Active Lifestyle
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Catching Up with NASCAR Driver Ryan Reed
Ryan shares what it was like to be out of the driver's seat and making changes to his diabetes management by starting on his first insulin pump.
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Making Lemonade from Lemons
For our Tandem Blog series, Making Lemonade from Lemons, we’ll profile people with diabetes (PWD) who’ve squeezed lemons from the diagnosis of diabetes and made lemonade - they exemplify this expression. This one features a family affair! Sean Oser, a family medicine physician and diabetes researcher has had type 1 diabetes (T1D) for over 30 years. Sean’s daughter, Jessica, a fraternal twin, now 17, has had T1D for over 10 years.
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Runner with Type 1 Diabetes Aims to Cross America on Foot in Record Time Using Automated Insulin Delivery Insulin Pump from Tandem Diabetes Care
We are pleased to share that our t:slim X2™ insulin pump with Basal-IQ® technology will be used by long-distance runner Don Muchow on his #T1Determined Type 1 Diabetes Run Across America. Starting February 1, 2020, Muchow will attempt to become the fastest person with type 1 diabetes ever to run across the Continental United States.
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Running With Diabetes: Don Muchow Runs Across Texas in Fastest Known Time
Don Muchow started running in 2004 after a laser treatment for diabetes-related retinopathy. Running was a cheap way to start being active. Once he got going, he needed a community of other people with type 1 diabetes to learn from and exchange ideas about exercise. He started the Diabetes & Exercise Alliance. In March 2019, with support from that community and his wife, Leslie, Don ran across Texas -- 850 miles in 27 days. He set a FKT by 2.5 days.
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Alex Martin - Obstacle course racing with type 1 diabetes
Alex Martin is an amateur obstacle course racer and founder of the College Diabetes Network (CDN) chapter at Mercyhurst University. We caught up with her at the 2018 CDN Retreat in Bridgton, Maine, about her racing.
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#tsliminthewild with ice skater Chloe Glabach
Chloe was an ice skater before she began living with diabetes. And even though all she could do was...
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