Training Camp: Getting To Know The Lifestyle

Team Type 1’s non-Type 1 diabetes riders are getting an idea of the lifestyle their fellow Type 1 teammates are living through the use of technology from sponsor Freestyle.

Friday morning, Elite RAAM Team Manager Bob Schrank (pictured at right) passed out Freestyle Flash blood glucose monitors to the team’s non-Type 1 riders and explained how to use them to check blood sugar levels. The process takes less than a minute.

Normal blood sugar readings are between 80 and 120. Team Type 1 Sport Director Ed Beamon, who rode the hour-long Figueroa mountain climb with the team, tested out at 50 when he reached the summit. Although that is a dangerously low level for someone who has Type 1 diabetes, Beamon does not have diabetes.

Read more about Type 1 diabetes at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation website or the comprehensive section on diabetes on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

Left: Moises Aldape studies the instructions for the Freestyle Flash
Right: Fabio Calabria (left) watches Aldape perform a finger stick.


Left: Valeriy Kobzarenko (center) checks his blood sugar reading.
Right: Even mechanics Chris Davidson (left) and Eric Jellum tested.