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[QUOTE="kathy127, post: 452583, member: 25884"]
My first race was probably 3 months after my first ride on the bike.  I rode in a Harescrambles and ended up riding backward on the track, something I found out when lapping riders  started coming at me.  I was wondering where everyone else was.
Never fear, I turned around again and still had a blast.  Next 'race', I actually 'came in', last, but came in.  Next race I actually beat someone!  That was a thrill.  And so it went. Now I ride National races.  Racing will improve your riding more than tooling around the forest (nothing wrong with that, though) because you try to keep up with all those other folks.  Even if only for a couple hundred feet.   Then someone else passes you and you try to keep up with him.  It is all great fun.  By the time I finished my first season of racing, I moved up to the men's classes because they got the   long course,  whereas the women were relegated to a short, boring course.  Have fun.  Keep riding.  We women are out there, it is just not always obviousl because there are so few women classes.
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