#569 I Want To Ride My Bicycle

November 1, 2021Scott Benner

I want to ride my bike. Corey rides a lot of bicycles.

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Scott Benner 0:00
Hello friends, and welcome to episode 569 of the Juicebox Podcast

on today's show I'll be speaking with Corey, he's an adult living with type one diabetes who enjoys riding bicycles, both indoors and outdoors. We're going to be talking about that and a lot more. I for one can't wait to find out how he doesn't run to a walk. I mean, how do you ride a bike inside? How do you stop yourself from seeing the Queen song bicycle every time somebody says bicycle

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Corey 2:01
Thanks for having me on Scott. My name is Cory Weibel. I'm a type one diabetic have been since since 1997. I'm really just kind of a triathlete. I have competed in multiple Iron Man's, you know, 70 point threes a lot of different triathlons. And, you know, with the pandemic, you know, we were inside, I really haven't been out much I haven't raced in about a year and a half and, you know, just stumbled on, you know, this team type one on Swift. And it's really become kind of my home away from home, you know, being being able to ride indoors on the trainer and still train for races that I hope happened in 2021. But really, it's just become a community of people that are are kinda like family now, you know, that we ride, you know, sometimes four or five days a week with and race. I raced twice a week, usually every week. So it's, you know, it's it's become like a family like atmosphere, based out of Facebook and a virtual world where my avatar? Hopefully it looks something like me.

Scott Benner 3:08
You've said a number of things that have made me think of a lot of questions. So that's good. So you've had type one for almost a quarter of a century. Yeah. Okay. And I'm interested in how long you've been not just racing on bikes, but doing triathlons. Specifically, how old are you two?

Corey 3:26
I'm 35. About to be 36.

Scott Benner 3:29
Oh, you were diagnosed when you were like five, six years old?

Corey 3:32
I was junior high school. Excuse

Scott Benner 3:34
me. Yeah, by my math, it's terrible. But junior high. So you've lived through it. Like you've come up through a couple of different segments of life with type one. But when did you start doing triathlons.

Corey 3:48
So I moved back. So I'm from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I moved away after college. And I was just looking, I had gained some weight. And I was up to as much as 250 255 pounds. And I'm like, I gotta figure something out. Like because

Scott Benner 4:03
you're not my number. You talk. What's that? You're because you're not seven feet tall?

Corey 4:07
Yeah, so I'm six feet like I'm an average dude. I mean, my shoulders are built. I have pretty wide shoulders. So I hold weight pretty well. But like, in my mind, I knew like, I can't live like this. You

Scott Benner 4:19
can I can. I

can. I don't know. I mean, we'll talk. I've interesting questions about that. I think we'll see if everyone else thinks they're interesting. 50 to 55 on a six foot frame. When did you start thinking oh, cuz I know what you mean about being kind of broader in some places and you feel like you carry weight better and so it gives you that false sense of you're okay, like, what way do you start thinking like, This is tip in the wrong way for me?

Corey 4:45
Well, I started just getting into running and I would my gym. I lived in Wisconsin at the time and the gym I lived at was, you know, a half mile down the road so I could run there, do my workout run back home after work. And I just started weighing myself like once or twice a week, and I got on there. And I was like, man, like, this is a lot more than I thought. And when I moved to Wisconsin, I kinda, you know, I had to find an apartment to live in. So, you know, for like, a month, a month and a half, it was, hey, you know, you don't have a kitchen. It's it's fast food. And then I worked in college athletics. So I was I was working 7080 hours a week, some week, I was traveling a lot. And when you're traveling, you know, you stop at McDonald's, and you eat. And so I had put on the way and then there was just that when I finally got settled down, and, you know, stepped on the scale. I'm like, Man, this is this is too much because I played college baseball on a division to school. And I was never a light person. But you know, I played around 200. So 200 to 215. And I just knew that, you know, being up that high, even though my a one C was pretty decent. It was something that obviously wasn't going to be sustainable.

Scott Benner 6:09
Were you a first baseman,

Corey 6:11
I was a catcher.

Scott Benner 6:12
Your catcher was gonna be my next question. Interesting. Okay. So when you were on the road working in athletics, you were recruiting, I imagine?

Corey 6:21
No, so I worked as a sports information director or director of media and information for a division three conference. So I would go to like all the conference championships handle all the media for that stuff. So yeah, it was going from where I lived in Wisconsin, sometimes to Iowa or Illinois, and then traveling again in the same weekend, so it was a lot of a lot of car hours.

Scott Benner 6:46
It's terrible. Yeah, it

Corey 6:48
was awful.

Scott Benner 6:49
It's it's always interesting to me that the people who are sometimes around very athletic people, because of the effort they're putting into it, but not doing the movements that the the people that are around us that they their their health does suffer for that they're very sedentary, you know, watching other people be athletic. I guess it's a Yeah, it's a weird, it's weird to be that close to it and not involved in it.

Corey 7:12
Yeah, exactly.

Scott Benner 7:13
So So you see, you're running your run off to the gym, you're working out you're losing weight, I imagine. And this This, to me is very interesting, because I'm assuming this leads into doing triathlon somehow you meet some lunatics in a gym, and they're like, You know what we do? And you're like, I'll do that was it?

Corey 7:31
Actually, it's really weird because I, I don't have any like real life friends that do this. I had just the the school that I worked out of, it's called Ripon College. They had a lot. They had like a bike share program. And I was like, Oh, that's interesting. And actually, a friend of a friend was doing an Ironman, when I was moving back home. And I'm like, Hey, like, that looks interesting. Because to be honest, at the time, like, I'm a decent swimmer. But it wasn't something I was passionate about. I'm an okay runner, but it's not something I'm passionate about. And at the time, like riding bikes is okay. But it wasn't something I was passionate about. So, in my mind, I thought, hey, like, I can switch things up through this one event, and not be totally bored by everything. So that's kind of the way I got into it. And the friend of a friend that did an Ironman, he kind of, you know, that motivated me to get into it. He didn't continue to do it. So, you know, once I started, I just kind of fell in love with the competition portion of it. You know, at Seton Hill, I played baseball in college and, and we were really good. We actually went, went to the World Series one year, you know, I just needed that itch to be scratched. And I'm a pretty self motivated person. So doing all of this by myself really wasn't a big deal. So it just kind of was like a perfect storm of everything that came together

Scott Benner 9:05
to do you kind of found a way to reignite your competitive. Yeah, heart of Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Did you ever hear you ever hear Mike Tyson tell that story about how he got out of shape? Yeah, he says that, um, that the the competitive part of him is a monster, and he can't if he couldn't feed it at all. And if he would, he said he knew it would. It would just overwhelm his life. And one day, his wife kind of just, you know, gave him a little ribbing about how he was looking. And then a year and a half later, he's in the ring fighting again. He said,

Corey 9:40
Yeah, and yeah, it's kind of like that. Because I know that like, when I when I'm training, like I need to take like taking time off isn't bad. And I struggle with that. Like, if I take a day off in a month, like, I feel awful about myself, like, oh, I can't be getting better because I'm taking taking time off, and my wife is always like, Cory, you need to like, take a day or two and just like enjoy yourself, like, you can't just run yourself into the ground. But what do I do? I run myself into the ground every couple of months, and I have to take a couple days off. And then I realize, hey, yeah, I probably should have taken this day off. And it's a constant trouble because I have that competitive nature. Like, I always want to be getting better and finding that little bit of gain.

