[NCNCA] Women's Races

[soni andreini poulsen]

I agree that if women are going to complain about lack of fields, they need to show up when they get what they were asking for. 
 
However, women are not big on pre-registering.  They rarely need to because fields don't fill.  And life, for me, makes it hard to plan more than 2 days in advance.  So I often choose not to pre-register unless I know for sure I will be able to attend.  
 
So maybe we all need to be spanked for complaining about small fields and then not showing up, but you really should wait until after the races are over to get nasty about it.
 
Soni> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:01:37 -0700> From: zronn at sbcglobal.net> To: ncnca at ncnca.org> Subject: Re: [NCNCA] Women's Races> > It's not just Cat's Hill.> At the EBC Criterium we are doing a 40% cash payback 10 deep for the Pro 1/2/3 Women and have no entries, none, zero, zip. What's up with that/> > We really wanted to support Women this year and offered 3 fields. We have a total of 10 Women registered.> > If you are going to be the loudest to complain, it's a good idea to show some love when your voice is acknowledged.> Right now, we are not seeing it and the Women's fields are hinting that they may be just a big waste of our schedule time.> We could have easily just run more masters 4s and 3s and made some bank, or gone home early.> > Ron> > > > ----- Original Message ----> From: "Gordon, Barry" <Bgordon at Structint.com>> To: NCNCA <ncnca at ncnca.org>> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:59:27 AM> Subject: [NCNCA] Cat's Hill Women's Races> > NCNCA,> > Last year the LGBRC made the bad decision to replace the Women's 3/4> race with Master 45 race and the cycling community let us know in no> uncertain terms that we made a BIG mistake. Therefore, we reinstated> the women's 3/4 race plus increased the cash prize list for the women's> 1/2/3 race from $600/6 places to $1000/10 places in 2008. So what is> the response to our return to sanity? We currently have 11 women> pre-registered for each race. (As it stands now only one 1/2/3 woman> will place out of the money.)> > Lots of people last year complained about our dumb decision and we> listened to you. In return, we hope that the cycling community would> have a change of heart and would support our women's races this> Saturday.> > On-line registration: www.catshill.org> > Thank you for your consideration. > > Barry Gordon, President> Los Gatos Bicycle Racing Club> Team Easton/SugarCRM/Specialized> A USA Cycling Club of the Year> www.lgbrc.org> 408-978-8200> bgordon at structint.com> > > > _______________________________________________> NCNCA discussion list> NCNCA at ncnca.org> http://lists.ncnca.org/mailman/listinfo/ncnca> > > > _______________________________________________> NCNCA discussion list> NCNCA at ncnca.org> http://lists.ncnca.org/mailman/listinfo/ncnca
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