Quote Originally Posted by SadieKate View Post
With their education and non-racing career experience, it would also be interesting to compare post-racing lives between the men and the women - stable careers and domestic partnerships, drug use, health, etc.
Many of the women have to have stable lives outside of cycling while they are doing it.... unless you are at the very top tiers of the pros, as a woman you can't really live off of it... A lot of women, even those near the top of the domestic sport have day jobs (I think the woman who won Nature Valley last year is a school teacher if I remember properly...) Many have jobs in the sport industry with employers sympathetic to the amount of time they are away... To be able to hold everything together - regular life and top competition, I would think you would have to already be a very stable and together person...