One of the top collegiate female bicycle racers in the United States is busy training with her teammates at UC Davis for the first college race of the new year Feb. 8-9. Beth Young, a graduate student in community development, is the leader of the UC Davis team -- the largest women's collegiate team in the nation, and former national champions. Hoping to regain that honor won in 1994, team members ride hundreds of miles a week, eat high calorie diets, lift weights and train with heart monitors to know when they reach maximum aerobic capacity. "The hardest part of bike racing is overcoming the fear factor," says Young. "Riding down mountains at 50 miles per hour or around tight corners in a pack of 20 riders can be scary." Both the men's and women's teams compete in the Western Collegiate Cycling conference, which has 26 clubs and more than 600 members, according to Jason Jimenez, race director of the Cal Aggie Cyclists. The individual and team time trials will be held on Saturday, Feb. 8, on the UC Davis campus. The two-day event is expected to attract several hundred collegiate riders representing 13 colleges in Nevada and California. There will be three races, an individual time trial, a team time trial and a criterium.