It's just one more sleep until the start of the Black Dog Ride, a ride to Alice Springs to help raise awareness of depression and prevention of suicide.
While quite a few riders will go all the way to the red centre my ride will only take me as far as Swan Hill on the Victoria-New South Wales border, yet the message and the aim will still be the same.
The Black Dog Ride was started in 2009 by Steven Andrews who sadly lost his mother to suicide brought on by depression.
In Australia, each year around 1,000,000 adults and 100,000 young people live with depression. More than 50% will not seek treatment. The BDR is all about helping people understand and cope with this disease.
Join me and the other riders on our journey even if just a short one, I'll be blogging our adventures over the next few days. You can also keep up to date with the ride on Channel 9, as reporter Simon Bouda will also do the entire journey and Morning Show presenter Steve Jacobs will also do his weather reports a few days along the ride.
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