Women's VDS Results Week 5
by Jens on Mar 27, 2011 3:30 PM EDT
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Alfredo Binda threw the race into overdrive with two DSs jumping off the front. Majope had a huge haul of points but janvandervelde just held her off by five points to take the lead. Congratulations! No doubt he will receive warm and heartfelt well-wishes from the whole Horizon-gang who wish him nothing but good fortune in the competition. See the Top 10 below and here are the WVDS110327
Next week the race continues in the US with the Redlands Classic stagerace. For full coverage of that go to Podiuminsight where Lyne will give you full reports and day to day live coverage. And Sunday is the highlight for many of the peloton's female flahutes as they race the Ronde van Vlaanderen which is the second round of the World Cup
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WVDS TEAM |
DS |
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1 |
Fieldys wishlist/superstars |
janvandervelde |
1930 |
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2 |
Chamois Full of Bliss |
majope |
1925 |
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3 |
NTWWEDT |
Sui Juris |
1653 |
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Satan Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas |
Vlaanderen90 |
1650 |
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Go go sinead! |
dansel |
1640 |
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Team Smash |
Shauna Staveley |
1608 |
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Rock Wallabinas |
Platypus6inUSA |
1568 |
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Corinthians |
cotman |
1535 |
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Top Trumpery |
Pigeons |
1493 |
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Lotec Products |
Jens |
1490 |
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My team are just giving others a chance.....
So how smug do we think Majope looks, right now?
And Fieldy…. demonstrating that picking by hottitude does much better than picking by thinking about riders and races!
Ah well, I’ve liked my time in the top 10, but completely failing to put in some riders for the American races is about to bite me, big time….
Smug?
Why, I and the team are merely humbly grateful for the chance to demonstrate to all the kids out there that hard work, dedication, and—oh, fuck it
STOMPITY STOMP STOMP STOMP!!!!!!!
(Fieldy, you’re next!)
I yearn for the cobbles--Edvald Boasson Hagen
32nd!
Up from 73rd. I’m in the top quarter. May this not end anytime soon!
Fun when you get 870 points from one race.
This post had to include top 10, not 3 or 5, but most certainly top 10.
Still stuggeling, not getting enough placements. Very happy with Pooley’s win today.
You know what we need?
Some more Barbie illustrations!
by Sarah Connolly on Mar 27, 2011 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions
High value early season riders
My own homemade ROI column shows that outside of Cath Cheatly (dude!), Shelley Olds is the most economical rider who’s scored more than 200 points. If she keeps going like this, she may end up being the value of the year.
kudos to jens
for putting up these results every week. Really makes the game. Now if you’d just include some races with vos …
Dude, clearly the only way to make this interesting over the long term...
…is to give the non-vos teams a head start.
My non-Vos/Johansson/Pooley strategy
hasn’t turned out (yet) quite as disastrously as I thought it might. But when Vos gets going, well… :-|
"There is nobody doing it for the money. Everybody is doing it because they want to ride bikes." Lizzie Armitstead
Oh, that's bold.
I’m Pooley, non-Vos, non Johansson. I think you need one of them, minimum.
More a rush of blood to the head, I think. ;-)
Still, with no expectations whatsoever of winning I was interested to see what would happen (certain doom, no doubt). To do it properly you’d probably need to have a much better knowledge of American riders than I do, oh yes, & remember to put some French (or French-ish) riders on your team.
"I’m hoping for the Mortirolo-Gavia combination, then we can ride down to Bormio for ice cream." Emma Pooley on the Giro Donne
Adding
I’ve been scoring (outside the competition) a much more conventional ‘shadow’ team of
Andruk, Baccaille, Marta Bastianelli, Colclough, Fahlin, Ferrier-Bruneau, Gilmore, Martin, Pooley, Van Den Broek, Van Vleuten, Villumsen, Visser, Whitten, Worrack. That has 1270 pts so far, which would place it 25th, rather than 60-somethingth. I fully expect the ‘competition’ team to plummet once Vos gets going. But I’m hoping some of those middle ranked riders in my proper team might at least step up a bit.
"I’m hoping for the Mortirolo-Gavia combination, then we can ride down to Bormio for ice cream." Emma Pooley on the Giro Donne
The curse of the double-barrelled French woman strikes again
damn those not so tiny, but far too similar, names. And welcome to the victims club.
I didn't pick her as I thought she'd be tired from/focusing on Cross
Which is insane, I knew she’d ridden really well for Vision1, I was distracted by her riding for French team last year!
by Sarah Connolly on Mar 29, 2011 6:17 AM EDT up reply actions
I think the Vos pricing
did its job here. I could turn out to be wrong, but I think there was far better value available with non-Vos combos.
It remains to be seen
It’s early days yet. I think Vos might turn out to be a good investment in the end. Of course it leaves you much more vulnerable to injury.
Yay!
I’m not last… Knew sneeking a look at pigeons notebooks was a crafty strategy…
by bingo_little on Mar 27, 2011 5:17 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Wow, I am Lanterne Rouge, and by a pretty healthy margin!
I guess my strategy of picking Mara Abbott (who I went to undergrad with) and then nearly every scandinavian (except inexplicably Emma Johansson) plus Marianne Vos is not working out. Clearly Vos needs a quick and valiant return to the road after her track time is up.
by CollegiateCyclingRocks on Mar 27, 2011 5:21 PM EDT reply actions
Take a peek at the points available in the stageraces
that should cheer you up re. Abbott. As for Emma, I can’t help you except to say that since you picked Vos Emma was never an option.
my lanterne rouge strategy hit a snag
555 points in one day. No longer plumb last.
Fear not, fellow cellar dwellers: I shall return.
My strategy of picking riders named Emma is working very well so far
I picked Riccardo Ricco for my 2011 VDS team, and submitted said team well before the submission deadline. I fully understand the error of my ways, and plead with the VDS Gods to allow me to resubmit my team.
Alas, I knew it couldn't last
Its all downhill from here. I hope some Australian riders will travel to the American races. I need the Honda Dream Team to show up somewhere.
I've plummeted!
Ah, the shame of it all. Reminds me of my first year VDS, first place for a week, then obscurity.
I asked myself, why is that frisbee getting bigger, and then it hit me.
Only regret (so far) is not taking Pauline Ferrand Prevot :( pretty much my favorite women's rider
just b/c I thought she wouldn’t be riding much road/not scoring much. Whoops.
I think that still applies
She’s doing Binda, Fleche and some more races, but not many, if I recall correctly
She said her focus is on the u23 Euros, MTB Worlds & road Worlds...
I think she’ll race infrequently, but be one of those many-points-for-tiny-outlay riders…
by Sarah Connolly on Mar 29, 2011 6:18 AM EDT up reply actions
That's it.
At that level, it doesn’t really matter how many races she does if she scores well in the ones she does enter.
"I’m hoping for the Mortirolo-Gavia combination, then we can ride down to Bormio for ice cream." Emma Pooley on the Giro Donne
She was the same with Cross - didn't ride many races, but scored a top ten in the Worlds
She’s been such an amazing talent at junior level, and all the indications are that she’ll be great at seniors, if she stays healthy/has the right support. It’s funny, Marianne Vos was kinda the next Hanka Kupfernagel, in terms of multi-discipline/talent/love for Cyclocross, and it feels wrong to say someone’s the next Vos, given that Vos is only 23 (23!!!), but if anyone looks likely to warrant that label, PFP has the potential…
by Sarah Connolly on Mar 29, 2011 9:20 AM EDT up reply actions
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