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Summer has arrived.

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June 12th, 2020

By @Norbi

“Summer has arrived.
Dawn bird chirping indicated I had to leave. The coffee machine was still lazily whistling, but it brought the aromas to life.
In the sky, the Moon was still fighting his own battle, but the Sun had already indicated that now it was time for him. He smeared the dawn on the sky with blood red paint.
The wind caressed my face, it started to warm up. Silence everywhere, the roads silently tolerated the rolling of my wheels.
The wheat field bathed in gold, rocking softly.
These mornings, I can best immerse myself in my thoughts.
There is what …
On his way home, the city was already throbbing, with plenty of life on warm roads, like blood cells in his blood vessels.
Life. Summer.”

Ride To Fight Cancer

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May 07th, 2020

By Shawn Watson

I am a Stage 4 Lymphoma survivor and only survivor of five Cancer Warriors in my family.

Shawn Watson (World’s Okayest Cyclist)

This year I am riding 10,800 miles to raise funds for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (all year) and 1,000 miles for The Great Cycle Challenge (Child Cancer Research Fund) in June.

This helps understand the distance to travel and what I have travel – virtually.

Please consider donating.

Here is the link for my Ride to Fight Cancer donation:
https://pages.lls.org/tnt/sc/ambbr20/Worlds_Okayest_Cyclist

Here is the link for my Child Cancer Research Fund donation:
https://greatcyclechallenge.com/Teams/TeamAlivaWarriorPrincess

Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromyelitis Optica Awareness month

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February 21st, 2020

By Valsfactory

March 1st marks the beginning of the MS and NMO (also called Devic’s disease) awareness month.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease in which the body’s immune system attacks myelin, the outside layer of nerve cells.

Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is also an immune system attack. However, in this condition, the attack is focused only on the central nervous system (CNS). It’s sometimes just called neuromyelitis or Devic’s disease.

NMO is a rare disease that damages the optic nerve, brain stem, and the spinal cord. The cause of NMO is an immune system attack on a protein in the CNS called aquaporin-4.

It leads to optic neuritis, which causes pain in the eyes and loss of vision. Other symptoms can include muscle weakness, numbness, and bladder control problems.
MS attacks the entire CNS. It can affect the optic nerve, spinal cord, and brain.

The symptoms include numbness, paralysis, vision loss, and other problems. Severity varies greatly from person to person.

MS and neuromyelitis differ in the impact that episodes have on the body.
Symptoms of MS attacks are less severe than NMO attacks, especially in the early stages of the disease. The cumulative effects of these attacks can become very serious. However, they may also have a limited impact on a person’s ability to function.

NMO attacks, on the other hand, can be severe and lead to health problems that can’t be reversed. Early and aggressive treatment is important in reducing the harm caused by NMO.

NMO doesn’t have a progressive course like MS can. The symptoms in NMO are due only to attacks

Nearly 2.3 million persons are affected by MS in the world, whereas only around 300 000 persons are diagnosed with NMO. It is therefore still categorized as a rare disease

Both MS and NMO are incurable. There’s also no way to predict who’ll develop either of the diseases.

Interesting Article from New York Times Magazine

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February 13th, 2020

The New York Times Magazine.

Can the King of Ultrarunning Conquer a Race as Short as the Marathon?

By Joseph Bien-Kahn

The tone of the signage grows more frantic the farther you descend down South Kaibab Trail. At its starting point, atop the Grand Canyon’s South Rim, the trail is marked with notices reminding hikers that the path is without water and that “what goes down must go back up.” …

Read more here:

World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) 2019

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September 10th, 2019

https://www.iasp.info/wspd2019/

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day.

Suicide prevention remains a universal challenge. Every year, suicide is among the top 20 leading causes of death globally for people of all ages. It is responsible for over 800,000 deaths, which equates to one suicide every 40 seconds.

Every life lost represents someone’s partner, child, parent, friend or colleague. For each suicide approximately 135 people suffer intense grief or are otherwise affected. This amounts to 108 million people per year who are profoundly impacted by suicidal behaviour. Suicidal behaviour includes suicide, and also encompases suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. For every suicide, 25 people make a suicide attempt and many more have serious thoughts of suicide.

CYCLE AROUND THE GLOBE

https://www.charityfootprints.com/iasp/eventdetails

IASP’s Cycle Around the Globe Campaign supports community-based suicide prevention activities in lower and middle income countries. Activities that aim to help communities recognize suicidal feeling and support those in distress to seek help and avert a tragedy. This campaign is about finding mechanisms to spread the message exponentially into areas where there is limited knowledge of these life/death issues. 

