Here is the current club situation for me...

There is a regional club which is mainly for the 55+ crowd going fairly slow. There are a couple B pace rides (which I go on), that group is guys in their 30s/40s who don't race. I have learned to work a pace line with them, and we occasionally bump arms etc, one guy has been really helpfull in showing me how to stay close to a tire w/o touching, etc. But that is the extent of bike handling skills I'll learn there.

There is a local team, but to the best of my knowledge, they are all really fast (25mph+) guys. There were two women, but through my use of google, it appears they have both moved (one to a pro team up north).

I'll be joining a college team this fall, and I'm trying to find out if the only other gal on the team (an A rider) might be around for the summer. I'm also going to ask the LBS guys if they know any women in the area, maybe I'll have some luck there.

The race I'm looking at has a seperate cat 4 women's race, it's 15 one mile laps, no women (any cat.) have registered yet, but the men's fields are almost full.