Twin Ambitions - My Autobiography - Plot & Excerpts
I’d been thinking for a while that I needed a break from the track. I’d made lots of friends at St Mary’s, had some happy memories of my time there, but the truth of it was that during the first half of 2003 I’d lost some of my enthusiasm for running. That season I placed seventy-fourth overall in the World Championship Cross Country in Switzerland and finished second in the 5000 metres in the European Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland – the same race I’d won two years before in Grosseto, Italy. Chris Thompson won the race. My results had nothing to do with Alan Storey. For whatever reason, my heart just wasn’t in it. More than anything, I needed a break. First, though, I needed to save up for a plane ticket. Flying to Somalia wasn’t cheap. The airport at Mogadishu had been closed down since the civil war began, meaning I’d have to fly to Djibouti City, then catch a chartered plane across the border to Hargeisa. I wasn’t exactly rolling in cash. I had my lottery funding, which covered my basic costs, like food and kit.
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