[NCNCA] Women's Races

[E Bradshaw]

I agree with Soni.  I know plenty of men who only pre-register because their
fields will sell out, and who regularly have life interfere and then lose
their non-refundable entry fee.  If they didn't have to pre-reg they
wouldn't, and I can't imagine that you'd have only ten women (either for the
entire EBC crit or for the Cat's Hill W1/2/3).

Has anybody noticed there are local women's teams taking on some "big" teams
at Gila?  How cool is that?  Unfortunately it's going to conflict with Cat's
Hill for a few people, but man, what does that say about the women's racing
in our area?

Elis

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:06 AM, soni andreini poulsen <
conejotoo at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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> > > >
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