We want our global community to engage with each other and to join together to spread awareness of suicide prevention. So please, cycle any distance on any road, track or gym and help us work together to prevent suicide.

Register now and plan your cycling for 10th September – 10th October when miles/kms will be logged here to go towards our collective goal. Last year participants from all over the world cycled 15 times around the world! Can we beat that this year?!

Please join the SSCC team to collect your miles:
https://www.charityfootprints.com/team?id=1213

89.6 kg

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Andras Beck
September 4th, 2019

Today is a milestone for me. This is the first time in 11 years that I weight less than 90kg.

Back in 2007, I was somewhere around 81kg (+/-1) when the sh*t hit the fan in the family, and I fell into depression. Sport activities almost stopped right away in November of 2007, and I switched to eat junk food.

I had some money as inheritance, so it wasn’t a real issue for 2,5 years, but my health was deteriorate fast – and I’ve put on 32kg of fat in 2 years.

It was very hard to snap out of the depression my mother’s suicide caused (the underlying cause was more than her suicide, but the last big push into depression was her actions), I’ve tried for years, and I’ve been lucky to have a wife (girlfriend back than) who is as supportive as she is. I don’t think I would made it without her ♥

When we became a family in 2013,I’ve started visiting a psychologist to dive head first into my issues and face them, and 3-4 years later I was able to think and talk about what happened, what I am, how I feel without struggling with the words.

Mind you, the depression is there, but how I handle it, and how I use the energy behind it is very different compared to few years ago. So here it is. Under 9⃣0⃣ kg means a theoretical milestone, of which means that the majority of the hard part is behind me. I’ve been fighting with myself for a while to reach that point, and I’m almost in tears doing so.

Still a long way ahead to reach my target (under 85 kg, add another long distance triathlon to the completed list, and learn how to be a real dad to my kids) but probably the hardest part is behind me, so time to focus on the long run from now on, not only about to live another day.

Thank you for the reading if you get to the end, you, and all the online community have a part of this recovery.

Andras

Code of Behavior

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Solitude Seekers CC is a Cycling Club!

It is a cycling club for any cyclist – no matter if you are in good health or facing mental (or physical) issues in your current life phase (like depression, burnout, insomnia, PTSD, etc.).
The basic idea of Solitude Seekers CC is to give people with mental issues a home base, where inspiration can be found and individual experiences can be shared.

It is a cycling club for any cyclist – no matter if you are riding fast or slow, for training or for recreation, on a road race bike, MTB, TT, gravel bike, Fixie, folding bike, or any other kind of two-wheeler (although we have to admit that we have quite a strong preference on road bikes 🙂 ).

And last but not least,

it is a cycling club for any cyclist – no matter if you are dense or bright, rich or poor, female or male (or any other gender), no matter if your skin is black, white, red, blue or whatever other color, no matter if you are an atheist, a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Budhhist, Hindu or whatever – and finally, no matter if your sexual orientation is straight, LGBTQ, asexual or whatever.

It simply doesn’t matter.

BUT:
We definitely do not accept any kind of racism, sexism, violence or any other form of degradation!

We are all cyclists and human beings, and that’s all that matters!

Oh yes, thanks Wilson for reminding me:
And we like to keep politics outside of the club too 🐺 ♥

Chris and Wilson
Solitude Seekers CC

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Lonely United ★ Never Drafting

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Solitude Seekers is a Cycling Club for everybody, no matter if you are poor or rich, white or black, green, blue, red or yellow; female or male (or others), straight or homosexual, bright or dense, etc.

But most of it, it is a cycling club for people facing depressions, burnouts, insomnia and all the rest of it. It is a club for people who believe road cycling* is helping them to overcome this period in life.

*but MTB, BMX, folding bikes, and all the rest too

For me personally I prefer to ride on my own, all alone in nature, feeling the power of my body but of the elements too. This is my way to free my mind. I have overcome my burnout and road cycling has helped me a lot.

Ok, I was riding before s**t hits the fan, but I never stopped during dejection. When it all started, riding helped me to run away from the problems. Later it helped me to get my thoughts sorted and to keep my mind free; but always it kept my body moving and forced me to go out into nature.

Therefore I love cycling.
And I would always recommend it to people facing similar situations.

#fightingdepressionwithfitness

Christian
@christian_chrome