Scott Benner 10:26
Right? Well, so Cory, we're not gonna talk about your mental illness today, we're gonna stick on it. So although it would be interesting, I, I guess the the thing that that kind of interests me the most about you, is the possibilities of what you're about to say, based on what I've heard from other people. And let me tell you what I mean, by that. I have found at times that the more athletic people who have type one diabetes, seemed to know the least about it. And I know that's gonna sound crazy. And I'm sure there are plenty of athletic people who are like, I know a lot about my babies, and I'm sure you do. I'm just saying that there are times I talked to people who have done something in college, where they've been around like scenarios where they feel like the diabetes can't get in the way. So it's always a little better high than low or something like that. Yeah. And then you talk to them about, like, what's your ID once again, they're like, that's like seven and a half. And we're like, oh, have you ever considered like any, you start talking about diabetes management with them, and you realize, like, they don't know anything about this? Yeah. And and it's not always, but it has happened enough to me that it feels like a pattern to me. And then they do these amazing things. And I don't want to out this person, because he's lovely. But I was around a person one time who had done this kind of big thing around athletics, right. And I asked personally, like, how did you manage your blood sugar during that? And he said, I just ate a lot of candy bars. I'm like, wait, what? So are you telling me that you just went out and did this incredibly long range physical thing? And then on some sort of a scheduled devour to candy bar? Yeah. And he's like, Yeah, that's what I did. I was like, Oh, well, that doesn't feel like something I can tell people.

Corey 12:17
Right, exactly. That's not the message, right?

Scott Benner 12:20
And so because you've lived through a couple of generations of technology, I want to understand where you started with your management, where you are now and how that's maybe changed or informed what you're doing or if it hasn't, maybe, yeah, maybe, maybe, Cory, you're about to tell me you eat a lot of candy bars while you ride a bike. But, um, but go ahead.

Corey 12:37
Yeah, so I mean, obviously, when I first started 97, it was it was shots into the side. And it was, it was hard. And back then, I'll never forget my doctor when I was in the hospital, which I was in the hospital over Thanksgiving. Um, I do not recommend that it was as like a 14 or 15 year old person who Thanksgiving is their favorite holiday. It was absolutely miserable. Um, but I'll never forget the doctor when I was just kind of like trying to understand what diabetes was saying, Oh, yeah. And 10 years, they're thinking there'll be a cure. And, you know, I sit back now and think about that. And I'm like, man, like, that was way off. But you know, with with stuff like, you know, insulin pumps and CGM. It's, it makes a drastic difference. I know whenever I got my, my pump in my CGM, my Avon see dropped by like a point and a half just by not doing anything. And it really opened my eyes to like, how better management just in a simple sense of changing from sticking shots in myself to, you know, putting, uh, putting an insulin pump on can can really make a difference. And then it was just, you know, making those tweaks with my doctor, um, you know, every visit it might not have been a huge tweak, but, um, you know, it just seeing the numbers and not expecting drastic changes, you know, if I can go down from personally, I like to keep my a one C between like six, eight and seven Oh, and my doctor and I are pretty happy if that's where I'm at. But, you know, if it's like a six, seven, you know, it can fluctuate by point one and to me, that's a big deal and the attention to detail and trying to figure out what works and what doesn't work and just the information you can get from the pump. I know I typically can have some lows whenever I work out it during the day, so from between lunch and dinner, um, so I will let my my levels run a little bit high if I'm going to be riding, you know, in a race after work. That I know it's going to plummet right away. And I can take gels or you know, some carbs pre ride to kind of smooth that out. But it was a tough learning process. It's it really has been trial and error, and just finding out what works best for my body because, you know, talking to other, you know, diabetics that that are athletes, something's worked for one person, and then the next person's like, No, I can't do that. So, trial and error, kinda, to a point has been kind of where I'm at now in terms of trying to figure out how to do things if I'm doing a longer event. So probably about a month ago, I did a six or a six and a half hour ride. And I, I went in with a plan of what I wanted to do, of what I wanted to eat, and when I wanted to eat it, and I was in zone for almost the entire six hours, what zone, try to keep, so I try to keep it. I try to keep it around 180 or below. So I try to if I'm racing 120 to 180 is perfect if I'm but

Scott Benner 16:10
if you don't what happens,

Corey 16:14
try to figure it out on the fly.

Scott Benner 16:16
I mean, I mean, what, what mechanically happened, say, say you started race at 140? Would you get too low at some point?

Corey 16:26
It's a possibility. Yeah. So, you know, if I go out and run, let's say, I'm going out for a run after work today. I could no lie be at 330 at the start of the run, and 30 minutes later, I have an alert going off, and I'm down in any with no insulin on board.

Scott Benner 16:48
Can I ask you a question? Let me ask a question here. And it's the the answer. I don't care one way or the other. You don't listen to this podcast frequently. Right?

Corey 16:56
I occasionally not not consistent I

Scott Benner 16:59
consistently Yeah. So I want to, if I can for a second, I want to agree and disagree with you at the same time. But it'll be a lot of fun. And I'm sure a ton of fun for you having diabetes for 25 years and me not having it. I'm certain you're going to be thrilled by this conversation. But I expect you understand it's coming from a good place. So yeah, absolutely. So I would say that I believe and I have seen it happen over and over again 1000s of times enough to believe it. That if a person is using a really rock solid Basal insulin, meaning that they're their ratios are good and that they work and by work I mean, I mean, I guess what I what I mean is that you could not have food for 568 10 hours and your blood sugar doesn't fall if your Basal is in that space. And you have a good feeling for how to Bolus from meals Pre-Bolus Singh, you know, not creating situations where there's leftover insulin after the foods digested stuff like that. Yep, that if you go into something physical that and you don't have any active insulin going, I can't imagine you dropping that far. Like, I believe that you drop a person, not you, but a person can drop the three hundreds to 80 with a lot of activity, because you're activating the insulin that's in your body. Yeah, right. Right. And that kind of thing. And, again, I don't know what you're doing, like I might be talking about, like, one level of activity, and you might be carrying a boulder up a mountain. Like, I'm not I'm not saying that. You know what I mean? Yeah. But there's there is some balance to be found in there. And God, this is probably not what you expected. But a lot of type ones who have had diabetes for over 20 years that had it for so long before the technology existed. I feel like they're chasing more than they need to be. Yeah. And does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Okay. And I just think it gets hardwired into you at some point, like that idea of like, oh, when I'm active, I drop. Or when I do this, this happens. And you said something earlier that sparked this whole thought in me. But you're so good at telling your story. I couldn't jump in anywhere. But you said that some people have one experience, while other type ones have a completely different experience. And we take that as like, gospel for some gospel. Yeah, people have these anecdotal like experiences. And then one person will say, Well, I can do this and the other person will go well, I can't that doesn't work for me, except we don't have any background on either of these people do want right is one of them using significantly too much Basal insulin and hardly any Bolus insulin is one of them, you know, is one of their Basal insulins like being significantly underused and so they're bolusing constantly and they're dropping thing all the time. Nobody knows how to talk about it. granularly and so that a lot of their experiences and I know this, just speaking about management, and maybe taking it out of diabetes in general, but a lot of times people's experiences aren't that valuable to know. Because you don't know the other details surrounding them.

