{"id":502541,"date":"2026-10-20T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502541\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:50:10","slug":"veterans-and-first-responders-bike-400-miles-along-california-coast-for-ptsd-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502541\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans and first responders bike 400 miles along California coast for PTSD recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksbw.com\/news-team\/c672e131-0cf6-420f-86bb-9600babd4adc\" aria-label=\"Ricardo Tovar profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792525810_118_c672e131-0cf6-420f-86bb-9600babd4adc_1714417997.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Ricardo Tovar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>SANTA CRUZ, Calif. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">More than 50 veterans and first responders are biking 400 miles down the California coast to support recovery from PTSD and traumatic brain injuries.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The event, called the &#8220;Project Hero Ride,&#8221; was founded in 2008. The California ride began yesterday in Santa Cruz, and today, participants stopped at the Carmel River Inn, where Monterey Elks members welcomed them with refreshments and encouragement.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">&#8220;Project Hero, what we do is we get veterans, first responders, and we get them on bikes, and for many veterans that have been to war and come back, if they&#8217;re dealing with any kind of mental health issues, PTSD, if they&#8217;re on medication, we find that this is a rehabilitation ride. So we get them on a bicycle and ride for a week together, and it changes their life,&#8221; said John, a Marine Corps veteran who flew in from Minnesota for the ride.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">John said he has been participating in the Project Hero Ride for about 10 years.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The cyclists will continue their coastal journey tomorrow, traveling from Carmel to San Simeon, and after a few more legs, they will finish in San Diego County.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">So far, the group has raised over $22,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA CRUZ, Calif. \u2014 More than 50 veterans and first responders are biking 400 miles down the California&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,1595,9,8,194543,194541,39406,855,2663,194544,14756,194542,194540,1498,2335,158266,7780,56829],"class_list":["post-502541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-coast","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-ride","tag-first-responder-bike","tag-john","tag-ksbw","tag-mile","tag-monterey-elks-member","tag-participant","tag-project-hero-ride","tag-ptsd-recovery","tag-santa-cruz","tag-today","tag-traumatic-brain-injury","tag-veteran","tag-yesterday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}