Quote Originally Posted by AllezGirl View Post
Interesting that you bring this up. I just took over as women's coordinator of the Pennsylvania Women's Racing organization, (http://www.pawomenscycling.org/) which is a division of Cycling Made Real (http://cyclingmadereal.wordpress.com/).

Often times it's like swimming up steam to get promoters to offer one women's race, let alone two (an elite and beginner), but with the support of local organizations, it is happening! If anyone would like more information, feel free to send me a PM.
Don't give up hope - things really can change. Before I started racing it was the same out here. Fields too small to support different categories - everyone always mixed together. By the time I started (I'll have been racing for 4 years this year) there was almost always a separate cat 4 field. Last year, for the first time we had a series of separate cat 3 races, and this year we will have more. Promoters do eventually come around, as long as you can bring out the numbers to support the races they will get behind you.