Corey 20:19
If that makes Yes. Okay. Yeah, you just know a small percentage.

Scott Benner 20:23
It's not enough to know if they're right. It's like anything else. Like there's, you know, any new story you see or a story your neighbor tells you, like, Oh, my God, the guy two doors over what a jerk bla bla bla bla bla, you go talk to the guy two years ago, he parked his car on my lawn, you know? Like really goes? Yeah, I mean, I come out and his cars parked in my honest Hey, can you move the car? And I'm talking to the neighbor. He's like, hey, it's always upset with where my car is? And I'm like, Yes, we don't have enough of this story here. And yeah, right happens. So often, when we're talking about diabetes, it's the, oh, this is a certainty or this happens to me, and then people share it online. And then suddenly, they think it's a rule. And yeah, that to me is, I think that's sometimes how we get where we are, which is that is that it's just anecdotes built on top of anecdotes that then make rolls in people's heads that they believe are true. And then their self fulfilling prophecies sometimes, and I'm not saying it activity doesn't make your blood sugar fall, obviously, obviously, you know, high level looking at it. That's what happens. And I don't have any reason for saying that to you. Other than I just wanted to say like, I'm not like, you should change your life, Cory? Oh,

Corey 21:33
no, no, no, it's okay. And to be honest, probably probably part of it plays in it is, I mean, it's scary as hell whenever, you know, I'm out on a especially on a run when I'm away from home. Yeah. And I think, hey, you know, this has happened to me in the past, because, you know, I could do you know, when I wake up in the morning, and maybe do a morning ride that I'm fasted, I could I don't drop it all. Yeah. But it's, it's the mid day stuff. And the the post work stuff where I bet I've had zero onboard insulin. And, you know, I haven't eaten in, you know, three or four hours, and I'm just tanking, and I've gone to my doctor, and I've taken examples, like from my pump and showed it, and I'm begging I'm like, someone, like, helped me understand this, because I'm trying to understand it. But you know, am I missing something? Am I too close to it? And I've been trying for, you know, a couple years to try and figure it out. Because it's a scary thing. If I'm, you know, a couple miles away from home, and, you know, I'm tanking, and I'm 50. And no one's around like,

Scott Benner 22:45
it feels to die all by yourself. Yeah. Out Run around, right. Well, I'm, yeah, scary. Obviously, I don't have context for that. And I'm not I'm not minimizing at all, I would say there are sometimes there are things that you don't think to think of like, like end of the day, when the end of the day when people's blood sugar's fall, like after work, which I think is fairly common, right? Yeah. Because I've been able to watch it in another person. What I will tell you is, is that being alive creates a level of stress and anxiety that no one's aware of. And I mean, being out in the world being at school being at work driving, and that requires more insulin. And so you have this bigger baseline, this heavier baseline events on that lives in you all day long. While this is existing, and you maybe it's adrenaline from like, having a crappy boss, or like, I don't know, like, you know what I mean? Like, somebody yelled at you all day, and then you leave that place, and you experience this, like, Oh, I'm out of there. And then all that goes away. And again, you have too much insulin in you when that happens. Yeah, and then there you go. I had to, I learned when my daughter was in school, that I'd have to keep pushing to keep her blood sugar where it was pushing with insulin, but that there was a moment in the afternoon that she had to eat, or that we had to create a Temp Basal that was that was completely void. It was gone. In order to create an inquiry This is because you don't listen too much. So like what I would, my thought would be this. She's going to get low. Excuse me, I'm sorry, at 3pm Yeah, there's an amount of carbs she could eat at 232 40 that would stop the low at 3pm from ever happening. Yeah, or we could completely eliminate or Basal from like, why I forget how I used to do it, but probably about from like 150 to three o'clock. So you take the Basal away for about an hour or so. Yeah, and then it creates a black hole in the future where the Basal doesn't exist. And so when the low comes and it tries the fall, normally it would be propelled by the existing Basal but in Then it gets caught by the sheer fact that there's no Basal that exists. Yeah, there's nothing there. Yeah. And it's, it's, it's trippy to think about it that way for some people but you it is it's like time travel. Like I always say that the the insulin you use now is for later. But a more specific way to think about it is that the insulin you used before it is for now. So right similarly the insulin that you took away before impacts now the same way. And yeah, and that kind of stuff is listen, I'm gonna be honest, I'm a person who cares about a child who has nothing but time to like, look at these things and then figure out little ways to manipulate insulin to make it work an adult try. I'm sure you have like a wife and a home. Yep, might have a baby a baby a baby on the way rationalizations. Yeah. And like so you're busy. You're not sitting around like I am pulling on your your mustache going. I wonder, yeah. It's hard for people. It's why you go to the doctor, you say, Please help me. And they go. I don't know, you get low in the afternoon? Yeah, yes. Thanks a lot.

Corey 26:05
Yeah, it's frustrating, because I would like to Toy what toy was some stuff, but, you know, it's a scary thing. You know, when you get I've never had to go to the hospital because of a low or anything. But, you know, my wife's had to help me, you know, overnight, you know, you know, she's had to help me once or twice overnight. And, you know, it's, it's terrifying. And it's tough to explain, because, you know, people just, I don't want to say they don't understand, but it's just something that's, it's hard to articulate. Um, and you can't, because my wife will look at me and, you know, she'll see, you know, I'll tell her, I'm low. And she goes, Well, how do you feel like she asked me about a month ago, like, how do you feel like, what does it feel like? And I tried to tell her, I'm like, You're never going to understand like, I love you more than anything in the entire world. But like, you'll I could never articulate that to you, a friend

Scott Benner 27:02
of mine. And you said that it feels like her mind is racing, but her body's going very slow.

