a.miles
Hi!
I'm a cat 3 and new to portland and to OBRA, so this will be my 1st year
racing here. I agree with Heather & Anne. While it's nice to have a
separate 3s race, it should not happen at the expense of a 1/2 race.
Scoring the 3s separately from the 1/2s makes sense though. (Getting
dropped in a road race sucks, but hopefully there will be enough 3s to form
a chase group and since the scoring is separate it won't matter anyway.)
Really it would just make me sad to not have a 1/2 race.. what would we 3s
have to look forward
to? Let's all stick together, race together, even if it means i get
dropped by the fast ladies!
Anona Whitley
Ironclad Performance Wear Cycling
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Anne Linton wrote:
> Hi Heather
> I also am a new Cat 3 racer and like the idea of a cat 3 only field in a
> lot of road races but NOT if that takes away from a Cat 1,2 womens' field...
> In terms of Crits I like racing with the 1,2 women as I am more of a
> sprinter and like their experience and don't care that much about winning as
> I do about having a good fun and safe race...But on long road races with
> lots of climbs I get dropped and would like the fact we could have Cat 3
> separate but NOT if that means the Cat 1,2 women don't get a race. Since Jen
> Akeroyd is my teammate and a Cat 2, I support you adding the 1,2's into our
> race at Cherry Pie if you can score them separately from the Cat 3's which I
> assume will be easy with only a few Cat 1,2's.
>
> I will pass this along to the rest of Sorella Forte Cat 3 women to have
> them give you their input as well.
> Anne Linton
> Sorella Forte Race Team Captain
> On Feb 6, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Leibowitz, Flo wrote:
>
> I'm forwarding this message from Heather, the Cherry Pie promoter with Jim
> Fischer. Cat 3 ladies especially, please read on.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Heather Paris [heather-faye@comcast.net]
> *Sent:* Saturday, February 06, 2010 1:58 PM
> *To:* sunny.gilbert@gmail.com; Leibowitz, Flo; jenakeroyd@hotmail.com
> *Subject:* Re: Women 1/2 fields in OBRA racing
>
> Could one of you please post the e-mail below to the OBRA women’s list
> serve? My subscription is slow in coming
> Thanks,
> Heather
>
>
> Hello,
> It was brought to my attention today that there has been much discussion
> about the cat3 women’s field at the Cherry Pie and the fact that we did not
> offer a cat1-2 women’s field this year. If you are interested in why we, as
> promoters, made this decision please read on.
>
>
> Since Jim and I took over the Cherry Pie in 2007 we have had an average of
> three cat 1-2 women each year. The lack of participation by the cat 1-2
> women was the ultimate reason we decided to not offer that field again this
> year. As they say, actions speak louder than words and we heard what was
> being said, the cat 1-2 women are not interested in racing the Cherry Pie.
> When we announced that there would not be a cat 1-2 women’s field in
> December we got three replies from unhappy 1-2 women racers.
>
>
> At the time it was our understanding that the cat 3 women REALLY didn’t
> want to race with the cat 1-2’s. To respond to this issue we chose to break
> out the 1-2 from the 3’s. With only three 1-2’s we could not justify
> offering a separate 1-2 field since we would loose money and a race of three
> really isn’t a race.
>
>
> I have taken the time today to read the posts about this subject and was
> surprised most women did not realize that by having an exclusive cat 3
> women’s field it would effectively eliminate the cat 1-2 women’s field at
> many races where there is a small showing of cat 1-2 women. The results from
> the survey are interesting since it was taken by women who now know what
> will happen to the cat 1-2 women if an exclusive cat 3 women’s field is
> offered. I really wish this new understanding would have been brought to
> our attention, as we are trying to provide what is most requested from the
> racers who attend our event. The only women we have heard from so far are
> cat 1-2. We have not received any feedback from cat 3’s who have changed
> their minds about wanting an exclusive women’s cat 3 field.
>
>
> Personally, I am a new cat3 racer and enjoy racing with the other
> categories. I just figured I was an outlier and decided to go with the
> majority of cat3 women who wanted an exclusive cat 3 field.
>
>
> So what do we do? We really need your input since this decision was made to
> make the race better for the cat 3 women. If the majority of cat3 womenGi
> now want to race with the 1-2 we need to know by Wednesday and we’ll see
> what we can do.
>
>
> Heather Paris
> Heather-faye@comcast.net
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