Diabetic And Determined : New York TImes

January 2008

...His interest comes from personal experience: When he was told he had Type 1 seven years ago, he had nowhere to turn. Mr. Weingard was an avid exerciser who had completed an Ironman, but his doctor discouraged him from doing another, he said.

Mr. Weingard, now 43, found that unacceptable. He would continue to be active, he decided, but he would be meticulous about it. He spent a year training for his first postdiagnosis Ironman, simulating the experience down to the time the gun would flare at the starting line, then compiled the information in a 50-page document.

"I figured out what it’s like to go in the pool at exactly the time the race would start, to test myself during the swim, then to come out and see how much insulin I needed to take," he said. "I learned what my routine would be every single hour."...