Episode 356 - Six Marathons in Two Years: Steven Cannady on T1D, Race Prep, and Living Big (Copy)

About this episode

Steven Cannady shares his journey of running six marathons in two years while managing Type 1 diabetes.

Steven Cannady was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes on December 21, 2004, during Christmas break, in eighth grade, after eating a family-size box of Fruit Loops and spending hours on the kitchen floor before his mom got home from work. Rob was diagnosed one week later on New Year's Day 2005. Neither of them knew this until they were halfway through this conversation. Twenty-one years later, they're both living actively with T1D and talking openly about it, and it shows. Steven has run six marathons in roughly two years, starting with the New York City Marathon in 2024 as part of the Beyond Type 1 team. He just earned a spot on Team Abbott for the Sydney Marathon, a seriously competitive field. But the race that meant the most wasn't the fastest one — it was the Raleigh-Durham marathon earlier this year, where he ran slowly through the streets of the city that raised him, stopped to talk to friends at mile markers, and decided that running doesn't always have to be about the clock. This episode gets into the nuts and bolts of marathon prep with T1D — carb loading with Maurten, skipping insulin entirely on race day, why Steven would rather run high than risk going low at mile 20, and…

People in this episode

Guest: Steven Cannady

Topics covered

• Type 1 diabetes
• marathon running
• race preparation
• health management
• personal stories

Keywords

• Type 1 diabetes
• marathon
• race prep
• carb loading
• time-in-range

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Beyond Type 1, Team Abbott

Places: New York City, Raleigh-Durham

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