OBC Open TT Series - 2009-Jun-25 - 15km (Rockliffe Pkwy) (EvtFactor= 0.9598)

Weather (18:00): Mostly Cloudy. Temperature: 30°C, Humidity: 39%, Dew point: 15°C, Wind: WSW 11km/h, Pressure: 100.2kPa, Vis: 24km, Humidex: 34.
Weather (19:00): Cloudy. Temperature: 29°C, Humidity: 41%, Dew point: 14°C, Wind: WNW 9km/h, Pressure: 100.2kPa, Vis: 24km, Humidex: 33.
Weather (20:00): Partly Cloudy. Temperature: 29°C, Humidity: 43%, Dew point: 15°C, Wind: S 8km/h, Pressure: 100.2kPa, Vis: 24km, Humidex: 33.

Though nine of these results were first posted on the OBC web site circa 10:30 on 2009-Jun-26, due to problems with the OBC tt input software, the rest of the results did not appear until about 14:30 on 2009-Jun-28. I continue to offer my volunteer labour and software towards the accuracy/promptness of our displayed results. It may be time for cranky politics to take a back seat to skill, dedication and fun!

Wow, there were some fantastic performances tonight! First place Douglas van den Ham took more than half a minute off of his previous best to post his first sub-20 minute time, while Sue Schlatter took another two seconds off of her PB and moved to only 13 seconds off of the all-time women's course record. There were excellent age-category performances as well. Certainly Sue Schlatter continues to better the Vet B women. Matteo Dal-Cin set an all-time best for the Junior male category with his first sub-20 time, 25 seconds faster than Andrew Lattimore's previous mark set in 2008. At the other edge of the age categories, Rick Sudac, who continues to add to the top of the Veteran D male list, did 20:05, and is almost certain to bring that record to below 20 minutes. In terms of personal bests, of the 60 who had ridden earlier in the 2009 OTT series, 39 improved and 2 tied their previous 2009 OTT best, whereas 21 of 68 riders improved upon their previous database best. It is interesting to look at tonight's results in terms of the age-handicapping method currently used in the OBC, or more interestingly for the women and older people, at the age-gender handicaps generated from the British VTTA method.

The humour of the evening was provided by Kevin Graves, AKA "Gravy". About a kilometer into his ride, his seat post slipped down about 10". Since he was on a fixed gear bike, standing was not a viable option, so he continued riding, in his words, "like a clown", seated with his knees flailing out to the sides to avoid hitting the handlebars - He enjoyed himself and was pleased with his time considering the circumstances.

