The Road Ahead

Team Type 1 is an amateur 8-person cycling team composed of people with Type-1 diabetes. They raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), and their long-term goal is to help people with diabetes live better through adopting a healthy lifestyle and optimal glucose monitoring habits.

Team Type 1 wore the FreeStyle Navigator System and used it to continuously monitor their glucoses to improve their diabetes management. They were able to look at trends and have access to the alarms during intense exercise (training and the race), observe their patterns during recovery, eating different food, during little sleep and in different schedules. They wore the FreeStyle Navigator system as part of a clinical study, pre-FDA approval in 2006 and again in 2007.

The 25-year-old Race across America calls itself the World’s Toughest Bicycle Race. It’s a grueling coast-to-coast ultra marathon for both professional and amateur cycling teams. The race starts in Oceanside, CA and ends in Atlantic City, NJ (3,053 miles).

Well, Team Type 1, with their decades of training and experience, smashed the record in the Eight-Person Corporate Team category, coming across the finish line a whopping 22 hours before the second-place team in their category, and only 3 minutes behind the first place professional Four-Person Team in 2006. Their dedication and hard work continued as they came back in 2007 and not only smashed there own record by 21 minutes (new record 5 days 15 hours and 43 minutes) but also came in first in the race for all categories.

Monique Hanley, one of the TT1 riders who came all the way from Australia summed it up like this, "By using the Navigator system during the RAM, I was able to manage my glucose levels during the intense bike race like never before."

The ultimate goal for TT1 is to form a professional team and compete in the Tour de France in 5-7 years.

Learn more about Team Type 1 and their use of the FreeStyle Navigator System.

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Movement of the sensor support mount or excessive perspiration at the sensor insertion site due to activities like vigorous exercise or bumping against objects may lead to poor adhesion of the support mount to the skin and cause the sensor to dislodge. If the sensor dislodges due to the sensor support adhesive failing to adhere to the skin, you may get unreliable results or no results. The system may not provide a warning in such circumstances. Choose the proper sensor insertion site when inserting the sensor and prepare the site by following the instructions for site preparation.

Your blood glucose level must be between 60 and 300 mg/dL (3.3 and 16.6 mmol/L) to be able to perform calibration tests. If your blood glucose level is changing rapidly, you may not be able to calibrate the system. For example, during a meal or exercise, your glucose levels may vary rapidly. Try to time your sensor insertion so that your calibration times do not coincide with your regular meal or exercise activities.

The FreeStyle Navigator system is suitable for normal everyday activities, including exercise, bathing and swimming (3 feet depth).

Safety Information: Users should read all of the instructions in the User's Guide before using FreeStyle Navigator^® Continuous Glucose Monitoring System. Adjustments to treatment should be done under the guidance of the user's healthcare team.

Indications for Use: The FreeStyle Navigator^® Continuous Glucose Monitoring System is indicated for continually recording interstitial fluid glucose levels in people (ages 18 and older) with diabetes mellitus for the purpose of improving diabetes management. Readings and alarms about glucose levels from the FreeStyle Navigator^® Continuous Glucose Monitoring System are not intended to replace traditional blood glucose monitoring. Before adjusting therapy for diabetes management based on results and alarms from the FreeStyle Navigator^® Continuous Glucose Monitoring System, traditional blood glucose tests must be performed. The FreeStyle Navigator^® Continuous Glucose Monitoring System provides a built-in blood glucose meter to confirm the continuous glucose result.

The FreeStyle Navigator^® Continuous Glucose Monitoring System provides real-time readings, graphs, trends, and glucose alarms directly to the user. The FreeStyle Navigator^® Continuous Glucose Monitoring System is intended to be used in home settings to aid people with diabetes in predicting and detecting episodes of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia and in clinical settings to aid healthcare professionals in evaluating glucose control. The FreeStyle Navigator^® Continuous Glucose Monitoring System is available only by prescription.

Contraindications: The FreeStyle Navigator^® Continuous Glucose Monitoring System must be removed prior to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

Prescription Device: Federal law restricts the sale of this device by or on order of a physician.

Warnings/Precautions: Infection, inflammation, or bleeding at the glucose sensor insertion site are possible risks of inserting a sensor into your skin. If you believe your results are not reliable, or are inconsistent with how you feel, perform a blood glucose mode test to measure your glucose. If the problem continues, discard the old sensor and insert a new sensor. Performance of the system under conditions of fluctuating hydration levels such as during renal dialysis has not been evaluated. Unintended dislodging of the sensor due to excessive perspiration, exercise, or bumping, may cause unreliable or no results without warning. A portion of the membrane polymer will remain in the skin each time the sensor is removed. Although no health effects were observed or reported in clinical studies, the long term effects of the sensor membrane fragments remaining in the skin have not been determined. Performance of the FreeStyle Navigator system has not been evaluated in pregnant women.