Triathlete magazine article (by Susan Lacke)
https://www.triathlete.com/culture/people/tim-davis-addict-to-avid-triathlete/
Health Coach Radio interview (hosted by Laura Rupsis & Erin Power)
https://www.primalhealthcoach.com/breaking-stigmas-and-channeling-addiction-for-good-tim-davis/
Stories of Hope blog (by David Susman, Clinical Psychologist PhD)
http://davidsusman.com/2020/08/06/we-must-take-care-of-the-body-mind-spirit/
Mile After Mile podcast with host Amy Stone
Crazy! Right? podcast (hosted by Dave Asher)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crazy-right-with-dave-asher/id1390678234?i=1000490138352
Wake up Show on KFI AM640 with Jennifer Jones Lee
Run the Riot podcast interview by David Theriot
https://soundcloud.com/runtheriot/tim-davis-tripolar-ultrarunner
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https://www.audible.com/pd/Tripolar-Audiobook/B08JGXJ1R9?asin=B08JGXJ1R9
(A) Beginning of 2009 at 250 lbs
(B) Setting Ironman PR in 2011
(C) 100 mile running in 2014
I wasn't always an active healthy person. I had a long history battling drug addiction and alcoholism, and I suffer from bipolar disorder, coupled with being very overweight and not very active. After several rehabs, I finally got sober, but then I gained over 70 pounds in my first year of getting sober from drugs and alcohol. On Dec. 31st, 2008, I stepped on the scale and weighed over 250 lbs at only 5 ft, 8 inches tall - this was almost all excess fat and not muscle. My doctor told me that I was pre-diabetic and might not make it to 50 years old at the rate I was going. That was my wake up call. I made a decision to stop eating seconds, quit smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, and to exercise for at least 1 hour everyday. I vowed to stop being a full-time couch potato, and I wouldn't allow myself to lay on the couch and watch TV or play video games, unless I had exercised for at least an hour already that day. I re-joined my local gym. Then lost over 60 lbs in under 6 months, and then I signed up for a half ironman triathlon. Once I saw what I could do with a stronger, fitter body, I was hooked. After successfully completing that half-ironman, I started doing full ironman triathlons every year for several years until I moved up to ultra endurance racing events that are even longer and more grueling than ironman triathlons. I have scaled all of the tallest mountains in and around southern California, as going to the summit of Mt. Whitney - the highest peak in the 48 contiguous states. I have gone in caves and up canyons. My passion for fitness is based on a passion for living life to its fullest, and it has helped and continues to help me manage my recovery from drug addiction and bipolar disorder.
Here's a list of helpful mental health resouces.
Every day, meet yourself where you are. My stories and tips might not be for where you are, but you can adapt them to your own adventure. What challenges you today? Let's face those challenges together as a team. Send me a message about what fitness challenges you are overcoming in your active life. I might just feature your story in an upcoming blog post.
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