Welcome!

Welcome to JDRF Team Pingu!

This is YOUR forum; a place where you can 'meet' other runners on our team, interact with one another, swap training and fund-raising ideas and find links to articles and blogs.

Take the first step and start a thread; it can be on training, injury, hopes and fears, expectations, fund-raising ... it's your forum. The more people taking part the more valuable the resource becomes for others.

I've just posted a blog here on the RealBuzz site - click here to take a look
why not start your own training blog? It's a great way to attract interest from/ update sponsors and another way to reach out to other runners. 

I've also posted a link to my account of running the London marathon for JDRF in 2005. It's fairly long but some of the detail may be useful if you're running 26.2 miles for the first time.

Hi there sweder,

Your account of the 2005 marathon is a fab read and has given me a good taste of what to expect when I do my first marathon in April 2011.

This place, although it currently looks little used, I'm sure could be an invaluable tool for asking others their tips on all sorts of things.

Chris

Hi Chris,

Good to see you using this forum. We'll be encouraging more of our JDRF runners (in particular those with type 1) to use this forum over the coming months, which I hope everyone will find useful as they prepare for the marathon. In the meantime, the link below shares more stories of type 1 runners completing the London Marathon:

http://www.realbuzz.com/articles/running-a-marathon-with-diabetes/

And the following website is a useful tool for athletics with type 1 diabetes:

http://www.runsweet.com/

Many thanks,

Jon @ JDRF

Thanks Jon.