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It may seem great right now that track league is full of new faces and the tills are ringing at sign-on but the truth is that cycling is in it's heyday and a lot of those new faces will be gone in 2-3 years to whatever the next cool thing is. When that happens if the regulars have upped sticks and gone somewhere else HHV will be in a dark place.
Having seen first hand the damage that can be done in cycling accidents, HHV needs to find a way to promote fun, healthy competition rather than a win-at-all-odds mentality. I've watched the coaches clamp down on the racing at the end of inter training and that should be applauded but a lot of those people are now finding their racing-fix in TL or Monday night race training so maybe you should focus some energy there.
These same problems are prevalent in all the local crits down at the 3/4 level but there, it is far less controllable so be grateful that HHV has the ability to more closely manage their way out of this situation.
Anyway.... I've got a 600km bike ride starting in a couple of hours.