@JamesT, @Philmet1 thank you for raising this. We discussed at the committee last week so apologies for my tardiness in getting back to you (lots on this week).
You are right there is no easy answer to this. Whatever rides we put on there will always be a few people who are "inbetweeners". Realistically we don't have enough ride leaders to run a fourth ride every week, nor do we have enough members to populate and sustain four rides a week.
The best middle ground that we could come up with at the committee meeting was bringing in "step up rides". This means the first Sunday of each month would allow those who are thinking of moving up to the medium or fast rides to have a go without fear of being dropped i.e. the rides aim for their usual pace but it is given on those Sundays that the pace would fall to the slowest rider (provided of course they are realistic about their nearness of ability to maintain the ride speed - we wouldn't want someone trying to jump up 4mph for example).
Hopefully this will help "inbetweeners" get an idea of the next pace up and help them work towards it.
That was the committee suggestion. What do you think?
@MattH
@JamesT, @Philmet1 thank you for raising this. We discussed at the committee last week so apologies for my tardiness in getting back to you (lots on this week).
You are right there is no easy answer to this. Whatever rides we put on there will always be a few people who are "inbetweeners". Realistically we don't have enough ride leaders to run a fourth ride every week, nor do we have enough members to populate and sustain four rides a week.
The best middle ground that we could come up with at the committee meeting was bringing in "step up rides". This means the first Sunday of each month would allow those who are thinking of moving up to the medium or fast rides to have a go without fear of being dropped i.e. the rides aim for their usual pace but it is given on those Sundays that the pace would fall to the slowest rider (provided of course they are realistic about their nearness of ability to maintain the ride speed - we wouldn't want someone trying to jump up 4mph for example).
Hopefully this will help "inbetweeners" get an idea of the next pace up and help them work towards it.
That was the committee suggestion. What do you think?