Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
IT consultant Shahzad Ahmed knew that he had hit a low when, during a family outing on the Corniche three years ago, he could not even catch up with his five-year-old daughter Aisha.
The Pakistani-Canadian weighed 114 kilograms, had suffered from high blood pressure for more than a decade and was at serious risk of developing diabetes.
“I couldn’t even run 100 steps and that made me realise that I needed to take charge of matters,” said Mr Ahmed, 46.
So he decided to turn his life around and take up regular exercise. Now he is well on the way to getting even fitter by taking on the challenge of a lifetime – a 2,300km bike ride through two of Europe’s highest mountain ranges.
The mHealth Grand Tour event, which started on Sunday, will take him on a 15-day ride starting in Vienna in Austria, through the Alps and Pyrenees, and on to Barcelona in Spain.
http://www.thenational.ae/uae/healt...tour-of-europe-to-raise-awareness-of-diabetes
The Pakistani-Canadian weighed 114 kilograms, had suffered from high blood pressure for more than a decade and was at serious risk of developing diabetes.
“I couldn’t even run 100 steps and that made me realise that I needed to take charge of matters,” said Mr Ahmed, 46.
So he decided to turn his life around and take up regular exercise. Now he is well on the way to getting even fitter by taking on the challenge of a lifetime – a 2,300km bike ride through two of Europe’s highest mountain ranges.
The mHealth Grand Tour event, which started on Sunday, will take him on a 15-day ride starting in Vienna in Austria, through the Alps and Pyrenees, and on to Barcelona in Spain.
http://www.thenational.ae/uae/healt...tour-of-europe-to-raise-awareness-of-diabetes