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CONGRATULATIONS TO TEAM TYPE 1- MONITORED BY FREESTYLE, who not only won the Corporate Division, they also earned the distinction of the fastest team in RAAM 2007.

Read more about Team Type 1's story.

Riding with Team Type 1, Monique will depart the coast of San Diego on June 12 and alongside seven other type one diabetics, will ride continuously until they reach their destination of Atlantic City, some 4,900km away.

Team Type 1 aims for RAAM are threefold: to complete the challenge as the fastest team, promote awareness of the importance of good diabetes management, and raise money towards finding a cure for diabetes.

To support their fundraising goals, donate here.

With four new riders and two new support crew, all minus working pancreas' and with little idea of their riding background, we weren't so sure how the team would fare this year.  The current riding form and general fitness of our six returning riders from previous years was also a bit of an unknown.  Enter the headwind from our start town in Echuca, consisting of a lovely south westerly wind which hit us head-on as we departed town.  Would we survive the next 420km to Hamilton?

WOW! What a weekend. Do I start at the finish or at the beginning? I’ve just come from watching stage 5 of the Tour Down Under, and seeing Robbie McEwan win the final sprint to the line – Exhilaration & adrenaline to the max! I LOVE watching racing of any kind, I’m an armchair competitor and delight in trying to outguess the participants strategies, before they even know they’re doing it. But who am I kidding?