Well a quick rundown of todays' events.

I went down the gym this morning for an hours workout on my own, Louise couldn't come down with me because she had one or two things to do at home. I had a good workout on the dumbells and stayed clear of the inverted rowing machine seeing as I got stuck on it last time I tried to use it on my own. I saw Frank my trainer down there who was training a newcomer and we had a quick chat. Other than that it was a quiet session but it felt good and I can feel that the training is starting to pay off.

When I got home Lou told me that she had uploaded some of our recent pictures on to the laptop so I can start uploading them to the website. This one was taken at the gym whilst I was bench pressing. It's one of those exercises that I can get on and off safely myself, so no problems on that front.

This afternoon I had a meeting with John Willemsen. John works at the Eibergen/Borculose Sports Federatie. We talked about setting up a project called Class on Wheels in which we hope to go into schools and local businesses and introduce people to disability sport.

What we thought would be good idea was to give adults and kids the chance to experience what it is to sit in a wheelchair and to try some disability sports themselves. The types of sport that we had in mind were wheelchair hockey, perhaps wheelchair rugby, wheelchair basketball. We also plan to go a little way into the local community to show them some of the day to day obstacles facing a wheelchair dependant person. It would also be good to have either another spinally injured person along with me to help out or perhaps someone with another disability to explain disability from another view point.

If anyone reading this has set something like this up before or wants to get involved, I would be pleased to hear from you. You can leave comments at the bottom of the post and I will get to them in due time or you can leave a message for me using the form on the contact page.

On arriving home I decided to go out for a ride on my hand bike. After fighting my way into the back of the cupboard to get my thick trousers out, I rolled over to bed and wormed my way into my thermal leggings and eventually my trousers. I got my bike out of the shed, saddled up and was ready for the off. Just as I wheeled out into the back garden the biggest, blackest rain cloud came over the top of the neighbours roof and opened up right on top of me. Soaked to the skin, I got off my bike and went back inside to worm my way back out of my trousers and long johns and I am now sitting behind the laptop trying to warm myself up with a bit of tea and some blogging.

Well I'm going to leave this blog for now 'cause I've got to get the dinner ready. I'll put some more of my thoughts down later on.