Monson, MA - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

[equus123]

To add to my comment above... I make the suggestion because there's a promoter around these parts that doesn't care much for women's racing and this certainly reflects in the lack of women's races (if any) or prize money/merch or women's races going last - in the dead heat of the day. ...stuff like that.

My teammate did one of their races last year in the early season and had to join the men's 45+ I think (that or the men's 4/5's). Anyway, some dude didn't hold his line and she got taken out. Long story short - she broke her radius clear through. For starters, there was no medic, EMT, or ambulance at this race [aren't there supposed to be??]. Then second, she was sitting around for AN HOUR AND A HALF before help came for her.

From her experiences that day, our team nor other women's teams (and a few guys) signed up for this guy's races. There doesn't seem to be too much we can do because it's not like he neglected a women's race that was scheduled. There just weren't any at all. So the best thing we could do was not to support this guy.

[ChainsOflove]

Wow that is in stark contrast to the situation at the Housatonic race. There was an ambulance on site, from what I could see. also FOUR Sram cars. I guess the support was all at this race!

That's nasty about the women's Cat. I recently heard something similar, however, that they eliminated the lowest women's cat from cyclocross nationals. I know there was an outcry but I haven't heard the resolution of it.