Worst spin class ever!!

Warning - I will winge in this post, so stop reading now if you don't want to listen to me complain.

I do 2 spin classes a week at the Macquarie Uni. gym. Both start at 5:15 and i need to get there well ahead of time to get a ticket for the class etc. This means I skip lunch at work and make sure I get there in time.

For the second time, I reach the class to find out that the regular instructor (who is excellent!!) couldn't make it and has instead been replaced by this girl who is here from the US for the summer semester. The first time I was in this girl's class I was unhappy and so were all the other regulars but we let it pass.

But she was back again today. And we weren't warned. It was a crap class. She made us do the same thing for 25 minutes with awful girlie-pop music playing in the background. All she says during class is "good job". Even before we start the work out she is already good jobbing us. We could just sit on the bike and curse and she would still say we did a good job. She reckons its better to hold personal giggly conversations with her other girlfriends who are around her than to take control and get the whole class involved and motivated. Unbelievable! She is so breathless that by the 30 minute mark she switched to sign language and decides to end the 45 minute class after only half an hour. Umm ok I admit I was glad the torture was over. At the end she told us how "awesome" we all were and that we had all done a "good job".

As I walked out in disbelief I met one of the girls who goes to a lot of spin classes at the gym and asked her if she had ever been to this girl's class. It was like hearing myself speak.

So...I did what Eric would have done :D I wrote a long letter of dissatisfaction with dire warnings that I would keep writing long annoying letters if I had to attend another one of her classes without being warned.

Wanting to know when I check in and get the ticket that the regular instructor can't make it isn't unreasonable, is it?