Welcome to Runsweet.com
Helping diabetic athletes be winners!
Welcome to our completely revamped site. We're on a new platform allowing much more functionality, with video and audio clips, forum and chat room, and gallery presentations. New content is regularly added. 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 12000 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. 
Check out our new revamped forum! Our new forum comes packed with handy features which should make it a great communal area for our users to discuss common issues with each other.
We have new content from Professor Stephen Davis, see his video in the section on the physiology of sport, and John Richards, who has provided us with a fantastic video detailing how he has adapted to using an insulin pump in his cycling. We have new pieces in rowing by Kellw Whittaker and in trekking by Hannah Forbes.
Please visit our new shop for Runsweet t-shirts, mugs and badges!
Sir Steven Redgrave 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
Welcome to all of you from our sister organization, the Diabetes Exercise and Sports Association. World expert Stephen Davis talking about diabetes.
Research. We now have funding for research and need volunteers. The research will look at novel ways to promote better glucose control and to reduce hypos during and following exercise. The studies have full ethical approval, and will take place at Wycombe Hospital, High Wycombe. Would you like to help find out which strategies best support exercise in diabetes? We have ongoing studies on glucose control during sport, can you help? If you are interested, fill in the guestbook form and we will send you further details.
Do you have problems with your diabetes and sport? If so ask your G.P. or consultant to refer you to our (England's only) specialized diabetes and sport clinic.
New, He's done it again. Neil Hunter (of transatlantic rowing race) has climbed the 6194m Mt McKinley in Alaska. His story is now on the site.
Major new focus on pump treatment. Are you having difficulties in getting a pump. If so, look no further. How to use your pump with exercise. New focus on guidelines for safe exercise.