I enjoyed it, Sara, I thought the race was pretty animated and held the attention.
I don't think you are all screwed up. I think there were a number of factors at work. First, Vos was certainly the strongest in the race and Armitstead was probably one of top three or four - as was Pooley, one of the other Brits, who recently finished second to Vos in the women's Giro. So once Vos and Armitstead were off the front and working together, with neither the Brits nor the Dutch, probably the strongest teams, interested in helping bring them back, they had a good chance of staying away.
Second, and this is in a way an extension of the first point, in the women's race there is a fairly wide spread of ability, so the number of people in the peloton who could contribute was reduced still further. The German Arndt ended up doing far too much of the work.
I was pleased for Vos. She has been the top women's road-racer of the last decade and one of the best ever.