I know this is always something that needs to be taken with a thought process that allows you a learning curve that is outside an obvious physical exertion but the relationship between the thought and the action is very conected
Raw food for depression and sport
I have been so slack of late partly because I have been struggling with direction and other issues that I have to deal with in managing my depression. Since I have had to stop running because of my ankle injury I have lost a method of depression managment I have used for many years. I have always been conscious of my diet and have commented on this blog before today about the benefits of a raw food diet I though I would put this video up about this fellow who is getting some great results in his running endevours on a raw food diet
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Back on the bike and in the water not afraid of shark attacks
I will be commenting on more issues in regards to the place I stayed,but for now I would like to say thanks for those who wondered where I have been and thanks to all those who helped me along the way.
After the experience that I have gone through and understanding that I am not alone with the need to have help deal with depression and its related symptoms I will be coordinating an awareness walk and meet at Caboolture In Southeast Queensland .
It is in conjunction with The Glasshouse Adventure Series of Trail Runs There will be a celebrity meet with On-screen hero, Neighbours heart throb Brett Tucker, who is set to take on one of his most challenging roles – running 30 kilometers through the bush in tropical Queensland. I will be updating more regularly now I have myself back in the place of functionality. I will continue to post comments on my love of my triathlon sport and great feats of people who go through difficulty and come out on the other side using sport as a way to to be able to step up to the start line of life again. see Tracy’s story http://www.watzzupsport.com/2008/01/20/triathlete-beats-depressionand-booze-with-one-leg/
Brett Tucker who plays schoolteacher, and all-round nice guy Daniel Fitzgerald in the long-running soap, has signed on to run in the 2008 Extreme Challenge, which will be held in the stunning Glasshouse Mountains near Brisbane on Sunday, May 18.
The 2008 Extreme Challenge,is an event – organised by Melbourne-based charity One in Five, which raises funds for the Mental Health Research Institute (MHRI) of Victoria
One in Five’s Ryan Wavish said a new Extreme Challenge was held each year to raise money through sponsorship for the MHRI. “Another critical element of the event is that it raises awareness of the positive link between physical activity and mental health,” Mr Wavish said. ““The challenge is physical to highlight the importance of long-term exercise in the fight against mental illness. We want to give people the chance to experience this for themselves by participating in a long-term exercise programme. It is also extreme – so we can gain maximum exposure to raise awareness.
Runners train for up to five months in preparation for the event. Training plans, expert advice and a weekly group running session is provided free of charge by Group Exercise Therapy, a specialist group training organisation headed by director Ryan Wavish who is also a One in Five Committee Member.
Wavish, who will take on the 30km run in the Extreme Challenge, says he is thrilled to support One in Five because his work had allowed him to experience first-hand the benefits that exercise brought to mental health.
“Regular exercise, even if it’s just an evening jog around the park or a 20-minute stretch and aerobic routine, makes a world of difference to our emotional wellbeing; so to be able to raise funds and raise awareness while raising our pulse rates is a perfect fit,” Wavish said.
“It’s great that so many people have already signed on for the run. We hope that this year’s Extreme Challenge will raise over $60,000 through sponsorship.
The first Extreme Challenge was held in 2006, when Wavish and 10 other people trekked the gruelling Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea, raising more than $50,000. This, in conjunction with another successful Extreme event and other fundraising effortsbrought the total donations for that year to over $150,000. Actor Bernie Curry (Neighbours, Monster House) participated in the Kokoda Challenge.
The 2007 Challenge saw over 50 people participating in the Great Ocean Road marathon and half marathon. Wavish also provided months of free training for this event, which raised over $75,000.
One in Five holds a number of other events each year, such as its outrageous “Extreme” party and a retro surfing competition.
The money One in Five donates to the MHRI is used to investigate more targeted, and therefore more effective, drug treatment for depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The charity hopes this research will help to prevent suicidal behaviour and ultimately determine the causes of mental illness.
For more information about One in Five, please go to: www.oneinfive.com.au.
One in Five is a group of friends whose lives have been significantly affected by an affliction affecting one in five Australians – mental illness. A not-for-profit organisation, it is staffed by volunteers dedicated to generating greater awareness of mental illness in our society, and raising funds for research on prevention and treatment. Since 2003, One in Five has raised just under $500,000 for the MHRI. Donations to One in Five are tax-deductible.
As for the title of the post, as always I see things that go on in life, played out in the sporting arena. When you have a prang on the bike you get up and get back on, some dude gets a shark bite or as happened here recently, a life was tragically lost due to shark attack you do not stay out of the water you may be more vigilant and that is the learning you have received, but you get back in the water just as life sends a few curve balls you learn what from it, be grateful and get back into life again.
You always can only get the thrill of achieving your goal be it a race, healthy lifestyle, healthy relationship, If you are prepared to step up to the start line and say bring it on I can do this I will leave you with this
Hail Hearty and lustly shout
all is fine in the world
and my heart is keen
to garner all
knowledge passion and experiance,
that my foot prints show
not where I did not go,
but where
I have wonderingly been
Triathlete beats depression,and booze with one leg
Tracey Moore, who became an amputee after a failed suicide attempt, competes to inspire others.
The human spirit is a magnificent thing. Like all life on this planet add the right amount of sunshine, correct watering and life flourishes. Again here I see sport taking a role in the wonderful story of Tracy taking control of her life.
Sport has the ability to be so much more than smelly shoes and expensive supplements.
Most of the details of that day are fuzzy, but there is one image Tracey Moore has permanently ingrained in her memory.
The date was Feb. 26, 2000. The emergency room physician at Long Beach Memorial Hospital dangled a leg by its big toe in front of her face.
