
One upshot is that I've taken to doing a few of those 'how-fit-are-you-really?' tests can I balance for more than a minute, run a mile without collapse, resist chaining the entire pack of fags, that sort of thing. Which goes some way to explain how last week I found myself on Oxford Street in the waning sunlight of late afternoon, in front of a sizeable crowd, handing over a tenner to a canny hustler. Hang from a bar for 100 seconds, he said, win £100. The catch-the bar is not static but rolls-renders a relative doddle in the gym a near impossibility, as I discovered fairly sharpish.
But not that sharpish. And not so sharpish that the crowd didn't murmur a little. Bravo, Ellis. Forty-five seconds in and a boy, late teens, turned to his mate. "The Jew is doing well," he said. I was the only one to flinch.
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