24 hours without stopping running through the cure of diabetes 1

Bizkaia diabetescero (delegation of the Diabetescero Foundation) and the Team One Diabetes Challenge team prepare a unique event, which will take place on October 27 and 28 of this year 2017 in Gorliz, whose only object is to raise the greatest number of fundsPossible economics that will be used for research that revolves around the search for a cure of type 1 diabetes.

The peculiarity of this challenge is that in 24 hours, a total of 20 athletes must travel, by relays, the distance that the Iberian Peninsula from Bilbao to the Cadiz town of Tarifa, a total of 1,184 km by the longest route for the longest route for the longest route by the route, on an athletics track.

In order to raise as many donations as possible they have opened an event on the website 'My grain of sand'.For each contribution of € 10 they will travel 1 km, for which they point out that with € 15 they can finance an hour of research.

It is a sports challenge never done to date, totally supportive, and in which all its participants will make a great effort to the only effects of achieving the maximum collection that helps them provide researchers with the necessary means so that a future not veryFar we will witness that long -awaited cure of type 1 diabetes.

Four teams, each of them composed of 5 athletes (all with type 1 diabetes), will be responsible for traveling this distance, all in 24 hours and by relays.There can only be 4 athletes running at the same time on the track and the relays will be passed every hour, each athlete must make a total of 60 kms.

Which means that they must maintain an average rhythm of 4:50 min the km during their relays to be ableThey will affect them (sleep, tiredness, glucose consumption due to physical exercise, exhaustion of glycogen reserves) and having to regulate the doses of insulin very well, so that the difficulties will be evident.

Team One leaves the link through that you can make your contributions.

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And they add that if you want you can also help participating as runners, they still lack five athletes that the only requirements they must meet to participate are to be able to perform the relays at a minimum rate of 4:50 MINS the KM, have type 1 diabetes andendure the 24 hours that the challenge lasts.

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