February arrives and Drace modifies the training sequence. Not dramatically, the modification is three specific changes to the footwork that account for the shift in my center of gravity, which has been changing since December in the small, daily way of things that accumulate gradually and then one morning are undeniable. He identifies it before I say anything because Drace identifies everything before it is said and he simply adjusts the sequence and says: this version now, and I say: yes, and we continue. Théo, who is at the training ground for his early morning session, watches Drace modify the sequence and then looks at me with the specific attention of someone cataloguing a new data point. He opens the second notebook. He writes: the sequence changes to accommodate. Drace does not