Corey 27:07
Yeah, exactly. Okay. Um, and there's just no good way to explain it. Like I wish I could but unless you have type one like you, you just even even she asked like, I know when my blood sugar's going high. Like I feel that she said, What does it feel like? And I'm like, I can't explain it to you like, I can try but like, it won't even come close to like, what I feel and how it is

Scott Benner 27:32
Cory. I listen for a person who does not have diabetes at all. I am in and around it as much as anybody and I have 1000s of hours of talking to people that have both been recorded and haven't been recorded. I've heard people say a million different things. My daughter has type one diabetes I've seen adults and children below and adults and children be high and I still have zero context for what it means yeah to you.

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I could never possibly understand it because it's you're altered. You don't I mean like your your your brain is not functioning correctly and therefore all the feedback you're getting is skewed and wrong and not something people are used to seeing. It's like trying to describe being high to somebody who's never been high before. Like, what does that feel? Yeah, you know, it's the amount drugs. They're not bloodshed. Right,

Corey 30:09
right. Yeah, I got Yeah.

Scott Benner 30:12
I know, man, I went to college calm down. But But no, I get what you're saying. And I get your concerns. I and I and maybe, and maybe there's no answer for people who have had to live this long without the technology, like maybe there is no answer maybe that fear is just so grained in and well earned, by the way that you just don't want to break free of it. But I will say something, I don't think a one C is the measure of your health. I think that limiting variable variability of your high and low blood sugars is a good measurement. But a one season indicator, I would say to you that there are about 25 episodes of this podcast that are specifically maintenance. If you listen through them, I imagine your a one C would be in the fives inside of six months, and you would experience fewer lows while you were exercising. Okay, that's that is my guess, based on what I've seen happen to many, many other people and the responses you're giving me the thoughtfulness you have around diabetes. So yeah, you don't need to do that. I'm just saying that. I I know people who have competed in the Olympics that are doing strenuous things like very strenuous long term things and their blood sugar's don't fall while they're competing. Right? You know, and it's yeah, that kind of balance that I'm talking about. But that's not the point you I place a couple shows about this. You do something that I don't, I can't wrap my brain around. So like a triathlon includes bike swimming and running.

Corey 31:48
Yep, yeah, you swim, then you bike, and then you run?

Scott Benner 31:52
What if I told you I didn't plan on doing all three of those things in the rest of my life, let alone on the same day?

Corey 31:58
What when, when I first told my friends, I was doing it, that's the exact same thing. They said to me.

Scott Benner 32:03
That's my honest answer. That's why oh, that sounds horrible. When you said you run to the gym, I was like, kind of a insane person. And then I thought, Well, that makes total sense. Yeah, yeah. No, no. Um, so what is it? How do you prep for it? Like, and how, and what is the day like, when you're in a triathlon prior to COVID?

Corey 32:23
Yeah, prior to COVID. I mean, it's, you know, you, you set out a plan, and you, you know, it's kind of like diabetes, you, you know, you set out a plan to be as successful as possible, and you stick to that plan, you know, you deviate when you need to, usually, I work with a coach. So usually I have a plan, set up, you know, one to two weeks in advance, I take a look at it based on my life schedule, if I need to, you know, swap something out here, there. But, you know, it's usually getting to the pool two or three days a week, I'm running three or four days a week, and then, you know, biking, you know, right now I'm biking five or six days a week. Um, you know, a lot of times, that's, hey, I have to get up before work and do one of the workouts, maybe do one at lunch, or if I can't do one of those times, it's after work. And then on the weekends, obviously, it's, you know, there's more time to do some things. So that's whenever I would get in, you know, a longer run or a longer bike, but um, you know, a lot of time management and just trying to fit something in when there's some time in the work schedule. And in the personal life schedule.

Scott Benner 33:34
It is that that time is spent despite sound like such a simple question, but you're building muscular, like, look for words, but you're building your body in ways that it'll be able to do these things. You're building up a resilience to it, and you're growing towards a longer distance.

Corey 33:55
Yep. Correct. And there is some some short burst stuff sprinkled in there. But yeah, it's mostly an endurance, endurance workout.

Scott Benner 34:05
While I'm not asking you exactly where you work, what kind of work do you do that you have? Like, I'm, I'm fascinated that you have the time to do this. So like, how do you make that work?

Corey 34:13
So it's really nice, because I actually work. I work for 10 hour days, and I'm a full time work from home. So I have every Friday off. Um, so when I say you know, go workout at lunch. My basement I have a bike trainer, I have a wahoo kicker. So my actual bike is on that and I can just jump on there, go on Swift and get a workout in and then all I have to do is walk upstairs jump in the shower for five minutes and and I'm back at my work desk here. When I was working in the office, it was a little more difficult but you know, being being a work from home person, you know, I can take, you know, 20 minutes here over lunch or if I have a longer lunch one day and I was able to start work early, I can get an hour workout in over lunch or, you know, just step out my front door and go for a quick 45 minute run. And that's kind of helped a lot. us rather than just being able to, you know, drive to work, drive back, and then most of that time, it would be workouts, you know, strictly afterwards. Yeah.

Scott Benner 35:22
So you can kind of use commuting time and other dead time that Yeah, did exist during the day when you're at an office job that you don't think about. Yeah. You said Swift is that I apologize. But is that like, peloton like? Is it a? Is it like an online platform where people ride together? Where's that?

Corey 35:40
Yeah. So yeah, so it's a kind of, they consider it a multiplayer online cycling platform. So you know, you have an avatar, you have a smart trainer that's hooked up to I run it off my computer. And then as you cycle, you know, on the bike trainer, your avatar moves, you know, as hard as you're, you know, pedaling and cycling, you use watts. And that's, you know, how it dictates how fast you go, how far you go. So if you're going up, and what's nice about Swift is, it's a virtual world. But it simulates real life gradients. So if, in the game, you're going up a 5% Hill, the game will talk to your smart trainer, and the resistance will ramp up as if you're going up that 5% grade. I'm in real life. Gotcha. So yeah, it's it's like riding outside, you know, quote, unquote, it's like riding outside. But you know, you can do it from the basement. So if it's pouring down rain outside, or if it's snowing, I can get a comparable workout on the game as as I might outside,

Scott Benner 36:58
I'm laughing. And I don't know why. But I'm imagining that there's somebody who can ride a stationary bike who couldn't ride on the road, who's like an amazing person on Swift that if you took them outside, they'd be like, Ah, I don't know why that

Corey 37:10
you're, you are 100% Correct. Oh, no, Jenna, you know, people that, you know, do this type of stuff. There, there are people who are strictly professionals at racing in Swift. And you know, they might race outside. But there, there are certain things in the game that you can be really, really good at. Like, if you're a good sprinter and have good top end watts, you can be really, really good at specific things in here. You might be good at that outside. But you know, a team might snatch you up because you are a great sprinter because that can be used in certain aspects of the races. So it's the same in some sense. But you know, another sense, it's kind of a lot different. If that makes sense.

