Welcome to Runsweet.com

Helping people with Type 1 Diabetes to be winners!

Why "Runsweet"? This came from advice from a person with type 1 diabetes who tried to "run sweet" to avoid hypos. We know we can do better!

Thank you all for the great feedback about the site. We now boast the widest sports content for people with diabetes on the web. we are now getting more than 30000 visits per month and are top in searches on Google. You continue to test the limits of what is possible, and have submitted great new content. Keep visiting. If you want to post any content, mail it to us. Our forum is also very popular. We now also have a Facebook page.

News

Punching through the barrier T1DM

Muhammad Ali has made history after becoming the first boxer in the country with type one diabetes to be granted a professional licence by the British Boxing Board of Control.

Top Jockey WT1D gets his license

The jockey has been receiving specialist medical advice since he was diagnosed with type-1 diabetes in 2005, but he chose not to disclose the information to the BHA, believing it would have been "professional suicide".

Sir Steven Redgrave is our inspiration

It is not possible to overstate his contribution to improving the aspiration and well being of people with T1DM. He tells us- "When I was first diagnosed in 1997 my immediate reaction was that I would have to stop training – I’m glad to be able to say I was wrong – it is possible to train at a high level as a diabetic and succeed" Find out how he managed his diabetes to win his historic 5th Gold

Sports Weekend

Fantastic news, We will be holding another sport weekend in October, keep visit for the details of how to register

Top Education!

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Introduction to Runsweet

Find out why Runsweet was set up

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Diabetes and sports presentation

Dr Ian Gallen discusses how sports effect diabetes and control, and how to deal with this

view the talk

Chris Pennel and Ian Gallen

learn how to uses you Flash/CGM withsports

Listen to the presentation

He has done it again! Rod Riddell's Marathon des Sables adventure with T1 DM

Major new focus on pump treatment and how to use your pump with exercise. New focus on guidelines for safe exercise.

Can you help with research? We are recruiting for a study (ExTOD) on the effect of structured education on Exercise and Diabetes. See Reseach page if you can help

You can download the Jephcott Medal Symposium lecture with Sir Steven Redgrave, on the topic: "Olympic Diabetes: What have we learned over the last decade?". Slides from his talk can be downloaded in PowerPoint and PDF formats. We also have some images of the award in our Gallery section.

PowerPoint
Jephcott symposium
Jephcott symposium.pptx
Microsoft Power Point presentation [3.2 MB]

PDF
Jephcott symposium
Jephcott symposium.pdf
Adobe Acrobat document [2.5 MB]

Dr Gallen has also published a book aimed at medical professionals. More details can be found on our new Publications page.

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