Our Prize Donors

Thanks very much to all who contributed prizes to the 2008 WTT series. Here is the alphabetical list of donors:


• Award Cycle & Sports - 613-212-4076, 2280 Carling Av.
• Greg Christie's Ski & Cycle Works
• Bushtukah
• Kari Ferlatte
• Halo Gear - Distributor Jason Komendat 613-276-5968 - soon at www.braingear.ca .
• Celia McInnis
• Fresh Air Experience
• McCrank's Cycle
• Popeye's Supplements
• St. Laurent Complex
• The Cyclery
• Tommy & Lefebvre

Fastest Teams at the 2008 WTT Invitational

	Tricia Spooner & Robert Parniak did 20:32 this year - an improvement of 8 seconds from their previous best at the 2007 WTT Invitational.
	Les "Triplettes de Belleville" team of Michael Coldwell, Celia McInnis and Joël Sidhu managed to break the 40km/h mark with a time of 22:21. Celia liked getting a bit of a push over the overpass!
	Kari Ferlatte & Duncan Beard managed a speedy 22:39. Kari is in her first year of riding time trials. Her background is in mountain biking.

New WTT 15km Record

The WTT 15km record remained 21:36 for many years as set by visiting elite rider Edie Fisher back on 1992-Jun-02. This year, Jennifer Stephenson broke this record on each of her three WTT performances. Here is the all-time list of the 15km individual performances in the WTT series which were done at 40km/h or faster. Congratulations to Jennifer. She has ridden even faster in the OTT series this year.

Category Performance Awards

This year, 26 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:
• JUF: Junior Females - Females who turn 17-18 years old in the year of the race (1 qualifier)

  Lindsay (centre)

  Lindsay Anderson (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 37.883 km/h). Note that Lindsay's 23:14 done on 2008-Jul-29 is the fastest WTT Junior time since Allison Jone's 23:13 back on 1989-Aug-15. Lindsay, who is just in her first year as a Junior, also ranks very highly in terms of the best JUF times in any of series in our database.

  
  
  
• VAF: Veteran A Females - Females who turn 30-39 years old in the year of the race (3 qualifiers)
  1. Kathy Bradley (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 38.479 km/h).
  2. Kari Ferlatte (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 34.961 km/h).
  3. Karen Byskov (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 29.973 km/h).
  
  The average of the average of the best 5 average speeds for the three participants in this category was 34.000 km/h.
  
  
• VBF: Veteran B Females - Females who turn 40-49 years old in the year of the race (11 qualifiers)
  1. Nicole LaViolette (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 37.594 km/h).
  2. Lindsey Bellinger (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 37.355 km/h).
  3. Zoe Panchen (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 36.334 km/h).
  4. Dianne Marleau (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 36.296 km/h).
  5. Pippa Lawson (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 36.242 km/h).
  6. Julia Fournier (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 35.914 km/h).
  7. Alison Ingham (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 34.713 km/h).
  8. Sandra Bender (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 34.156 km/h).
  9. Lisa Hébert (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 33.984 km/h).
  10. Karen Jardine (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 33.228 km/h).
  11. Shiree Nowoselski (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 31.334 km/h).
  
  The VBF class was our biggest category this year, with eleven participants. The average of the average of the best 5 average speeds for the participants in this category was 35.175 km/h.
  
  Note that Julia Fournier was away from the event due to her participation in Ironman Canada in Penticton B.C. She did an incredible PB of 1:11:43, and her writeup is available here. Congratulations Julia!
  
  
• VCF: Veteran C Females - Females who turn 50-59 years old in the year of the race (7 qualifiers)
  1. Erika Revesz (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 39.947 km/h).
  2. Ellen Pazdzior (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 37.901 km/h).
  3. Nancy Manning (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 37.308 km/h).
  4. Celia McInnis (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 36.890 km/h).
  5. Patricia Konantz (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 35.398 km/h).
  6. Christa Ramonat (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 33.546 km/h).
  7. Jane Hammingh (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 32.221 km/h).
  