Scott Benner 37:59
I enjoyed your answer. And I was delighted by being correct. I thought I was being silly. And then all of a sudden, I was like, Am I making a point? Excellent.

Corey 38:10
No, because yeah, so what when you're on a bike trainer, you're not, because when you ride a bike outside, you have to have the ability to balance yourself as you're riding outside. So you're utilizing a lot more of your core, if you're on a bike trainer, you don't have to have that. So, you know, bike handling skills, when you're racing outside is a pretty significant thing. And, you know, some people you know, if they're racing or riding inside on Swift, they don't get that that quote unquote, practice on bike handling skills. So, you know, certain types of races outside bike handling skills are super important on you know, an Ironman bike leg, it's, you know, it's important, but it's not that important, but there's races like criteriums, where it's basically all out for 40 minutes around, you know, sometimes sharp turns, you know, that could, that could be a pretty significant, you know, safety hazard if you can't handle your bike on the road and, you know, caused an accident. So, in a triathlon,

Scott Benner 39:15
how fast do you think you're riding a bike?

Corey 39:18
Uh, you know, probably between, you know, top end, depending on the course how flat it is, or how hilly it is, you know, top end, you know, 30 miles an hour, you know, probably average around 20 to 22.

Scott Benner 39:32
That's fast ourself if you follow those for sure. Hey, quick question. It's gonna sound silly. I apologize. Is this an I'll bleep it out later. Is this hard on your like, you know, your bits and pieces and stuff like that? Like?

Corey 39:46
It's funny you asked that because I just had to go to the doctor today because I've had a saddle sore. So not necessarily my bits and pieces, but there is I think didn't have to go to the doctor today because of something that I kind of have ignored not taking care of

Scott Benner 40:05
for you. Do you find yourself having to expose your butt to a doctor today?

Corey 40:09
Oh, yeah, I did. So yeah, that was a great, great.

Scott Benner 40:13
Good doings, huh? Yeah, I've it doesn't fit here at all. But I told a story on the podcast one time where I went in for a physical and was told that it was like a visit with the doctor. I was told I was going to visit with the doctor for 15 minutes. And then I was going to make an appointment and come back for a physical. Yeah, well, apparently that was relayed to me improperly. So I was going to a physical not, which is fine. But I mean, I listen, I'm 50 I was going to a physical I know what the physical be. But I didn't think it was happening that moment. Luckily, I was prepared, meaning I didn't like you know, you know, run from the gym or something. And then like, show up, so I was, you know, prepared and clean and etc. And I sit there and I think we're just supposed to be talking and we're chatting away. And then he tells me to take my pants down. And I was like, kind of weird interview is this. And then before I knew it, I was having small talk with a man who was um, you know, he's taking his fingers score. I was not ready for it. I did not know it was gonna happen. And so your saddle sore is not making me laugh, because I have a lot. But yeah, I mean, even for ladies, I would think that they're, I mean, what's a word that like adults use like their hay hootenanny? Like I would imagine that's tough with that seat, right?

Corey 41:29
Yeah, so a bike fit is really important. You know, whether you're riding outside or whether you're, you know, you're riding inside on the trainer, that usually can cure things. So really, what mine came from was my saddle was really old. And it had worn away at the edges to the point where I was putting pressure on, on on a part of my, on our part of my bike that, you know, typically wasn't getting that pressure.

Scott Benner 41:58
I was gonna say, we're away at the saddle and then we're away you're asked, that's Yeah,

Corey 42:02
that's exactly what happens. Since I've gotten the saddle but, you know, it's, it's basically, you know, a saddle sores just like a pus filled bump that you that you get well, underneath of that. I'm thinking that I have a cyst there. And, you know, that might have to be surgically taken out, you know, for me to get better. It's like riding

Scott Benner 42:24
is gonna kill you. And by the way, if you want to look inside of my mind, I'm not bleeping Hey, hoochie nanny later, but I might. I might bleep out pus filled. Baby feel terrible. Well, that's, that's Listen, it's amazing. I hope it heals for you quickly and that you don't need surgery for certain. Yeah. Have you ever done an Iron Man and completed it? Yeah, I've done two of them. Do you have the tattoo?

Corey 42:49
My first one. To be honest, it's been so long that I can't remember what I think. 2014 I did Ironman Louisville. And then 2016 I did Ironman Maryland.

Scott Benner 43:01
But do you get the tattoo? No, I do not. I do not your wife tell you not to get her. Did you think it was a weird move?

Corey 43:08
I actually was going to and so I don't have any tattoos to begin with. Right? I'm not that I don't like them. It's just I never had any.

Scott Benner 43:16
I don't have to apologize. Very good. Yeah,

Corey 43:19
it's, uh, I had some picked out that I was going to do. And then it just kind of, you know, slipped my mind. And this is the first you you bring it up is the first time I've thought about it multiple years, which tells me that I probably should not do it.

Scott Benner 43:35
Yeah, you really don't care. I genuinely believe that I know, people who did an Ironman just to get the tattoo. So yeah. Oh, I believe that. So that's it. I don't fundamentally understand any of that. But it's still it's amazing. So you show in your note, you said that there's a so I guess this, this is what this width platform allows you to build teams and etc. And you said you guys have one? That's just for type ones.

Corey 44:03
Yeah, so it's actually a Facebook group. It's called swift team type one. Okay. Um, and when the pandemic started, I was just kind of looking for, you know, a group. I had read on a message board, like a triathlon message board that, Hey, there's this type one group, you know, someone had asked a question about type one diabetes, that was kind of out the left field and someone put in, oh, hey, you should check out this Facebook group. It's, it's Zwift. Team type one. So I went in there. It's a closed group. So I just had to put in that aim a type one and it's, it's a, it's a group of, you know, over 2000 people that either have type one, or have a close friend or family member that has type one. To be honest, it's mostly type one diabetics, about probably about 75% type one diabetics, and then As a spin off to that there's a race for a race team type one that kind of handles all of the racing stuff. So if you just want to race you can join that also. And we put together teams that that do really, really well with a large majority of the teams typically being type one diabetics.

Scott Benner 45:23
Okay. Wow, that's really cool. So you guys just it that's so you're together, virtually though, like you've never Yep. Do you even would you know, one of those people if you looked at them?

Corey 45:35
So actually, through this group, I met a kid that's a type one diabetic that lives 15 minutes away from me here in Pittsburgh. So, you know, I'm gonna, you know, when when things get a little bit better outside here, I'm gonna join him for some group rides. And yeah, it's, it's, it's really been cool. I, you know, on the on the type one group, you know, people are going in there. And, you know, we have a guy that travels for work. And when he travels to a different city, if there's one of us that that lives there, he's like, Hey, let's go out for a bike ride. You know, we have people meeting each other in real life off of the group, and it's really cool whenever you're traveling somewhere, Hey, is anybody from here and you know, getting together for group rides and stuff. So it's, it's, it's way more than I expected whenever I whenever I started.

