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Audax
Images by John Ewing
An Audax is an audacious
bike ride. This does not necessarily mean extreme,
but it does mean that a certain level of performance is
necessary. Audax clubs typically organize group
outings of 100, 200, 300 and anything up to 600
kilometres, and the ultimate Audax is the great 1200-km
run from Paris to Brest and back.
John
Ewing is a software engineer in his mid-fifties.
Diagnosed with diabetes in the early 1990s, he took up
road cycling in 1997 as a means of keeping fit. This is the story of his first attempt at a
200-km loop with an Audax club from Mulhouse, Alsace -
where the Peugeots are built - down into the Swiss Jura
and back.
Through
the Looking Glass by Elizabeth Winder
A
description of an
event organised by Oxford Survivors, a group of
Oxfordshire people who have used mental health services.
Oxford Survivors work for the empowerment of
users/survivors in relation to mental health services
and the rest of society, seeking to change the attitudes
of professionals as well as public and users/survivors
themselves.
Both
this fair and the one held eighteen months earlier have
been survivor initiatives, with professionals pulled in
by survivors rather than leading the planning.
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