Hi Brian,

Thank you for responding. I understand that the scheduling was not
intended to disadvantage the women and I know that organizing races is
difficult enough without trying to cater to everyone. I just figured
I'd mention the discrepancy in case no one else noticed it. As it
stands, the collegiate schedule is fine, so as far as collegiate
racing is concerned, it really shouldn't matter what time the
non-collegiate races are held. It's just that this early in the season
with no race on Sunday, it would have been a good training opportunity
if the women were able to get in two races as smoothly as the men.
Maybe I will do the CU ride instead. Thanks for the heads up.

Kimberly


----- Original Message Follows -----
From: Brian Hludzinski <bhlud@...>
To: kgarvie <kgarvie@...>, RMCCycling@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: RMCC: CU - unfair women's race times
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:39:32 -0800 (PST)
>
> Hello Kimberly,
>
> I'm sorry, it wasn't intentional. Originally we had a
> USCF women's category in with the women's USCF race.
> There was a lot of push back and we had already had
> the afternoon schedule set, so we added an additional
> womens category at the end of the day. I apologize
> for any inconvenience.
>
> Brian
> --- kgarvie <kgarvie@...> wrote:
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > I'm sure you must have your reasons, but I am
> > wondering why the
> > women's races are separated by 7 hours, whereas each
> > one of the men's
> > categories are only separated by 3 hours?? Setting
> > up the race weekend
> > like this does not encourage women to race more. It
> > is unfair because
> > men in all other categories have the opportunity to
> > race twice with
> > only three hours in between, unlike the women who
> > would have to stick
> > around ALL day long to get a second race in. Please
> > try not to set up
> > your race times like this in the future if you are
> > trying to encourage
> > women to race.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kimberly Garvie
> > UW Cycling
> >
>
>
>
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