Race with or without a team?

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While I've hardly been in the situation personally, from what I've seen in some parts of the country - there are surely events with few women and that alludes to aicabsolut's point about the lack of teammates or participants.

Regarding commitment - would you be expected to compete in a certain number of races, after joining a team?

Around here we certainly are not suffering from a lack of participation - we are getting to the point where, at least early in the season, we are filling cat 4 fields and have separate cat 3 fields in a good many races. I'm on an all women's team so having teammates around is certainly not an issue for me. We have about 80 members, the majority are 4's, there are a handful of us 3's and a pretty good 1,2 team

As far as commitment goes - it totally depends on the team. Some teams are more strict than others. Some require a commitment to race, some require participation in team rides, others have no formal requirements at all.