I remember being in a group practicing cornering on the flat and having awful problems keeping with the group as we got out of the corner. The person coaching us kept telling me to "keep up" - I think he thought I was being too cautious through the corner, or something. I felt at the time that it was more of an inablilty to power out of the corner (I was the only woman in that group, and although I cannot not use my gender as an excuse I did wonder if it was a power thing). It sounds like one could train to improve that, anyway.
To be honest, although there are oportunites to take part in races for women here (and the odd training day) I've never got round to giving it a go... I do find even being in a training bunch quite scary enough! Running and triathlon don't have the same competence issues/learning curve.
