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Cycling and diabetes tips from Team Novo Nordisk

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Horsing around at Stage 6 of the Tour of Poland today as an escaped horse joined the peloton. The poor thing still had it's tether attached and almost came a cropper on a bend and could have taken out two TNN riders. It's the final stage of the race tomorrow.

http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/watch-tiny-horse-makes-way-tour-poland-peloton-345217

Well done to this young man from Japan, a T1 who cycled an amazing 900km with his Dad over 5 days from Hiroshima to Tokyo in very hot conditions to encourage other children with diabetes and improve his own diabetes management. Proof that T1 doesn't and shouldn't stop you from doing whatever you want to do. Great work Manato. 🙂

http://www.teamnovonordisk.com/13-year-old-cycles-900km-diabetes-awareness/
 
Global healthcare company Novo Nordisk, renewed its partnership with Team Novo Nordisk for an additional two years, extending the company’s commitment to the world’s first all-diabetes professional cycling team to a total of seven years.

In December 2012, Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk partnered with the professional cycling team Team Type 1 to create Team Novo Nordisk based on the shared goals to inspire, educate and empower people around the world affected by diabetes.

“We are thankful to Novo Nordisk for this ongoing opportunity and look forward to the future. Since our initial meetings with Novo Nordisk, we’ve approached this project with a long-term mindset because we must identify and develop athletes with type 1 diabetes to their fullest,” said Phil Southerland, co-founder & CEO of Team Novo Nordisk.

https://www.teamnovonordisk.com/novo-nordisk-2018-renewal-announcement/

Good news for the team with the guaranteed sponsorship until 2019. Hopefully on course to be the first professional cycling team composed entirely of Type 1 diabetics to be in the TdF in 2021.
 
Did you say the Japanese are horsing about in the Tour of Poland Matt 🙄:D. Good stuff Matt (a bit mad & mixed up) :D
 
Here's a couple of videos of Chris Williams from TNN showing his CGM data from the recent Dubia Tour. They're using mg/dl but here's a conversion chart.

http://www.joslin.org/info/conversion_table_for_blood_glucose_monitoring.html

On the second video from Stage 4 the daily profiles at the bottom of the graph seem to show he was hypo most of the night before that days stage. He seems to be on the higher side of things for most of the race.


 
Matt - and anyone else who cycles - did you see Trust Me I'm a Doctor tonight where they showed taking one's main exercise from cycling with not a great deal else actually reduces bone strength by A Lot.

We apparently need to put stress on the bones often enough to 'shock' them into making new cells, so that was a surprise. Cricket was the best of the three things they tested, with gymnastics not far behind cricket - then a helluva gap down to cycling. So normal results increased by 15+% for g and c, and reduced by 15+% for c. Which makes cyclists likely to have a third less bone strength than the other two.
 
the upside is cycling is not an impact activity, a lot of other fitness keen people, runners for example very often take up cycling. I've been cycling for 36years ish I've had my bone density tested a few years back and surprisingly scored very high for strength even though I am small and very thin allround.
 
Well men's does not naturally start to deteriorate until they are older than women, because the age at menopause is so variable. I spose if you have a naturally high testosterone level regardless of age, then your bone density might not suffer - the same as with ladies it's lack of oestrogen that starts the downhill slide.
 
trophywench said:
Matt - and anyone else who cycles - did you see Trust Me I'm a Doctor tonight where they showed taking one's main exercise from cycling with not a great deal else actually reduces bone strength by A Lot.

We apparently need to put stress on the bones often enough to 'shock' them into making new cells, so that was a surprise. Cricket was the best of the three things they tested, with gymnastics not far behind cricket - then a helluva gap down to cycling. So normal results increased by 15+% for g and c, and reduced by 15+% for c. Which makes cyclists likely to have a third less bone strength than the other two.
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No didn't see the programme. No idea of my bone strength and never even considered it. Until something happens or I'm told otherwise I'll just carry on as before. :D
 
TNN ride again this Saturday 17th in the Milan-San Remo - La Classica Primavera (Spring Classic) the first 'Monument' race of the season and the longest one day race in cycling at 291km (180 miles) . They've received a wildcard invite as the race is open to World Tour teams. Should be on Eurosport. Good luck to them. 🙂

https://www.teamnovonordisk.com/2018-milan-san-remo-preview/

It's not just about racing as the mission is to inspire, educate and empower those affected by diabetes.

These are the Team Type 1 student athlete global ambassadors.

https://www.teamnovonordisk.com/team-type-1-global-ambassadors/
 
Lots of tv time for TNN. Good to see, hopefully they will get more widcards.. would love to see them at Paris-Roubaix.
 
christophe said:
Lots of tv time for TNN. Good to see, hopefully they will get more widcards.. would love to see them at Paris-Roubaix.
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That was brilliant. Well done to Charles Planet for getting in and staying in the 9 man breakaway - over 250kms out at the front. Well done to the rest of the team as all 7 riders finished. Changeable conditions in Italy as they started in the rain in Milano and finished in the sun at San Remo. The tactic seems to be to get someone in the breakaway and get maximum TV publicity for the team and the message. I lost my Eurosport stream and had to watch it with Italian commentary and then French! Being a Pro Conti team they get a few wildcards to some of the World Tour races. The main aim at the moment is to compete at the 2021 TdF with that year being the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin. They have competed in the Tour of Britain a couple of times - 2014 and 2015.
 
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