INSIDE THE WORLD OF MEETUP

Only a tiny handful of meetups I have ever come home disappointed from but unfortunately this was one of them. On the surface it seemed to be a good afternoon, nice outdoor pub, food and live music. The pub was very close to where we had been walking just a few weeks earlier. We sat outside from around an hour before it started raining and everyone went back into the small pub and it was a bit of a mad scramble to get a table.  The second problem was the group I was with, it seemed everyone was in the 15-20 years older than myself age range. On all other events there seemed to be a good mixture of ages but this time I felt out of place. A couple of people started to leave before 4 and I left to catch the bus home at 4:30.

  A week earlier I'd been diagnosed with post viral fatigue and wasn't still feeling good. However I needed to get out the house and this walk was a lot shorted than what they usually do. Typically I had a choice between spend 2 hours on a bus waiting for connections or walking for about an hour from Markfield via the edge of Bradgate park. I chose the walk and actually spent more time walking to the start of the walk than the actual walk itself. It was a loop of less than 4 miles and we were back to the carpark within an hour. Short, simple and with how I was feeling glad I didn't go any further. Got a lift to the Badgers Sett pub in nearby Cropston others had food but after paying a hefty 3 pound 15 for a diet coke I waited until I got home. A woman from the walk also gave me a lift to Glenfield and dropped me off at the bus stop 2 minutes before the bus arrived.....