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The novice group last week was pretty frustrating - the induction over-ran so much that that it ended up being a really short session - it ended just as I was getting warmed up. I suppose it's unavoidable when there are so many people doing the induction with the good weather, but it's not great for people like me who are a bit slow for the Saturday morning session, but have a bit more experience than the just-inducted people.
No idea what the solution is - I'm working on my fitness and would like to move to the morning session by later in the summer, but I definitely don't want to be slowing anyone down.
I don't think anybody's to blame - it's never going to be easy to cater to such a wide range of skills/fitness and lots of people doing the induction can't be a bad thing, but it would be nice if the novice session could be a bit more clearly defined as separate from the induction - both times I've done it this year there's been a bit of confusion over when we can get onto the track. Anyway, fingers crossed it'll be better today.