My daughter, a frosh, is in her first year on her high school mountain biking team and feeling kind of daunted.

She says practices are exhausting and she's always the slowest.  She's wondering when she's going to start having fun.  The team is friendly, not overly competitive, and has a lot of girls, so I don't think those are problems.  Is the first season just really hard?  Anybody have a similar experience?