Epic adventures test the limits of human endurance — especially when you figure type 1 diabetes into the mix. Regardless of the size of the challenge, what matters more than anything is what you do when things go wrong. Because they will.

UPDATE: In November 2018, I switched from my almost-new Medtronic 670g to the Tandem t:slim X2 and Dexcom package, at my own expense. * * * * * * * * * My original Medtronic 670G review: Back in March 2018, after the announcement that Animas would be shutting its doors, I had to make…

This isn’t a what-do-do article. It’s more of a what-I-wish-someone-had-told-me article that I’d write to my newly-diagnosed self in the past. As such, it’s not intended as medical advice. Now that that’s out of the way, here’s what I’d tell me:

Since I completed the 223-mile Capital to Coast Relay solo run, I’ve been asked more than once: “How do you do it?” The answer is: run 1 mile 223 times in a row.  The secret lies not in the distance, but in what you learn from each monotonous mile.

I’ve been a type 1 diabetic since May of 1972, and was told by my elementary school teachers that I didn’t have to go to gym class. I followed that “sage advice” until 2004, when I began to have complications. Since then, I’ve been making up for lost time. In the last 12 months I’ve age-grouped…

I’ve been meaning for a while to write about my experiences as an ultra endurance athlete regarding the peculiar interaction of physical stress and Type 1 diabetes. Usually you’d expect to be insulin-sensitive after a long endurance workout, right? But the physical stress of ultra running is weird. It has a completely different, polar opposite…