Inspiration (and its result)

70.3 miles! A team of 20 women with diabetes (like me!) swam, biked and ran 70.3 miles as a team.

Team WILD - Women Inspiring Life with Diabetes - completed the Austin Longhorn Triathlon. It's almost unbelievable, but it's true and so awesome. You can see their blog, though, and you'll know it's for real. Team WILD coordinated women with diabetes, doctors, diabetes educators, dietitians and trainers to make this enormous feat and all the training needed for it workable with diabetes.

Here's a wonderful radio piece about Team WILD. It made me cry.

I'm inspired now to do something challenging for me - a half-marathon (the distance Jennifer ran - but she also biked and swam) in January as part of a Winter Warriors training program. I'm so excited I can do this - yay! I'm ready to bundle up and rock out. And I know I can do it.

Sorry to be so very cheesy, but I'm feeling warm and fuzzy about this. Go diabetes, go me!