Guinness posted:

I didn't get mad or make any snide remarks in the course. I made friends with the other riders and even the instructors while I was there. But I was still frustrated (to myself) by the painfully slow pace while waiting my turn in the hot sun. I still had fun and learned a lot, i just wish the pace was like 3x faster.

I took the beginner course because I fit the description of "beginner". Never ridden a real motorcycle before the first day of the BRC, just lots of bicycles and a few hundred kilometers on janky centrifugal clutch (i.e., no hand operated clutch) scooters in Asia. The people I took the BRC through don't have different levels of BRC, I didn't know BRC2 was even a thing.