Hi all: Again trouble in contacting topica... so, I added some extra calculations/ideas to my note...
The results of tonights TT are up and accessible from http://www3.sympatico.ca/celia.mcinnis/tt/2002/index.html . First place overall went to Aaron Fillion with 19:57, second to Rick Sudac (who's more than 50 years of age!) in a personal season's best of 20:20, and third overall went to our popular female visitor from New Zealand, Meshy Holt with a time of 20:38. In case you're curious - If the age handicaps are calculated as they were in the last couple of years (nothing seems to be posted on the obcweb yet about this race), Rick would get a 69 second advantage - ie., his time tonight would equate with an age handicapped performance of 19:11. Concerning Meshy's time, if we note that Chris Boardman's male hour record speed of 56.375 km/h is 17% faster than the similarly elite Jeannie Longo's female hour record speed of 48.159 km/h, and IF we think that this 17% difference is a reasonable speed gender handicap for women versus men, then increasing Meshy's average speed by 17% would bring it up from 43.62 km/h to 51.04 km/h, which would correspond to a time of about 17:38 for 15km! (Her earlier 20:06 result would translate to a 17:10). (Obviously this is a very simple approximation - let the physicists/statisticians speak! I'd love to generate age/gender handicapping pages for all of the TT's - but only if we have some relatively sound method of doing so). And on with the placings - Third place in the men went to Richard Hinz with 21:02, a PSB by 4 seconds. Second place in the women was Allison McKay with 23:19 (with a gender handicap as described above this would be 19:56), and third to Jennifer Stephenson with 24:07 (which would translate to 20:37 under the above gender handicapping method). Celia (long time club member, EtC.). ------------------------------------------------- For list help, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Club Office: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 230-1064 Website: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cyberus.ca/~obcweb Newsletter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------- ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiDo.a2i8p1 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
