Recovery - India Landy

In this short film, Fairlight team rider India Landy talks about how ultra-distance cycling helped her to heal and recover. Beautifully honest and insightful and highlights, how on some level, cycling is medicine for all of us; mindfulness, routine, ups and downs, highs and lows, escapism.

Beautifully captured by @lloydjwright

[simonthomson]

What a lovely film. Inspiring. Thanks 👍

[richardrr]

Good stuff.... That said cycling along with running/distance running generally I would regard as a toxic, dangerous sport and environment for those with restrictive eating disorders who are wishing or trying to recover from a restrictive eating disorder - there is an unhealthy focus on being ultra lean and losing weight, there appears to be a mantra of if I cycle x distance I can eat this as opposed to eating to cycle versus cycling before I can give myself permission to eat. Anorexia hit our family like a tornado turning our life and our daughters life upside down, it took our daughter 3 years of hell to beat the dangerous illness including being detained under the mental health act and nearly dying twice due to her internal organs starting to fail, for her exercise would be a poison and all it would do would be to maintain restrictive eating behaviour patterns, essentially there are three outcomes for those with restrictive eating disorders, you recover fully, you recover so you do not require inpatient medical but you maintain restrictive eating behaviours so called unicorn recovery and restrictive eating behaviours hidden by such things as cycling etc, or sadly you die, whilst my daughter was an impatient two young people died - restrictive eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses however because they are not well understood generally and by the medical profession and often just seen as faddy eating. Anyway I hope life brings you much joy and keeps you out of the dark place that is a restrictive eating disorder.