Originally Posted by
DannoXYZ
As for beginner women's races, I don't see them as being any different than beginning men's races. My girlfriend for 4-years in college was one of the top women racers in the Western conference. Women's races aren't slow if you're in them. But due to the smaller field sizes, the strategies and tactics are very different than the men's races. Small fields tend to stay together and attacks are promptly chased down. It's not possible to sprint from the back of the pack and pass the front with a 10mph+ advantage. And you can't quite do it incognito when the other 10 riders in the pack can see everything you're doing. Much easier to pull stuff like that with 100+ rider packs.
They're slow when you can listen to a whole conversation of chit-chat when they roll by
