I had instead, been going out with David every Friday night to have dinner and go dancing before catching the two o’clock train home, drunk and exhausted on Saturday morning. It was wreaking havoc on my training schedule, but I didn’t have any big races planned until January, meaning that I was happy to have a bit of fun for now. Most mornings I would catch the train to work with David so I advised him of my plans that morning, and never being one to miss out of a good time, he wanted to come along as well. Elliot was next on my list to inform, I told him when we were training up in the gym at lunch time, while we were doing sit ups and throwing a medicine ball at each other. “Is that wise?” he asked cautiously, as he threw the ball to me. I caught it and leaned back with it over my head, hefting it up to return it before I answered. He caught it quickly, stopping the exercise to listen. “Yeah, I think I need to show them I can go, and that you and I can be normal around each other.