Scott Benner 46:27
That's it. Listen, I think that's amazing. I also think that after that baby comes, if your wife lets you out of the house to go for a bike ride, I'll be amazed.

Corey 46:36
So you know what the worst part is, I actually signed up for two half Iron Man's last year that got bumped to this year. The first one is a week before her due date. And the second one is two weeks after she is set to give birth. So

Scott Benner 46:53
those sounds like when you go to those. That'll be the reason she leaves you 15 years later. So you'll be standing in a courtroom

Corey 47:01
ready? That's already cancelled?

Scott Benner 47:03
Yeah. For you be standing in a courtroom in your late 40s. Going Wait, are you still mad about that? And she'd be like, Oh, yeah. 100%

Corey 47:11
Actually, she she's the one telling me oh, yeah, you can you can go do that one. Two weeks after I'm like, Cory, Are you effing kidding me right? away?

Scott Benner 47:19
I'm leaving. How long you been married?

Corey 47:22
I'm got married at the end of 2019.

Scott Benner 47:25
That's a trap. Cory. Let me let's lay. I'm a Veteran. I'm gonna tell you something.

Corey 47:28
No, at the end. No, I'm sorry. She's gonna be mad. 2008.

Scott Benner 47:32
Don't worry. She tested you there. You can go. Sure. Go ahead. It's no problem you're supposed to then say no, of course I would never go then. That's that's exactly what I Oh, that's a trap. That would be like if she's like, you could you know, go out with one of my friends. I'm okay with an open she does. That. Cory. She doesn't mean that. That's not okay. You can't do that. No, no, no, no, you're smart. You took care of that very well.

Corey 47:55
I want so I was originally right. November, November 2019.

Scott Benner 48:00
Got him sit back and say your blood sugar is low right now. Hey, Cory. Yeah, exactly.

Corey 48:04
That's what we're gonna play it off.

Scott Benner 48:05
Yeah, you're fine. Don't worry about that. Corey, his wife. He knows when you got married, relax. No, seriously, I would never ever do that. That's like my one time my wife is I suppose looking at a car and she was she you can get that I was like, I waited like four more weeks to make sure she really really meant it. Because this was one of the Well that's

Corey 48:23
the thing. So So whenever you go, and especially the bigger races like Iron Man's and 70 point threes, we treat them as a small vacation. So we'll leave on a Thursday, the race is either a Saturday or Sunday. So we take it as like a Thursday through Monday thing. And my, my wife just loves to go, you know, as I'm racing, she's beating other people, you know, spectators and stuff show. She used to just, you know, post up at a bar on the, you know, on the right by the race and she'll follow me around and I couldn't ask for a more supportive wife seems like terms of this. It's, it's pretty insane. But yeah, we it's a whole thing. So we'll go a few days early. Check out some sites around places we go to we'll stay in there too after to see anything we want to do together. So yeah, it's turned out pretty well.

Scott Benner 49:17
Cory Listen, let's take a pause here while the married people who are laughing at you who have older children, and think that you think that's gonna be your life as you get older. Let's let them settle back down and wipe the tears out of their eyes as they're driving. You guys gotta be careful while you're driving. You can't just start crying like that. No, of course. Listen, I think that's really amazing. And if you can keep that going after you have kids, then you should write a book because that's pretty cool. Seriously, and I'm jealous of your if I'm being honest, I'm jealous of the fact that your passion also leans into your health. And that's really kind of great. You know what I mean? Like to have a thing that's doing two things at once. It's, it's, you know, it's it's fun. Feeling a passion? It's it's giving you a hobby. It's keeping you healthy. Like, that's really terrific.

Corey 50:06
Yeah, yeah, it's been a, it's been good so far

Scott Benner 50:09
know what kind of pump you're using. You said you had a pump, but you didn't tell me which one?

Corey 50:13
Yeah, so I had the 670 G,

Scott Benner 50:15
I was gonna say you're on Medtronic. It's right in that part of the country. Is that the automatic one? Is that the? Yeah, it is making those decisions for you. And it's keeping you at like a six, seven ish 687?

Corey 50:28
I think my last was 6969 with with very minimal blows. So Right?

Scott Benner 50:37
Does it allow you to override it? Like what? Like, what if you woke up today? And you were like, dammit, I want my agency to be six. His day, can you see how to inside of that system? How to manage that?

Corey 50:49
I would probably turn off, it's called Auto mode. I would turn that off and just be able to tinker with it myself. Yeah, gotcha.

Scott Benner 50:59
That's a rousing, rousing celebration for auto mode, you know what I would do? I would turn that auto mode.

Corey 51:07
Well, so yeah, so So auto mode I used to have trouble with with overnight lows, and, and it it made them non existent. So I was really happy in that, like, during the day, it can be a little iffy. But I'm actually I'm up on my warranty at the beginning of the year. So I have a endo appointment in July. And I'm going to toy with the idea of possibly moving on, if something else makes sense, fun time

Scott Benner 51:37
for you. It is like that. It's a fun time, you could be tandem IQ, you could go on the pod five, there's so many options now. And you get them yeah, the Dexcom sensor, which, from what I hear is a better experience, maybe than the metro.

Corey 51:50
Yeah. And that's what's really nice about like the the type one group to like, probably every couple of weeks, someone's coming on, like, hey, what do you think about this system, and I just kind of saved those conversations when I'm gonna sit down and really, you know, decide if I want to stay with Medtronic or go somewhere else. Because, you know, people are putting in, oh, I have this system, and they're given pros and cons. And, um, you know, to me, there isn't anywhere else that that I can think of that I can go where I get people that are wearing, you know, any system that's available, there's going to be at least multiple of them, or who are in that thread talking about it. So yeah, it's going to be a good source of information, you know, over the next couple of months, when I start to seriously look and see if I want to change Plus,

Scott Benner 52:41
they're living a similar lifestyle is yours, which makes it Yeah, exactly sure to hear from you would love the Facebook page for this podcast. Maybe? It's, um, I think it's up near like, 11,000. Listen, listeners are in there. And they're just talking about management stuff constantly.

Corey 52:55
Oh, yeah. No, I'll have to join that. Because that, yeah, I didn't know. That was a group. But I'm definitely going to join that

Scott Benner 53:03
I'm enjoying talking to you. Because you are mostly unaware of me and the podcast and all that stuff. And there, it's nice, because there are some times when people come on, and they're just so aware of it that you know, the conversations take a different turn because sometimes they're here to like say thank you sometimes and which is lovely. And I don't want to say it isn't so so yeah,

Corey 53:22
so I came across your podcast most to be honest, mostly through the athletic stuff. So I've listened to all the all the athletes you've had on and things of that nature. And yeah, I listened to so many podcasts and I have so many downloaded waited to go that I've been waiting to listen to for years. It's just sometimes tough to get to them. But you know, I've always enjoyed what what you've done so far. And yeah, I do want to listen to some of those management one. Thank you. That you had mentioned earlier.