It was her leg.
The muscles and tendons were severed, the bones crushed.
Hours earlier, Tracey, then 38, purposely stepped onto the train tracks at the Wardlow Station in Long Beach in an attempt to end her “pathetic” life, as she refers to it. It was a life ravaged by alcoholism and the human wreckage left in its wake.
Tracey’s right leg was amputated below the knee that day. She received a craniotomy the next day to mend a depressed section on the back of her skull. She has a steel plate in her head.
SELF DESTRUCTION
Tracey recalls dabbling with alcohol in junior high. The drinking increased in high school.
“It got to be more than the Friday night football games,” Tracey said.
Attractive and extraverted, Moore immersed herself in what she calls “the Hollywood thing.” In her late teens and 20’s, the party girl earned small parts in movies, did some modeling and was in a few beauty contests. Drinking went hand-in-hand with all of it.
From age 30 to 40, there were several futile attempts at sobriety.
“Life would get good and I would sabotage it, taking a drink and thinking I can,” said Tracey, who was downing about two quarts of vodka daily during the worst of her drinking. “At 6:15 in the morning when the liquor stores opened, I would be there.”
Even the failed suicide attempt wasn’t enough to rattle her into sobriety The day she had the staples removed from the top part of her leg and her head, Moore hobbled to the liquor store on crutches and was off on another binge.
In the fall of 2002, Tracey got booted out of a sober living home. She wound up in a trashy motel. One day she woke up beaten up and bruised. She had no recollection of what happened.
Finally, on Oct. 5, 2002, looking unkempt with dried vomit on her dress, Tracey checked herself into the rehabilitation program at the Salvation Army in Anaheim. She was done killing herself.
SELF REALIZATION
At about 90 days of sobriety, the man who designed Moore’s prosthetic leg (who she endearingly refers to as her “leg man”) encouraged his client to train for the 1 1/2 mile swimming segment of the San Diego Triathlon Challenge, an event which serves as a fundraiser for the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF).
Moore, who had not been physically active since high school, took on the challenge, and trained for the event by swimming laps in the pool at the Salvation Army.
She also began jogging, sporting a prosthetic leg not intended for physical activity.
Tracey’s future husband, Robert Moore, who became acquainted with his future wife at 12-Step meetings, was driving past Tracey as she was jogging one day and was drawn to her doggedness.
“When I saw her running that day, there was no quit in her,” said Robert, a former power lifter and avid cyclist. “You don’t see that tenacity in people.”
The couple began dating and Robert offered to train Tracey for the swim. He also set a clear boundary between their personal relationship and their coach-athlete relationship.
“When we are at the gym, I am the coach,” he said. “You do what I say or we leave.”
Today, Tracey describes the coaching part of her husband with curse words.
“He is strict and forceful and he gets the job done,” Tracey said.
On Oct. 31, 2003, she completed the 1 1/2-mile swim.
“After I did it, I got the bug,” she said.
Tracey drew attention from the CAF, which gave her a $1,600 grant for a bicycle. She could now compete in all three segments of a triathlon-swimming, running and cycling.
The CAF also gave Tracey a $5,000 racing leg called a Cheetah (one of four legs Moore owns).
To date, Tracey has participated in 18 triathlons and is often the only amputee competing.
She says her greatest triumph was completing the 2006 Great Escape from Alcatraz, an adventure race starting with 1 1/2-mile swim in frigid water with a swift current, then a two-mile run followed by an 18-mile cycling segment and finally a 6 1/2 mile run over rugged terrain.
Tracey finished dead last, but received a medal for finishing first in the female physically challenged athlete division. She was told she was the only female amputee to have completed the 26-year history of the race.
“I cried,” said Moore, upon crossing the finish line with only Robert and her children waiting and cheering.
On Jan. 6, Moore completed the O.C. Half-marathon and is currently training for the Ironman in Hawaii, which takes place Oct. 11. She typically trains about two to three hours per day, four days per week. She swims about 150 laps in a pool and cycles about 45 miles at a clip. Those distances will be bumped up soon, says her husband, who still serves as Moore’s coach.
A LIFE WORTH LIVING
Tracey is now sober for five years, Robert for 10. They’ve been married since January, 2004.
Between them, the couple raises four teenage boys. They refer to their life as “Robert and Tracey’s excellent adventure.”
They attend 12-step meetings and run a ministry for recovering addicts and alcoholics on Friday evenings at a church in Anaheim.
Comparing her days as a “legless drunk” to her present life as a mother, wife, mentor and athlete, Moore is sometimes mystified. Her source of strength, however, is clear.
“Who would have thought I’d be thinking about doing the Ironman in Kona, Hawaii,” she said. For me, it was getting sober and getting God. After every race, I get to give the glory to God for letting me do it.
“I’ve heard of a lot of people who lose limbs who sit around feeling sorry for themselves,” Moore said. “I am doing more with one leg than I ever did with two.”
By LOU PONSI
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
http://www.ocregister.com/
Exercise and depression trial
Depression is the fourth most important cause of disability worldwide — and is expected to become the second most important by 2020.
Statistics suggest that as many as 1 in 3 of us might experience depressive symptoms during our lifetime and women are twice as likely to be affected as men. Depression is a major problem and treating depression a major drain on medical resources.
Now, new studies in the southwest of England are looking into different approaches to the treatment of depression — approaches that may have a significant impact on this debilitating illness.
Bringing together expertise in Psychiatry, Exercise Psychology, Health Economics and Primary Care, a collaboration of the University of Bristol, the University of Exeter and the Peninsula Medical School will conduct one of the largest studies in the world, into the use of exercise as a treatment for depression.
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