Diabetes

…And a follow up article.

As mentioned in my last post, a friend of mine publishes our local magazine “Tickhill Today“. I wrote a follow up to the article from last month, that will appear in the next issue, and have published it here too. … Continue reading →

London Marathon

Well I did it… Just! I managed to get round in just over 5 and a half hours – five hours 40 minutes to be precise! At about 21 miles, the legs gave up, so the last 5 or so … Continue reading →

Not good news…

The legs gone again! My left calf to be specific. I did something to it the day I did my 20 mile run but that was three weeks ago and I thought I’d rested enough. With one week to go … Continue reading →

Onto the next challenge…. or two!

No sooner have I bored you senseless with my tales of doing the London Triathlon than its time to tell you about my next set of challenges! The most recent Triathlon in London was my longest to date, and I … Continue reading →

Curesam Rocks

Just a quick update on the fund raising we did for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). As you’ll know because you’ll have read my War & Peace (I mean blog about the London Triathlon), I ran the London Triathlon … Continue reading →

Today is World Diabetes Day

Although, if we had a cure for Type 1 Diabetes, it wouldn’t need to be….

Time to taper and think of my goal…

It’s the Monday before the Sunday of the race. With only 6 days to go, all the training is done. The next few days are just for tapering down to the race. I’m pretty pleased with how the training has … Continue reading →

BBC Online

After the Diabetes Awarness video came out last week, amongst others, it was noticed by the BBC, who wanted to do an article about it and expand the back story. Diabetes UK passed on my details and so last Friday … Continue reading →

Blinded by the lights, camera, action!

The video has been up a few days now and a lot of people had have chance to see it on Youtube. (At the time of writing over 14,000 people). I don’t know how many people were expected to view … Continue reading →

Don’t do as we did…

Now you’ve all had a chance to see the DiabetesUK & JDRF UK Symptoms awareness video, I thought I’d share what happened to Sam in the months leading up to his diagnosis. I wanted to wait until the video was … Continue reading →