Scott Benner 53:55
I also I'll tell you about them in the second quarter, but I appreciate how you said so far. I always like that when it makes me smile when somebody like they say something nice about you though, like so far everything I've heard. In case you've said something I

Corey 54:07
guarantee it's gonna kick your

Scott Benner 54:09
case, you've said something crazy that I don't know about. I don't want to attach myself to it. I don't want to be like this guy. Everything he says is genius. And then I got to pick up my phone one day and hear you talking about some crazy conspiracy theories. That was lovely. The way you slip that in there. You're like, you know, I've heard I'm okay saying I listened. Far my friend. Did this go anywhere near the way you expected? Or is it? Did you not have an expectation for this?

Corey 54:38
I really didn't have an expectation good. No, I

Scott Benner 54:41
thought I was I I'm not kicking you off. I'm just I thought it was great. I enjoy talking to you. I know that. Um, so for me, I'm in. I'm in an odd predicament. You know, in these conversations, you've had diabetes for a very long time. Do you have like I said before, I've had experiences that people have been diagnosed in the last five For 10 years even have not had, you've had more experiences that people diagnosed the last three or four years have not had, like you've lived through iterations of what it meant to have type one diabetes. And you get all those experiences. And then all this technology comes along. And these ideas like I mean, honestly, can you try to think back to 20 years ago, you're going into high school, I'm a doctor and I pull you aside and I go, Cory, what I want to do is create a black hole of Basal insulin two hours in the future, so that you'd be like, what is what now? You know, and none of that existed because nobody had CGM, they couldn't see what was happening. They couldn't suss out where things were going right and going wrong, etc, etc, right. But you feel a very soft spot in my heart when I'm talking to you. Because I have a friend who's passed away who has had who had type one diabetes, since we were kids, we were 18 or so. And he died for certain because of his type one. And he, you know, he grew up managing the way you would manage in the late 80s. And he never really ventured away from it, he never really thought more or less about it, it was always better high than low, because you know, I get dizzy or I fell out of bed one time or you know, like that, those kinds of things. And then the technology came along, the better insulin came along. And he just never sort of came along with it. And if I tried to talk to him about diabetes, it they tried to imagine just the angriest conversation, you could write like, he would take it as poorly as you could expect there. And yeah, and only because we love each other and knew each other for so long. Could I even get a couple sentences into Hey, I think you might like this Dexcom thing. Right? Right. But nonetheless, you know, it wasn't the B and you know, he had a heart attack eventually, and and he passed, he never woke up from that heart attack. And when I talk about diabetes, it is with my friend Mike's like memory in the back of my head that I never want to put people in a position where they think, better high than low. I don't know. Yeah, like, I'm gonna err on the side of caution. Because that's sometimes it hasn't for you. And it doesn't seem like it ever would. But it becomes a slippery slope for other people. Where Hey,

Corey 57:16
Scott, yeah, I'm not gonna be a show like, no. I mean, that's how I've thought in the past,

Scott Benner 57:22
I would imagine and with incredibly good reason, like I said, from where you came from 100%

Corey 57:28
Yeah, so yeah, I'm so I'm sorry, for your loss. Yeah, it's, and I'd be lying. If I said, you know, I'm terrified of diabetes, killing me. I mean, it, you know, it's, yeah, 20 plus years already. And, you know, you don't really know what it's done to your body, you know, and I'm only 35. You know, 36. You know, if, if there isn't a cure, you know, if I don't take care of myself, like, it's a scary proposition, you know, 20 more years down the road.

Scott Benner 58:01
Yeah. And it's only what it's really the only reason why I brought this stuff up with you earlier. And it wasn't because of you, it's because I have the added. I don't want to say pressure, because I don't mean pressure. But maybe it's responsibility, I'm not certain. But there are a lot of people who are going to listen to this. And so I don't want to, I never want to feel like I'm saying it's just 150 Let it be at 150. Because what happens to people's 150 becomes 160 comes 180, then all of a sudden, to hundreds, only 100 points higher than it's supposed to be and, and then they they kind of tumbled down that rabbit hole, and they lose track of it. And I am telling you again, I don't have type one. But this podcast is incredibly popular for a reason. I don't think it's my razor sharp wit. So it's because of how we talk about using insulin and how effective it ends up being for I think most of the people who listen. And so and so I just want people to know that there is a way to use your insulin that doesn't lead to issues like that. Now, most people are not going to be doing a triathlon or not working out like you every day, I'm not saying you're not going to that that couldn't possibly happen to you, obviously, it could, if you just jumped into it without having settings in the right place and really understanding, you know, the insulin use and stuff like that, which I'm not saying you don't I'm just saying if a person did and didn't have that they would put themselves in a problem very quickly. And I don't know what it's like to be by myself and feel like hopeless and lost and helpless like that. And I can't imagine it's not the scariest thing in the world. You know, so I get all sides of it. I just I think that people should in general also get all sides of it, and then make a decision based on absolutely, you know, based on what they want to do. I got very far away from there's a really cool Facebook group where people ride virtually that have type one diabetes, I'm sorry, which I hope people check out if you're like a swift user and you don't know about this

Corey 1:00:00
Yeah, and I mean, even if you just want to John want to join the group and you have a bike and you want to ride inside, like, just join the group and experience it, if you don't like it, you know, you can always leave like that there some of the most supportive people I've ever met in my entire life. And it's, it's, it's vastly positive. Like, if there's something negative said said in there, you know, it's it's taking care of not that not that things are, you know, not that it's just a rosy proposition that you can only say nice things, but, you know, if something, if something is set out a line, people are gonna say, hey, like, you know, why would you? Why would you say that? And I think it's just a general understanding in there of just like minded people that want to be healthier and want to be better. And biking is just one avenue to hopefully help. And then, you know, if you have questions, just ask, you know, someone probably has had an experience or, you know, has something that that might be able to help. Um, and, you know, I'd rather have too much information or, or too much, or an ability to ask too many questions, then not have that.