										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	van den Ham, Douglas	OBC/EMD	19:30	46.154	1/71	U40M	1/10	1.0870
		2	Dal-Cin, Matteo	EUR	19:32	46.075	2/71	U19M	1/4	1.1640
		3	Rendall, Glen	RWR	19:33	46.036	3/71	U50M	1/12	0.9650
Y		4	Datars, Paul	OBC/RWR	19:39	45.802	4/71	U60M	1/14	1.0030
Y		5	Sudac, Rick	OBC/RWR	20:05	44.813	5/71	U70M	1/7	1.0710
		6	Schlatter, Sue	EMD	20:19	44.299	6/71	U50F	1/10	1.0050
		7	Munden, David	EMD	20:33	43.796	7/71	U40M	2/10	1.0720
			Parniak, Robert	---	20:33	43.796	7/71	U40M	2/10	1.0120
		9	Campbell, Colin	OBC	21:05	42.688	9/71	U50M	2/12	0.9810
			Morvan, Jacques	OBC	21:05	42.688	9/71	U70M	2/7	1.0530
		11	Newell, Nicholas	---	21:11	42.486	11/71	U30M	1/7	1.0050
		12	Wright, Sean	CYC	21:12	42.453	12/71	U50M	3/12	1.0550
		13	Tregunno, Peter	OBC	21:13	42.419	13/71	U40M	4/10	1.0210
		14	Graves, Kevin (seat post went down about 10"!)	WQW	21:14	42.386	14/71	U30M	2/7	0.8980
		15	Budgell, Glen	OBC	21:18	42.254	15/71	U60M	2/14	1.0750
		16	Cameron, Allen	OBC/RWR	21:20	42.188	16/71	U60M	3/14	1.0090
		17	Lapointe, Marc	EMD	21:34	41.731	17/71	U40M	5/10
		18	Zuliani, Greg	EMD	21:35	41.699	18/71	U30M	3/7	0.8890
		19	Henschel, Peter	OBC	21:36	41.667	19/71	U50M	4/12
		20	McKay, Allison	OBC/RDO	21:38	41.602	20/71	U50F	2/10	1.0140
		21	Moerman, Bram	OBC	21:47	41.316	21/71	U70M	3/7	0.9930
		22	Mullington, Chris	WQW	21:52	41.159	22/71	U60M	4/14	0.9680
		23	Morewood, Colin	OBC	21:57	41.002	23/71	U19M	2/4	1.0140
		24	Miner, Chris	OBC	22:04	40.785	24/71	U50M	5/12	1.0840
		25	Sargent, Larry	OBC	22:05	40.755	25/71	U60M	5/14	0.9670
		26	McCutcheon, Drew	OBC	22:07	40.693	26/71	U40M	6/10	1.0930
			Posthuma, Hans	OBC	22:07	40.693	26/71	U60M	6/14	1.0440
		28	Armstrong, Brian	OBC	22:09	40.632	28/71	U50M	6/12	0.9400
		29	Bernard, Christopher	APK	22:16	40.419	29/71	U19M	3/4
		30	Orange, Kiernan	RWR	22:28	40.059	30/71	U19M	4/4	0.9630
		31	Weiser, Paul	OBC	22:40	39.706	31/71	U70M	4/7	1.0000
		32	DeVidi, Robert	OBC	22:42	39.648	32/71	U50M	7/12
		33	Boulanger, Gaëtan	OBC	22:44	39.589	33/71	U70M	5/7	1.0000
		34	Hess, Detlef	OBC	22:51	39.387	34/71	U60M	7/14	1.0110
		35	Langevin, Roger	OBC	22:53	39.330	35/71	U40M	7/10	1.0900
		36	Robitaille, Brian	OBC	22:56	39.244	36/71	U50M	8/12	1.0920
		37	Dorego, Jean-Louis	OBC	23:02	39.074	37/71	U60M	8/14	1.0510
		38	Reissner, Leslie	OBC	23:03	39.046	38/71	U60M	9/14	1.0310
		39	Medaglia, Tyler	OBC	23:05	38.989	39/71	U30M	4/7	1.0640
		40	Schuck, Peter	OBC	23:12	38.793	40/71	U60M	10/14	0.8860
		41	Cheney, Paul	OBC	23:19	38.599	41/71	U70M	6/7	1.0090
		42	Blagdon, Wendy	CYC	23:24	38.462	42/71	U50F	3/10	0.9540
		43	Coldwell, Michael	ABC	23:29	38.325	43/71	U50M	9/12
		44	Deavy, Carol	OBC	23:36	38.136	44/71	U50F	4/10	0.9940
		45	Henry, Mike	---	23:50	37.762	45/71	U40M	8/10	1.0130
		46	Yaeger, Dave	OBC	23:51	37.736	46/71	U60M	11/14
		47	Burge, Larry	OBC	23:57	37.578	47/71	U50M	10/12	0.9390
			Phillips, Ron	OBC	23:57	37.578	47/71	U70M	7/7	1.1100
		49	Marleau, Dianne	OBC/RWR	23:58	37.552	49/71	U50F	5/10	0.9350
		50	Leslie, Brian	OBC	24:09	37.267	50/71	U40M	9/10
		51	Samborsky, Mark	OBC	24:17	37.062	51/71	U50M	11/12	0.9650
		52	Ingham, Alison	OBC/RWR	24:21	36.961	52/71	U50F	6/10	0.9560
		53	Hauschildt, Gunter	OBC	24:22	36.936	53/71	U50M	12/12
		54	McKay, Andrea	OBC	24:24	36.885	54/71	U50F	7/10	1.0290
		55	Campbell, Greg	OBC	24:32	36.685	55/71	U40M	10/10	0.8120
			McKinnon, Carrie	OBC	24:32	36.685	55/71	U50F	8/10	1.0140
		57	Simard, Martin	OBC	24:35	36.610	57/71	U60M	12/14	1.0200
		58	Couturier-Lamy, Felix	OBC	24:43	36.413	58/71	U15M	1/1	1.6290
		59	Levi, Cheryl	OBC	24:46	36.339	59/71	U50F	9/10	1.1390
		60	McInnis, Celia	OBC/ABC	24:52	36.193	60/71	U60F	1/1	0.9600
		61	Medaglia, Jeremy	OBC	24:56	36.096	61/71	U30M	5/7	1.0100
Y		62	Gray, Leona	OBC	24:58	36.048	62/71	U70F	1/1	1.1600
		63	van Zandvoort, Mike	---	25:00	36.000	63/71	U30M	6/7	1.0490
		64	McLaughlin, Brian	OBC	25:14	35.667	64/71	U60M	13/14
		65	McLaren, Louise	OBC	25:52	34.794	65/71	U50F	10/10	1.0610
		66	Flynn, Emily	RWR	26:16	34.264	66/71	U17F	1/1	1.0190
		67	Essex, Ken	OBC	26:58	33.375	67/71	U30M	7/7
		68	Ramcharan, John	OBC	28:02	32.105	68/71	U60M	14/14	1.1280
		69	Johnson, Laura	OBC/CYF	28:52	31.178	69/71	U40F	1/1	1.1780
		70	Lansing, Melissa	CYF	29:46	30.235	70/71	U30F	1/1	0.9980
		71	Burdett, Avery  (Hit pedal at the turn around)	OBC	DNF		71/71	U80M	1/1
			Average Speed of all of the above 70 finishes (1050km in 26:54:33):						39.02
>>>			Average of the Average Speeds for these 70 finishes						39.327	<<<

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