The stories just keep coming about Team Type 1 and Team Type 2's performances at the Race Across America (RAAM). Here are a few of headlines surrounding the squads' stellar accomplishments:Lancaster (Ohio) Eagle Gazette:
Brooks joins Team Type 1, takes part in Race Across America
That Brooks needed to stay fit was a given. He was diagnosed as a child with Type I diabetes. He just wasn't sure how cycling would work out.
"I started thinking 'I'm not that great of a swimmer so I'll try cycling,' " Brooks said.
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Lowell (N.H.) Sun:
Pedal to the Mettle: Mark Suprenant and teammates
overcome stifling heat, bitter cold -- and diabetes --
to capture cross-country cycling race
More than 3,000 miles, across 14 states. Through the oven-blast heat of the Mojave Desert and the bone-numbing chill of Colorado's mountains.
As he pushed through the Race Across America -- one of the world's most challenging transcontinental bicycle races -- Mark Suprenant had more than a time trial to contend with. The 44-year-old father of two had to constantly monitor his blood-sugar levels.
A Type 1 diabetic, Suprenant proved last month that neither the road nor his disease could slow Team Type 1, which shattered records in the grueling annual race. The eight-member team, all diabetics, finished the course in five days, nine hours and five minutes, breaking the ultra marathon record
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Zanesville (Ohio) Times Recorder:
Local woman volunteers at race;
Helps take care of racing team promoting diabetes awareness
Karen Scheerer is used to doing laundry, cooking and cleaning for her family.It wasn't until she was actually on the road in an RV, traveling across the U.S., that she realized taking care of a team of eight bicyclists proved to be a little more difficult than her normal daily chores at home.
For one week in June she helped take care of the Team Type 1 Elite/RAAM team, a bicycle racing team that came together to promote diabetes awareness, as they competed in Race Across America.
As a volunteer, she did the team's laundry, cooked, cleaned, ran errands, played navigator across the U.S. and took pictures along the way.
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