The preparation is in full swing. The route has been established, hotels booked, just giving page set up, the trailer to pull behind the wheelchair with our eight month son prepared and tested!
The next step is to prepare the wheelchair. Take it for a service, oil the parts, rotate the batteries. We have two spare wheels which hopefully will be enough. Last year's challenge, 215 miles across the country, saw only one puncture. I am sure we can beat it this time and have none!
Off course the challenge is designed to raise the money. This year we try social media to increase the donations. We have set up a Twitter account (@whellchairchall) which aims to be posting live updates from the challenge. With pictures and comments on the go, there will be instant messages so anybody can follow what we are up to. Trans-pennine Trail is following us on Twitter and promised to send some updates about obstacles.
It is all about access and obstacles! On Sunday the BBC Countryfile featured a piece about Roy improving the disabled access to RSPB reserves to make them examplars of accessibility. It was an excellent guest appearance! John Craven called Roy a remarkable and inspirational man. The words will keep us going when the challenge gets tough.
Roy's appearance on countryfile send the Twitter account (@wheelchairchall) mad. Within a day we increased our followers from 22 to 150. The inbox got blocked with Twitter messages. The aim is to get 200 followers until Friday. That's tomorrow!!!
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