SS,
When you race you will ride faster than you would normally think you can. This is due to the drafting and due to the adrenaline. But don't let the adrenaline think you are better than you are as happenned to me in my first race in E grade at Black Hill. It was a combined D & E and I rode away from them because I thought they were going too slow. I should have stayed up the back because they overtook me and rode off into the distance.
When you race, Sunday morning is a good start with Hunter Valley Vets.
Just do me a favour. If you see a woman there in F grade ride behind her all the way and overtake her right at the end. As you are overtaking her give her a smile and tell her not to correct Daddy Walrus' grammar.