... but you can't catch it by reading this. So I'm not doing any running for now.
Gosport half marathon next weekend. If I'm sufficiently better.
Last weekend was nice. I had a hypnosis "CPD" seminar on Saturday, then spent the evening with Karen, and visited Brighton for a RW lunchtime social on Sunday while K was on a course. As is not unusual, fewer people turned up for the social than expected -- it was blooming freezing that day, and then it rained, and anyone who'd actually run probably needed a hot bath rather than a session in the pub. Still, I quite like a small but perfectly formed social. I met a couple of people I knew, and a couple of new ones.
I suspect part of the attendance problem is caused by a tendency of some people to post, the day of the event or the day before, something like "Is this still on?" casting doubt upon it, or "that pub isn't very nice, why don't we meet in X other pub" throwing everyone into doubt as to where we'll meet. It happened at Beachy Head too. If you don't catch these "fear and doubt" posts in time and answer them firmly, it confuses everyone. There ought to be severe punishments for posting such things shortly before an event. "I just wondered", they'll say, having confused the hell out of everyone. We always meet in Horatio's in Brighton, and yes, it isn't all that nice, but it's always empty and always easy to find .... and then the day before, someone posted "shall we meet somewhere else"...
The hypnosis thing was good. I learned some useful techniques, not mainly from the presentation itself, more from talking to a few full-time professional hypnotherapists in the break.
