle (St. Laurent)
• Greg Christie's Ski and Cycle Works
• Karen Jardine
• Kundstadt Sports
• Jackie Madill
• McCrank's Cycle
• Orleans Cycle
• Precision Cut & Colour (Stittsville)
• Peccos
• Rosella Mac Neil
• The Cyclery