Scott Benner 1:01:14
Yeah. Well, you're preaching to the choir here, because the, the Facebook page around the podcast, I, I managed the same way. Like I don't like I don't, I don't really manage it at all. I look here a bunch of adults act like, you know, have conversations be nice to each other. The rules of the it's, it's, I wonder if I can just find them very quickly. Hold on a second. How do you figure this out? Group? Moderation, say, oh, group rules. Here's rule one, be nice, be helpful. Be human, treat people the way you would be treated if you break the rules, that I'm gonna have to kick you. And I don't want to be involved in both. Like, that's how the rules go. You don't? It sounds. Yeah, it sounds like the same thing. Yes. Yeah. My rule number three is, if this community becomes a pain in my ass, I'll delete it. Like, yeah, just like, Please don't make me involved in pettiness. And it turns out, it's never been a problem. And I think for similar reasons to what you're describing, because there was a catalyst that brought everybody together, they listened to the podcast already. So they were they were very similarly minded. They come together, and now they find themselves thinking about things. Similarly, so there's no real reason for them to fight. They just help each other. It's wonderful. It's one of the I can't believe I'm saying this. But creating that Facebook group is one of the was one of the top 100 best things I've ever done in my life, because I watch how it helps people. Yeah, and

Corey 1:02:38
stuff like that is like I'm not on Facebook, like I don't post anything on my junk. The only reason I'm on Facebook ever, is for racing. And we have, you know, we have groups of every team has their own messenger group and the team's online like, I talk to people on there, but I don't check Facebook outside of that. If I didn't have this, I probably wouldn't be on at all.

Scott Benner 1:03:02
Yeah, you and I are the same exact query. I'm a grown man, I don't want to be on airs. Every time I open it up to manage something for it, I remind myself, I'm managing a group for the podcast. I'm not on Facebook. That's how I feel. Yeah, exactly. So it's very similar to when I post something on Instagram, I think to myself, Oh, what am I 15? You know, so, but I, you know, it's a great way to reach people. And it's a great way for people to reach up each other. And I think that all that I think like I'm not denigrating, and I think it's wonderful. I just, I feel a little too old to be on social media like that. At times, you know, but it does a wonderful thing for people as the podcast does. And I bet you your writing group does and, and so yeah, and so on. You know, I love teasing you about being married. That was fun.

Corey 1:03:46
Hey, that's okay. I'm still in the early stages, so I can take it.

Scott Benner 1:03:50
Yeah. Oh, you're right. It had none of those things landed with any real honesty for you.

Corey 1:03:57
I'm still living the dream.

Scott Benner 1:03:58
Yeah, for 15 years. Now when I tell you, Cory, you're not allowed to go ride your bicycle on the weekend. But but I'm an adult. And I work hard enough. Like that's not how this works. Cory Shut up. Yeah, exactly. That's fantastic. Oh, my gosh. Is there anything that we didn't talk about that you were hoping to?

Corey 1:04:15
Yeah, I just actually wanted to plug our racing teams that that's okay. So really our biggest race group, it's called WT RL. And basically they do team time trials. So that's every team can be up to eight riders, and you ride as a team on different course routes every week. There's about 4000 riders every week. I think this past week there 700 teams. They're divided up into what's called Coffee classes, which are kind of broken down based on ability level. So in essence, there's four of those and the top 10 teams in each coffee class. get promoted to what's called the platinum league. And that race is shown on YouTube with commenters like a legit broadcast where they bounce from team to team talk about talk about how teams are racing talk about backstories. And our teams are wildly successful. And that this week, I know we have three teams in the platinum League. So it's not just like our teams are there, you know, some people do ride just to have a little bit of competitive but they are now to win. One of our teams that I raced on two weeks ago, we set a course record and and won our coffee class. And, and we finished, we finished third, your two weeks ago, we set a course record last week, we finished third. We've been in the platinum League for the last 22 out of the last 23 weeks. So we have some legit seriously good bike riders, you know, throughout. So if that's something that interests you know, jump in the people that do the commentary. To be honest, they love our team, they always talk about type one diabetes on the broadcast, talk about how, you know, we use the platform and the exercise to to help keep ourselves healthy. And we were featured on the broadcast last week for about two minutes, which doesn't seem like a lot. But you know, for an hour long race with hundreds of teams, you know, we were one of the ones they picked out. Yeah. And focused on so, you know, I just have to really shout out, you know, all our all our TTT teams, and how well they do and, you know, we do other things, too. For World diabetes Day, we did a 20 we do every year a 24 hour relay. So for 24 hours on World diabetes Day, you know, you'll find a pack of Team type one in Swift, and we have our own custom kits, jerseys that were made up for us. So you know, if you're riding in there, you'll you'll see someone's Phantom. You know, we we had people that rode 24 hours straight for the entire time. So, you know, we're doing outstanding things and people notice and, um, you know, if you're hesitant to just join, I guarantee you're gonna love it. You'll love the group and, you know, we're always looking for people to race. So, um, you know, enjoy the fun.

Scott Benner 1:07:30
I appreciate sharing that with everybody. That's excellent. It really

Corey 1:07:33
if you want to get a bike trainer you're in

Scott Benner 1:07:38
like a gory I gotta cancel this podcast you want me to ride I mean, you know I I'm giving my life here for this. I sit in this chair a lot to get this accomplished. It really is. That's very kind of you. I'm, I'm going to I'm going to do the very American thing of ignoring my health right up until it's about to kill me and then try to do that is very, that's my goal. Yeah, I just want to I'll say it's like, it's like hiding from a bear. Like, I just want to see it over the eye like, oh, there it is. Now I'm gonna learn how to shoot a gun right now.

Corey 1:08:14
You just You just got to be the the, the person in front of the slowest person so the bear doesn't get you. Yeah, that

Scott Benner 1:08:21
doesn't work with heart disease as well. But I understand what you're saying. Oh, no, no, I appreciate that very much. i Wow, that it seems so outside of who I am. That it's hard for me to wrap my head around while you're saying it. Yeah, I don't I think it's possible. Coming back to what we talked about early on. It's a really it's a really similar thing. My son plays baseball in college and my free time is spent supporting his endeavor or watching it. Yeah, and it really is interesting how much at certain at the times of year when being outside would be a good thing it takes up and then it makes those other months very focused on getting the other stuff done. You don't get to during that time. I'm sure he won't play forever. So when that's over, who knows? Maybe I shouldn't laugh maybe I'll find myself in my basement riding a bicycle getting a sore on my ass. And yeah, I can't wait to see you though. See me or this or what were you gonna say?

Corey 1:09:20
Oh no, no, you I do not want to see the sore. And for anyone and for if this makes it on do not look up what it looks like on Google images.

Scott Benner 1:09:29
What should they not Google? A saddle sores okay. Yeah, I don't know saddle sores yet? Do not. But real quick, make sure you click on the links for the advertisers before you Google saddle sores because I don't want you to start vomiting before you've done the other things I've asked you to do run the ads. Cuz everyone's gonna look now I'm not I just want you to know I will not be looking. I don't care and I don't want to know. But that's fantastic, Cory. I really appreciate this. Thank you so much. If you hold on a second I'll tell you about those other episodes and you can

Corey 1:10:03
okay yeah, I was actually one that you bought that

Scott Benner 1:10:05
one on one second

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