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type 1 diabetes 4-Jan-2020 At 2:50:52 PM Ni

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Hi Ben and other T1s
I wish to retract my previous recommendation of Diabetic Athlete's Handbook, having recently reviewed the performances of a cohort of athletes featured in the book 10 years down the track from the 2009 edition. If you are interested in long term athletic performance, I suggest you do a similar analysis yourself before deciding whether to follow the methods it describes.
There are many young T1s competing internationally, but very few over 55 in high level sport.
Despite being 59, surviving decades of T1DM, primary Addison's disease, multiple abdominal surgeries for bowel cancer, spinal surgery, and having screws in one shoulder and one ankle I have recently returned to climbing and this year led grade 17 sport and ticked several benchmark V3s on the Moonboard.
Despite asking on the T1 climbers' and mountaineers' forum as well as general T1 athlete FB groups, I have been unable to find any other T1 my age who is climbing or bouldering at that level.
If you do know of anyone please let me know.
cheers
Nick