PE teachers can wreck your health. Dr Anne Elliott found that bad experiences in school PE actively deterred people from taking exercise in later life & led to a state of alienation from their own bodies. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/22163/ 

There was a crew of savvy girls who knew the exact spot where you could break off the cross country course, nip over into the graveyard for a fag, then rejoin the course further along on the other side

One of them - Alison F, God love her - even showed me the proper technique for hiding matches under the bra strap in such a way that they did not rattle & give the game away. Not something I ever had occasion to use but I appreciated the confidence

Anyway, though catharsis is satisfying, I think the important point of Dr Elliott's research is that people who suffered corporeal disassociation as a result of school PE can still be helped to enjoy exercise in later life through bespoke training

Lots of you in the same situation it seems. This is the least isolated I've felt all lockdown

Don't reeeeeaalllly want to talk about my own PE teachers except to say that the decent one is still decent & the psychopath was not in the job for long; there are Stories about why & how his employment ended

He tried to pick me up, when he was no longer working at our school. Offered to take me 'for a shandy' in his car.

Mm hmm.

Afterword: Dr Elliott offering to let people read the full research paper https://twitter.com/DrAnneElliott/status/1249258545763278849?s=19

Also, this excellent documentary is still up. Don't know if people outside the UK can listen to it but I'm sure there are ways and means https://twitter.com/Cavalorn/status/1094913786820083714?s=19