Lots of brainstorming here; none of it is particularly well thought out.
Anyway, to me it's not necessarily terrible to say that if the mob turns out to be above some critical number, to split it into hard-core and medium-core groups (or medium-core and squishy-core, if you will). It's really hard to keep 8-10 people moving, because if anyone needs to stop, then everyone should, and it's important for people to eat or stretch or whatever.
It may not be horrible socially either. The slow person might be happier in a squishy-core group anyway. Maybe it does come back to goals: can you hold together a large-ish group if some people are trying to work their way up to a century, and some are trying to see lots of pretty sights and generally enjoy themselves? (Obviously the goals can, and maybe should, be more specific than these.)
A lot of us have Eastern Mass bikemaps. Maybe it'd help if, at the meet-up point, we spent 10-15 minutes where the person who planned the route and put together the cue sheet (I guess this is always you) went over it with whoever else was interested? This might be nice even if there's no splitting up; for instance, I think the hard climb in Roslindale would've been more easily doable if we *knew* it'd be followed by 2.3 miles of Turtle Pond Parkway descent. :)
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Date: 2007-07-10 03:03 am (UTC)Anyway, to me it's not necessarily terrible to say that if the mob turns out to be above some critical number, to split it into hard-core and medium-core groups (or medium-core and squishy-core, if you will). It's really hard to keep 8-10 people moving, because if anyone needs to stop, then everyone should, and it's important for people to eat or stretch or whatever.
It may not be horrible socially either. The slow person might be happier in a squishy-core group anyway. Maybe it does come back to goals: can you hold together a large-ish group if some people are trying to work their way up to a century, and some are trying to see lots of pretty sights and generally enjoy themselves? (Obviously the goals can, and maybe should, be more specific than these.)
A lot of us have Eastern Mass bikemaps. Maybe it'd help if, at the meet-up point, we spent 10-15 minutes where the person who planned the route and put together the cue sheet (I guess this is always you) went over it with whoever else was interested? This might be nice even if there's no splitting up; for instance, I think the hard climb in Roslindale would've been more easily doable if we *knew* it'd be followed by 2.3 miles of Turtle Pond Parkway descent. :)