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Why this site exists
Athletes with a chronic condition mostly figure things out alone: the information is scattered, clinical, or sugar-coated. This site is the resource I wish I'd had: one athlete's story, training and health explained in plain language, backed by real data instead of vibes.
The athlete
Who I am on skates: the 100 m and 200 m sprint, what the events demand, the season plan, and the full journey from diagnosis to the start line.
Athletic profile →The health story
Type 1 diabetes and an underactive thyroid, explained in layers: simple first, sprint impact second, my own data third, deep physiology if you want it.
Health, out loud →The training
How sprint training actually works: energy systems, load, intensity and recovery, and what changes when every session is also a glucose problem to solve.
Training for seconds →The data
Live numbers straight from my own platform: resting heart rate, sleep, training volume and glucose time-in-range, published with context, even when they're not pretty.
Open dashboard →The one-minute version
The story so far
In 2014, glandular fever knocked me out of training for months: the first lesson in respecting recovery. In October 2018 came the big one: I was rushed to hospital in ketoacidosis and diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. From that day, every training session has also been a blood-glucose problem to solve.
Instead of scaling back, I engineered my way forward. In 2023 I moved to a DIY closed loop: a glucose sensor, my phone and an algorithm dosing insulin around training and sleep. In late 2025, after years of quietly elevated thyroid values, treatment finally got my thyroid back in range, and energy, recovery and glucose stability all turned a corner.
Now I'm racing a fully planned sprint season, including the national championship on the piste, while a self-built platform ties together my glucose, sleep, heart-rate and training data and helps me decide when to push and when to back off. Everything I learn lands here.
Journal
What the data is teaching me
Open, data-driven notes from training and living with Type 1, published when they're solid enough to share.
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