Fastest Team at the 2007 WTT Invitational

Tricia Spooner & Robert Parniak did 20:40 this year - an improvement of 16 seconds from their 2006 WTT Invitational ride of 20:56.

Category Performance Awards

This year, 16 women from five categories qualified for the WTT awards by riding at least five WTT 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)

  Lindsay Anderson (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 37.118 km/h). Note that Lindsay currently holds the five fastest CAF speeds in our database!

  
  
  
• VAF: Veteran A Females - Females who turn 30-39 years old in the year of the race (2 qualifiers, 1 honourable mention!)
  1. Kathy Bradley (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 37.917 km/h).
  2. Karen Byskov (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 29.687 km/h).
  
  Honourable Mention: Alison Ingham, who would have qualified were it not for a flat tire in one of the Frank Kenny Road time trials, had an average of 34.731 km/h of the four events which she completed.
  
  
• VBF: Veteran B Females - Females who turn 40-49 years old in the year of the race (4 qualifiers)
  1. Nicole LaViolette (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 37.106 km/h).
  2. Lindsey Bellinger (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 36.774 km/h).
  3. Dianne Marleau (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 34.273 km/h).
  4. Lisa Hébert (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 33.711 km/h).
  
  
• VCF: Veteran C Females - Females who turn 50-59 years old in the year of the race (6 qualifiers, 1 honourable mention)

  Ellen away at Ironman Canada

  1. Ellen Pazdzior (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 39.511 km/h).
  2. Erika Revesz (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 38.293 km/h).
  3. Nancy Manning (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 35.322 km/h).
  4. Celia McInnis (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 34.500 km/h).
  5. Christa Ramonat (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 32.659 km/h).
  6. Jane Hammingh (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 32.549 km/h).
  
  Honourable Mention: Jacqueline Madill rode four time trials and took time out to help at five others when volunteers were of short supply. Jackie improved quite a bit in her 4 rides, from less than 27 km/h to more than 29 km/h.
  
  The VCF class was our biggest and quickest category this year, with Ellen and Erika occupying the fastest two spots overall for the best five 2007 WTT speeds. Ellen came out first in that competition, but Erika rode the WTT season's fastest speed at 40.168km/h for our final 10.89km time trial on the Frank Kenny course.
  
  
• VDF: Veteran D Females - Females who turn 60-69 years old in the year of the race (3 qualifiers)
  1. Mary Ajersch (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 34.582 km/h).
  2. Jean Cooper (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 29.862 km/h).
  3. Barbara Wilson (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 29.499 km/h).

Honourable Mention Young People's Category Prizes

This year we had one Peewee girl compete in one of our 10.89 km events - Klara Bauermeister, aged 10, who managed an impressive 27.628 km/h.

Most Consistent Award

Winner: Christa Ramonat Mathematically speaking, the winner of this award was the woman who rode at least five WTT events in 2007 and had the minimum value for the standard deviation of the performance ratio (cube-speed ratio) of her speeds relative to her best speed in the 2007 WTT series. The ordered ranking of this years participants relative to this score can be seen by looking at this table or this graph. Note that our above simple definition of "consistent" is looking for consistency REGARDLESS of the weather conditions or time of year. Clearly we want to ensure that the rider getting this award didn't rank highly because of riding only on days with more similar conditions than other riders. Looking at the EvtFactor column in the table shows that Christa rode in as variable a set of conditions as the other contenders.

Most Improved Award

Winner: Lisa Hébert In addition to the usual variations in weather conditions, a fewer number of riders this year on a myriad of different courses of varying lengths made it more difficult to decide who were the most improved participants this year. Via comparison of cube speed ratios to previous 2007 WTT best average speeds, with and without EventFactor corrections, for those who had ridden 5 or more 2007 WTT events, Lisa Hébert came out first. In particular: She had the highest (by more than 2%) performance ratio average for her cube speeds relative to her previous best cube speed in the 2007 WTT series of any rider who had done at least five WTT events. She had the highest (by more than 5%) performance ratio average for her cube speeds relative to her previous best cube speed in the 2007 WTT series after adjusting them to reflect the EventFactor of any rider who had done at least five WTT events. Note that in this calculation, we filtered out the 14.91 km event of 2007-Aug-21 since, being the only time trial of that distance, we had no data to determine the EventFactor from.

Runner-up: Jane Hammingh For second place, we chose Jane Hammingh, for scoring highest in both of these regards, of the participants who had done at least ten WTT events in 2007. Even more noteworthy than improvements within the current season, however, were Jane's improvements since she began time trialling 2 years ago. Jane did her seven fastest solo time trials this year, with a marked upwards trend in her average speeds since 2005.

Highest Participation Award

	Winner:Celia McInnis Celia participated in all 16 of the pre-Invitational 2007 WTT events which were not cancelled.
	Runner-up: Kathy Bradley Kathy missed only one WTT event in August. Both Celia and Kathy showed up to race on the cold and rainy 2007-Jun-05 and were relieved that the volunteers were as keen to cancel as they were!

Volunteers

Most Frequent Non-Participant Volunteer: Jim Glover Jim helped at fourteen of the WTT events this year! Thank you very much, Jim, for sharing your time, knowledge and camaderie with us.

Without volunteers, both WTT participants and people who do not ride in the series, we could not run the WTT events. Thanks to all volunteers!

Here is the list of volunteers who are not WTT participants:
Jim Glover (14 events), Don Wilson (10), Jocelyne Beauchamp (9), André Marier (5), John Cooper (5), Margaret Hamilton (5), Jackie MacDonald (5), Jim Carpenter (3), Scotty Dick (2), Allen Cameron (1), Michael Coiré, Neil Farish (1), Gunter Hauschildt (1), Christine Jenkins (1), René Saint-Arnaud-Watt (1), Ann Watters (1), Ross Wilkinson (1), Geoffrey Wright (1).

Here are the list of WTT participants who volunteered:
Celia McInnis (18 events), Lisa Hébert (7), Barbara Wilson (6), Nicole LaViolette (5), Jackie Madill (5), Kathy Bradley (4), Jean Cooper (4), Mary Ajersch (2), Lucie Boudreau (2), Jane Hammingh (2), Kristin Marvin (1).

Thanks to all who helped to make this such an enjoyable activity, whether was through doing the underlying technical operations, bringing along adorable children/puppies, encouraging us, competing, or amusing us with pie-contests having rather malleable rules. Happy riding until next May!

Here are some other pictures from our Awards Banquet:

Our Prize Donors

Thanks very much to all who contributed prizes to the 2007 WTT series. Here is the alphabetical list of donors:


• Cora's Breakfast and Lunch Restaurant
• Full Cycle (St. Laurent)
• Alison Ingham
• Nicole LaViolette
• Jackie MacDonald
• Celia McInnis
• McCrank's Cycle
• Ellen Pazdzior
• Peccos
• The Cyclery