OBC Open TT Series - 2006-Aug-31 - 15km (Rockliffe Pkwy) (EvtFactor= 0.9646)

Weather (18:00): Mainly Sunny. Temperature: 22°C, Humidity: 49%, Dew point: 10&de;C, Wind: E 8km/h, Pressure: 102.6kPa, Visibility: 24km.
Weather (19:00): Sunny. Temperature: 21°C, Humidity: 52%, Dew point: 11&de;C, Wind: 0km/h, Pressure: 102.6kPa, Visibility: 24km.
Weather (20:00): Mainly Clear. Temperature: 19°C, Humidity: 60%, Dew point: 11&de;C, Wind: WNW 5km/h, Pressure: 102.6kPa, Visibility: 24km.

The conditions seemed almost ideal tonight - very little wind and a reasonable temperature for late August. The air pressure, however, was the highest of the season. Perhaps this is why the number of season-series improvements this week was down considerably from last weeks 32 out of 78. This evening, 21 of the 66 who had ridden earlier this season managed to better their previous 2006 OTT best - and most of the considerably improved had good excuses for being so - such as not having frequented the TT's this year, or having equipment on loan, or just being young and energetic and on the upswing! Larry Sargent, not out since Good Friday, started just behind Celia, and he not only pulled out a more than 32% improvement in cube speed, but also has to be commended on the accuracy of his pre-race guess - He indicated that he'd catch Celia at 2km, and did so with an error of only a meter or so! Larry Burge, out for the first time since May 11 and the second most improved at nearly 23%, provided him with a better target. Congratulations to David Martin for his significant improvement giving him a database PB. So far as the youngsters - congratulations to Matteo Dal-Cin for breaking into the 23's for the first time.

By the way, if you're curious to see how the top 3 male and female riders have done on each of the days when the air pressure was at least 102kPa , you may click here. Note that the PerformanceRatio column shows how well they did on the particular high pressure day relative to their season/series best. Feel free to play around with the form to extract other information which you're curious about.

Thanks to our Helpers: Jim Glover, Gunter Hauschildt, Celia McInnis, Alex McKnight, Ted Damen, Joanne Schuck.