Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at the 50 list website.
I am now in my 50s, having turned that magic number back in December 2012. I am married to Lisa and we have three great children and a dog called Berry.
We live in Wellingborough and have done since we moved up from London in 1999.
I have a disability., I use a wheelchair, but I am not disabled!
It’s amazing the number of people that still like to use that term, ‘disabled’. I believe that everyone on this planet has a disability. It’s just that some are more pronounced than others. If you wear glasses isn’t that a disability? If someone has a hearing aid isn’t that a disability?
In the past, I have done many crazy and extreme things that I felt I needed to have a go at. I have tried water skiing, gliding, 4×4 off-road competitions, abseiling, played drums in a band, raced go-carts and up until the end of 2010, I was competing in the National Drag Racing Championships. I like to do these things because it lets me know that I’m not wasting away my life just sitting in my chair saying ‘I wish I could do that’. I do these things to find out where the limitations are and in fact, my limitations aren’t where I thought they were because often or not I surpass them. Then I feel alive!
In 2012 I took part in a track day at Silverstone with my Mazda MX5. It felt great to be out on the track finding the limit of my cars suspension, steering and speed. And that’s what I do find the limit.
On Friday 16th February the BBC’s The One Show run a report on my efforts.