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Also, some have found the step up from 60 minutes of beginners to the 120 of intermediates to be quite large. It is important to recognise when you are struggling and when you have had enough – track-craft visibly declines in those desperately clinging on and it is then that mistakes occur. You won't get a medal for pushing yourself into the red to last a session, but you will be very unpopular if your attention wanders, you clip a wheel and go down taking four others with you.
This isn't meant in any way to put you off - Intermediates is a more comfortable session and a better learning environment because for the most part everyone knows where they should be and what they should be doing, you'll pick up the good habits far quicker than you would fighting your way through a beginner session. Plus you get more time for your money, and that means more fun. I just wish to highlight that it isn't a trivial leap.