  
  
  The VCF class was our quickest multi-person category this year, with the average of the average of the best 5 speeds for the participants being 36.056 km/h.
  
  
• 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: 34.373 km/h).
  2. Anna Delaney (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 31.439 km/h).
  3. Barbara Wilson (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 30.124 km/h).
  4. Jean Cooper (Average of the Best Five Average Speeds: 29.858 km/h).
  
  The average of the average of the best 5 average speeds for the three participants in this category was 31.423 km/h.

Honourable Mention Young People's Category Prizes

This year we had one Peewee girl, 12 year old Bailin Xie, who competed twice in our series, once in a 10km event with her mom, Lisa Meyer, in 18:22, and once solo - doing a 15km event in 29:11. This was great riding for a girl of that age, and she really had fun.

Most Consistent Award

Tied for this award: Mary Ajersch and Lisa Hébert Mathematically speaking, the winner of this award was the woman who rode at least five WTT events in 2008 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 2008 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 Mary and Lisa rode under a range of conditions which was similar to most of the other contenders.

Most Improved Award

Winner: Anna Delaney There were many phenomenal improvements this year. With the varying weather conditions and large number of equipment upgrades, there could be considerable debate concerning who should get this award. In the end, appreciating that we just want to encourage increased participation and further improvement, we ignored the complications and merely calculated, for each rider who had done at least 5 WTT events in 2008, her performance ratio average for the cube speeds relative to her previous best cube speed in the 2008 WTT series. Anna Delaney came out on top via this measure. Erika Revesz was certainly a top contender for this award as well, but we hope that she has been awarded well in other ways for this series.

Highest Participation Award

Winner:Celia McInnis Celia participated in all 15 of the pre-Invitational 2008 WTT events which were not cancelled.

Special Award

Rookie Awards

Rookies:Shiree Nowoselski, Kari Ferlatte, Julia Fournier Shiree and Kari come to the WTT series from Mountain Biking, while Julia's background is with the triathlon. Julia had ridden one OTT in 2006, but is new to the WTT series. You may see how they did in their first year of participation in the WTT series by clicking here.

Volunteers

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! We have some awards for the non-participant volunteers who frequently helped: Don Wilson (every event), Jim Glover (almost every event), Jackie Madill, Jackie MacDonald, John Cooper and Andre Marier.

Here are some more pictures from the WTT Invitational evening:

The Time Trial
Is it about the bike?
Brian R's cool MTB Trailer Hitch for Kona	Shiree's golden Giant	A Bicycle Built for Two!	With Two on it...	The 16 year Rejuvenator!
Or the people?
Anna with André, Christa and Don in the background	Colin & Sheri	Jane & Bob	Michael, Celia & Joël	Professionally Dog-tagged
Tricia, Robert, Ted, Lindsey & Mary	Bob with André, Anna, Geoffrey & Jim in background	Jim & Christa	Colin & Sheri	Sheri
Colin	Don, Celia, Michael Kari & Duncan	Colin & Sheri	Jane Hammingh & Ron & Pippa, Lindsey, Tricia, Robert Ted, Ron & Nancy	Nancy, Ron & Patricia
Anna & Jim	Geoffrey, Colin & Sheri	Kari & Duncan	Jim & Joy	Ron, Karen, Jean & Jane Hammingh
Jean, Karen, Ron Michael & Celia	Jim, André, Bob C. & Erika	Michael, Celia & Joël	Lawrence & Pippa with Don, Joy & Erika behind	Mary
Ron & Nancy	Ron & Nancy	Ron & Nancy	Ron & Nancy	Jane, ?, Ron & Nancy
Or our mascots?
Kona (Brian & Shiree)	Spook back (Celia)	Spook front (Celia)	Clodagh (Kathy)

The Awards Banquet