Well that was a week to remember.

wav1

As must of you know my son who has type 1 Diabetis was racing and training with Team Novo Nordisk in the States during the summer.Well as a further extension to things he was named on the Novo Nordisk team for last weeks jun tour of Wales.The manager was flying in to Bristol airport as were the other 3 riders.As my lad was going over from here the team asked if i would go over and do support vehicle for them and bring a mechanic with me.All sorted we set off on Wed morning last week and hit south wales at 6ish in the evening.Step 1 then was on Wed night we collected manager from Bristol airport.Thursday then seen 3 x pick ups from Bristol with 3 riders arriving from GB,Croatia,and USA.Friday the guys got out for a spin to loosen the legs and we started preparing for race on Sat.1000km on the car at this stage.Stage 1 on Sat was a TT up a mountain which went off fine.Stage 2 on Sat afternoon was an 85 km loop in the valleys.Disaster struck half way.Clutch went in the car.Sitting there for hours talking to the sheep etc,my commttment as a volunteer to cycling was seriously under threat.Bank holiday weekend over there,so to make a long story more bearable got car back at 7 on Tues evening and got back in to Dulin this morning at 6am.Hired vans over there,and flew my son and mechanic home from Cardiff on Mon night.Race though went well and by concensus was as hard as most A1/A2 races here.My son is wanted in the States by them again for next year so i suppose something good came out of the weekend.Anyway home now and the pocket a whole lot lighter after the whole escapade,but as 10CC say''the things we do for love''

bcmf

Ya didnt bring that Renault over with ya...For the love of god say it was something else......errr great to hear the young fella is doing so well. Nice one

wav1

bcmf wrote: »

Ya didnt bring that Renault over with ya...For the love of god say it was something else......errr great to hear the young fella is doing so well. Nice one

Was something else...Could have done with the old renault

Welshkev

Hi,

Great to hear that (the racing, not the breakdown!), and best of luck to your son. I saw there was another Irish rider (sorry, his name escapes me now) riding for Novo Nordisk over in the States last week. I've been following team Novo for a while now being a type 1 diabetic myself.

If you don't mind me hijacking this thread (I can message you if that's easier), would your son, or even the team, have any advice on riding with diabetes? There's surprisingly little advice out there other than bog standard/common sense stuff. I've gotten in to it pretty big the last year or so, and am hoping to start racing next year (albeit local stuff), but the diabetic-side of it is making me a bit anxious, especially getting hypo's etc. I'm only just getting to grips with managing it on 4 - 6 hour rides now, and bloods can be anything from too low to way too high, despite doing relatively the same routine each time.

Cheers

Kev

wav1

Kevinleeowen wrote: »

Hi,

Great to hear that (the racing, not the breakdown!), and best of luck to your son. I saw there was another Irish rider (sorry, his name escapes me now) riding for Novo Nordisk over in the States last week. I've been following team Novo for a while now being a type 1 diabetic myself.

If you don't mind me hijacking this thread (I can message you if that's easier), would your son, or even the team, have any advice on riding with diabetes? There's surprisingly little advice out there other than bog standard/common sense stuff. I've gotten in to it pretty big the last year or so, and am hoping to start racing next year (albeit local stuff), but the diabetic-side of it is making me a bit anxious, especially getting hypo's etc. I'm only just getting to grips with managing it on 4 - 6 hour rides now, and bloods can be anything from too low to way too high, despite doing relatively the same routine each time.

Cheers

Kev

You can hijack my thread anytime Kev.The guy you refer to is Stephen Clancy who rides with the Novo Nordisk Pro team.My lad was over with them in Georgia for about a month in June,training,racing,etc,but most of all getting educated re diet and most of all the use of insulin relative to the racing.Huge issue was that before he went over there he used to reduce his insulin intake during races by about 40%.Now he mostly has it recuced by 100% during races as the effort is bringing down the blood sugar levels naturally.So far its been working out well for him with his levels after most races pretty good.With them its all about creating awareness and showing that it can be done with diabetis,rather than getting results which takes the pressure off as well.But these junior lads have showed that they can get the results as well.TBH he learned more in the States in 3 weeks than he could have learned here in a lifetime.Levels are taken before and after each stage with them and sent back to HQ for the experts for analysis.The info then comes back with suggestions on ''tweaking'' insulin for the next day.TBH you couldn't buy this back up and expertise.Its made him a new man.Whilst he's no world beater by any means his improvement is actually quite unbelievable in about 3 months.PM me anytime.

doozerie

wav1 wrote:

Disaster struck half way.Clutch went in the car.Sitting there for hours talking to the sheep etc,my commttment as a volunteer to cycling was seriously under threat.

I'm disappointed to hear that you didn't do a quick bodge job to convert the car to single speed* and get going again.

*My extremely limited knowledge of cars is heavily influenced by my knowledge of bicycles!

Oldlegs

doozerie wrote: »

*My extremely limited knowledge of cars is heavily influenced by my knowledge of bicycles!

If it can be done to a bike, surely it can be done to a car. They are both vehicles on the road and pay road tax :eek: Oh - wrong thread :P

Zyzz

Were you wearing a helmet in the car? If not that's why you broke down! :pac: