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Actually a great bunch of people (approximately 4,100) thought it was a great idea. Even groups of students from a dormitory nearby chose the run over the usual Friday bars at University.
Already an hour before the run, the Changing Diabetes Bus was filled with people. In contrast with yesterday, where I saw the bus full of dark suits, this was the day of running shoes and people wearing “run to change diabetes” t-shirts.
Before the 5 K Run started, I noticed several people digging into their packets of glucose in various tastes – neutral, orange, tropical. I believe I've eaten too much glucose in my lifetime when I know which taste of glucose the person standing next to me is having, by looking at the color of the paper! During the run, I heard some people discussing how the run would affect their blood sugars, since they did not have diabetes. They obviously had it tested before the run, and were now anxious to finish the race and get it retested. It seemed like a lot of other people had gotten the same idea.
At some point, I was thinking that the bus would fall over because everyone were standing in line for having the blood test done at one side of the bus. Of course, this didn't happen. It takes more than a group of runners to take down the Changing Diabetes Bus...
The winner of the run was Søren Lilleøre, a 26-year old Danish guy with type 1 diabetes. He'll be running the Berlin Marathon next weekend, so this was just gentle warm-up. He claims he could've run faster, if he needed to. I am very far from being competition to him, but I beat my own personal record on the distance tonight, which is good enough for me!
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