One thing I've learned is that cycling as an activity for sports and/or fitness and/or recreation is an individual process and comparisons to other cyclists are not useful. I do understand what you desire to know and that is how do other female cyclists ride. I am 57 years old and I ride a Trek Madone. I belong to three different cycling groups (no clubs), of which two are training groups and one is a recreational group. The weekend training group is mostly males and the focus is on distance and climbing, and my focus is trying to stay up with the lead pack so I don't get lost, and being the only older female, the males get up the steep climbs faster than me and I find myself sprinting on the downside to put them in sight again. The Tuesday a.m. group is about short and fast and bike skills. Members of the recreation group will join with me on event rides, even when there is a lot of elevation gain, and sometimes want to join me when I am out doing a solo ride for distance and/or climbing. I ride with my Garmin and keep track of my stats through the months and years. I now use http://ridewithgps.com to map hilly routes in advance as this site gives me the grade percentage that matches up exactly to the readings on my Garmin when I run the cursor over the route, and matches up to the GPS bike computers of other cyclists in my training groups, so I no longer have surprises like mile-long 20% grade climbs that are beyond my ability and I believe the site to be accurate. What is disconcerting for me though, is that most females my age want to bike the easiest way, slow on bike trails, avoid even the smallest of the hills, and in a group they take the short route options and ride real slow. This means I ride with males that are stronger and faster than me, and/or younger females that are lighter and faster than me. Despite my age, I've made considerable improvement over the past few years, can bike more category climbs and miles of continuous climbs, pull a paceline into a headwind and ride a century if I feel so inclined. I have no desire to do double centuries, brevets or tours as I am active enough and happy with the amount of cycling I do, which totaled about 6500 miles last year.