Ciara Mageean

And he was like, come on, we'll just get a dog.

Well, have an easier life, one that's maybe got just a more level, level, level of happiness and sadness.

I laughed at him like, I was like, what are you talking about?

I did, I did.

I needed to jump ship pretty quickly.

Like everybody else wouldn't have known that that week in the lead up to Paris was so stressful.

I was trying to, I was trying to get out.

numerous injections into my ankle to try to quash the pain trying to rehab back with such a tight time frame and the stress that that was causing and the anxiety and the sadness that that was bringing and then withdrawn from the Games and

I was like, I need to get out of this city.

I just need to get out.

And poor Thomas, I left him behind again.

I was like, I'm jumping ship.

I am heading home.

And it just so happened that one of my closest friends, Ashlyn, one of my school friends from Assumption in Balnahinch was having her hen in Belfast.

And I was obviously going to miss the hen because it was coinciding with the Olympics.

And I was like...

Sometimes things in life happen for a reason.

That hen just so happened to be at a time whenever I actually needed my friends around me.

And I surprised the girls, messaged one of the girls to be like, can you tell me the itinerary?

Where are the girls gonna be?