CycleFit Chicks' Time Trial Series - 2012-Jul-30 - 15km (Rockliffe Pkwy) (EvtFactor= 0.8713)

Ottawa Weather (18:00): Mostly Cloudy. Temperature: 31°C, Humidity: 30%, Dew point: 11&de;C, Wind: S 19km/h, Pressure: 101.4kPa, Vis: 10km, Humidex: 33.
Ottawa Weather (19:00): Mainly Sunny. Temperature: 29°C, Humidity: 37%, Dew point: 13&de;C, Wind: SSW 18 gust 33km/h, Pressure: 101.4kPa, Vis: 10km, Humidex: 32.
Ottawa Weather (20:00): Mainly Sunny. Temperature: 27°C, Humidity: 41%, Dew point: 13&de;C, Wind: SSW 16km/h, Pressure: 101.4kPa, Vis: 10km, Humidex: 29.

Sometimes things just don't go smoothly, and tonight was one of those nights, so we might as well laugh and enjoy what transpired. There was a brutal wind from the south, the most difficult wind direction on our course, and the air pressure was higher than optimal. Clearly some excuses were needed for how slowly we were likely to time trial, and some were elicited - 30 concerts/week, sore knee, pinched nerves in neck, feeling lazy, dead groundhogs on the road, and so on. It seemed, though, that excuses were needed as much for slow arrival times, at both the registration area and the start line, as for slow time trial times! Several riders arrived after the numbers had been given out, even after the clock had been started, and quick registrations (always aiming to please and accommodate and entice) of these riders distracted Jim and I (always good intentioned) from letting some of those who had not yet ridden a 15km time trial where the start line was. Anyway after dealing with the late comers, Jim hurried off to the start line in his van to let off the first rider, only to find that none of the early riders were anywhere in sight. Riders who had only ridden 10km events had led (again with only the best of intentions) the new participants 2.5km past the 15km start point to the 10km start point. Oh well, we decided to celebrate at the end with photos showing us pointing in all directions to illustrate the general state of confusion for the evening! Thankfully the groundhog carcasses were nowhere in sight during our race, but one rider, Dahlia Tanasoiu encountered a bigger obstacle. Just before the finish line, a police car, complete with flashing lights, pulled onto the shoulder in front of her to ask Jim what we were doing. Dahlia stopped, as she legally had to, and the only thing that would have been more amusing would be if the cop had pulled such a stunt on our fastest participant, police woman Kathy Bradley!

Next Monday is a holiday, but we would like to have a time trial to make up for this one. Let celia@drmath.ca know if you would like to ride so that we know if it is worthwhile to have one.

										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	Bradley, Kathy  (feeling lazy)	CYF	24:32	36.685	1/17	U50F	1/4	0.9920
		2	Nowoselski, Shiree  (pinched nerve in neck)	OBC	27:41	32.511	2/17	U50F	2/4	0.9470
		3	McInnis, Celia  (30 concerts/week is a pretty good excuse for slow riding!)	ABC/CYF	28:40	31.395	3/17	U60F	1/6	0.8590
s		4	Langevin, Claudia	CYF	29:09	30.875	4/17	U19F	1/1
		5	Gagnon, Janique	CYF	29:43	30.286	5/17	U50F	3/4	1.0460
		6	Fleming, Kate	CYF	30:11	29.818	6/17	U40F	1/3
		7	Tanasoiu, Dahlia	CYF	30:25	29.589	7/17	U40F	2/3
		8	Bigelow, Heather  (OMG - first time trial this year)	CYF	31:20	28.723	8/17	U60F	2/6
		9	LeBlanc, Karen	CYF	31:29	28.587	9/17	U30F	1/3	0.8570
		10	Turmaine, Christine	CYF	31:48	28.302	10/17	U50F	4/4
		11	Tanaka, Monica  (hurt knee from altering cleat angle - the intention was good)	CYF	32:24	27.778	11/17	U30F	2/3
		12	Andre, Diane	CYF	32:36	27.607	12/17	U60F	3/6	1.0220
		13	Crysdale, Heather  (started several minutes late - had gone to the 10km start point rather than the 15km one!)	CYF	38:30	23.377	13/17	U60F	4/6
		14	Do, Thuy  (recovering from a complicated injury - got some rest tonight by going to the wrong start point!)	CYF	DNS		14/17	U30F	3/3
			Patenaude, Lyse  (went to 10km start point rather than 15km one!)	CYF	DNS		16/17	U60F	5/6
			Reichert, Ursula  (went to 10km start point rather than 15km one!)	CYF	DNS		16/17	U60F	5/6
			von Moos, Liz  (went to 10km start point rather than 15km one!)	CYF	DNS		15/17	U40F	3/3
			Average Speed of all of the above 13 finishes (195km in 06:38:28):						29.363
>>>			Average of the Average Speeds for these 13 finishes						29.656	<<<

Thanks to our Helpers: Conrad Hladik, Jim Glover, Roger Langevin, Celia McInnis.