Well, a couple of things to report, otherwise I wouldn’t be reporting it. I wanted to write about my training regime in a bit more detail, but it’s been a little light for the last two days because of especially bad pain. I’m always in a lot of pain, mostly in my legs, but I can generally cope with it. But then it flares up very badly once or twice a month and things become a lot more difficult. The last three days have been days like those. Training has also been difficult because the stiffness/numbness in my hands each morning has been getting worse. I don’t know whether this is because my condition is spreading or whether I’m sleeping more heavily due to exercising more…. and simply lying on my hands or something, like a cat. But it has meant that I haven’t been able to start training as early as I’d like, which is making it harder to fit into the day.

Anyway, I’ve managed to keep to two hours a day training on the rolling road, although it’s been hell and I haven’t exactly broken any records. I’ve done enough to keep myself from stiffening up and to keep my heart at almost-but-not-quite-ready-to-explode levels of activity at various points throughout the day, which is what I believe the World Health Organisation recommends. I might be paraphrasing.

The other news is that I am almost ready to order a new wheelchair! Details are being finalised and I’ll write about them once they are. If all goes as planned, estimated delivery time will be mid-August.

I can’t see everything going as planned, though. Can you?