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Episode 21: Running Toward a World Record: Brodie’s Type 1 Story
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In this episode of the Type 1 Club Podcast, Jacqui chats with Brodie Sharpe — runner, advocate, and founder of TypeRun_
Diagnosed at age 15, Brodie shares his personal journey from learning to manage life with Type 1 to launching a global Guinness World Record attempt. Along the way, he has found purpose, strength, and a sense of belonging through movement and connection.
Whether you're a runner, parent, or just looking for inspiration, Brodie’s story is a powerful reminder of how one step at a time can lead to something extraordinary.
🏅 World Record Attempt:
Beginning August 26, Brodie will take on an incredible challenge — attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the most consecutive marathons run by a male living with Type 1 diabetes.
That’s 26 marathons in 26 days.
And on Day 27 (September 21), he’ll keep pushing, competing in the Western Sydney Half Ironman, with his brother by his side.
Living with Type 1 for nearly six years, Brodie’s mission is clear: raise $26,000 for the Type 1 Foundation and prove that life with diabetes has no finish line.
💬 What We Cover:
- Brodie’s diagnosis story and navigating life with T1D from age 15
- How running helped him regain control and confidence
- The story behind the Guinness World Record relay and what it meant
- The creation of TypeRun_ and the power of community
- Using movement as a tool for physical and mental wellbeing
- Advice for anyone wanting to take that first step — on the track or in their T1D journey
🔗 Connect with Brodie:
Follow Brodie on Instagram: Typerun_
Donate here
Further Resources:
Type 1 Foundation Website
Follow us on Instagram
Join the Facebook Group
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Transcript
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The content provided in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Reliance on any information provided by this podcast is solely at your own risk.
Introduction to the Type 1 Club Podcast
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Welcome to the Type 1 Club. Whether you're a parent grappling with a new diagnosis, a caregiver seeking guidance, or simply someone wanting to learn more about Type 1 diabetes, this podcast is for you.
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Together, let's dispel myths, break down barriers, and build a community of understanding and resilience. Join us as we embark on this journey together because with knowledge, compassion and support, no one should ever feel alone in managing type 1 diabetes.
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Welcome to the Type 1 Club.
Meet Host Jackie Kidman
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Hey everybody and welcome to the Type 1 Club. I am your host, Jackie Kidman. I am a Type 1 mum to a boy named Harvey who was diagnosed in June 2022 the age of seven.
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Today i have a guest.
Introducing Brodie Sargent
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um His name is Brodie Sargent. Some of you in the type one sort of world might already know about Brodie and well, you're about to learn all about Brodie. I'm kind of, I've watched a little bit of his stuff um and followed a little bit of his journey on Instagram and he's a very interesting character.
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I mean that in the nicest way, Brodie. First of all, welcome to the podcast and thank you so much for your time. Hello everyone. Yeah, thank you for having me. I'm really excited, a little bit nervous, but I'm really excited to do this. So yes, hello everyone.
Brodie's Diagnosis Story
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So Brodie, can you just introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you and also about when you were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes? Yeah, definitely. So um I'm Brodie Sargent, obviously. um I'm 21 years old.
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Everyone says i look a little bit older than that, but yeah, still 21. I've been diabetic since 2019 in September of 2019 so when I was 15 years old in year nine of high school.
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I was born in Penrith but I moved to Mudgee when I was two so I would like to say I'm Mudgee raised and yeah if it's a little town out in central New South Wales.
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It was only like 9,000 people when I first moved there so I think it's grown to like Probably more than 20,000 now, but so you know, that yeah brodie' Brodie's treating a hypo as well. I'm trying to keep it in the control part of it.
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Is that maybe a little bit the nerves kicking in as well, Brodie? Yeah, that but no, I'm all right. You're all right. So if you hear the alarm, everybody knows. Yours, yeah. Hopefully no more. um Yeah, raised in Mudgie.
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And then, yeah, year nine of high school. got diagnosed and I was the only one in my family, my whole family tree, we've done the research to be diabetic. So that was a pleasant surprise. We didn't really know what was going on. and At the time, i didn't even know. I probably knew about two or three other people in my whole school that were diabetic and in Mudgee, essentially.
Lifestyle Changes Post-Diagnosis
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And, yeah, i just remember when I was first diagnosed being like, Mum, what even is this? And Mum didn't know, Dad didn't know. Tell us about what were the symptoms that made you kind of Yeah, so I was like a larger kid in high school and I'd stripped all this weight off me. I'd probably lost about 10 kilos in like a month's span.
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And I was like trying to get into training at the time. So was thinking, how good is this and all that? Like, look how skinny am. And then I was obviously going to the toilet a lot, like sometimes like eight times through the night waking up.
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Just going to the toilet, drinking so much water and milk. I remember one night I drank like a full three liter milk. And obviously that would cause a lot of hassles in the family. I was getting in trouble for drinking so much. i was like, I'm just thirsty, but...
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And then I was driving somewhere and we kept having to pull over for me to go to the toilet. And my brother, he's like looking up on his phone, like all my symptoms. And he's going, oh, it says yeah you've got diabetes. i was like, nah no, no, wouldn't. I wouldn't. wouldn't And then a couple of weeks later, I ended up going to the hospital. And yeah, they told me, yeah, you're probably diabetic. And I was like, well, yeah, that's fair enough. My brother guessed it.
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My older brother, younger brother. Yeah, he's two years older than me, but... but incredibly close he's probably my best friend so oh I love that yeah um I've got two boys so I love hearing yeah of yeah that closeness of siblings wow so you went to the hospital were you very unwell or you just like yeah I wouldn't say I wasn't like I don't remember feeling sick or or unwell as such I ah definitely remember there was a change in not how I felt but how I acted like
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I would sometimes just be craving
Realizing Diabetes' Lifelong Impact
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sugar. Obviously, now I know it was like I was having a hypo, but like I'd be doing stuff with my dad and just be like, oh, dad, I've got to stop. I've got to, like, i need cor cordial or I need something. Like, I just feel like I need it.
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And that was the only real thing that I can kind of remember. And obviously the weight, but I just put that down to me training heaps. So as I was loving that part. But yeah, not not incredibly feeling ill, but definitely like a little bit.
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And you weren't you weren't DKA or anything, obviously. I don't think so. i can't really remember that part. I know when I first went, I didn't go to the hospital first up. I had a doctor's appointment that my mum booked.
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And when I went in there, they did the finger prick and it was... They said it was like 37 or something crazy. And to me, like, I don't know what that meant, but all of them were kind of like, all the staff were quite panicked and stuff. And i was like, oh, that must not be good.
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But then in Mudgee, the hospital wasn't that big at the time. So I had to drive to Dubbo, a close town that's a lot bigger that night. And I was like on the drive, I kind of realised like, oh, if I've got to go to the bigger hospital right away, this might be kind of serious. But I'm not sure if I was in DKA I think I might have. don't know.
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Well, it sounds like you might have been close. Yeah, I would have been on the on the borderline if I was. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Okay. And so you get to the hospital, so obviously, you know, that you then you're admitted and it's yeah like, okay, I'm 15 years old and I have to learn this kind of critical side of life now. did it Did it kick in for you that this was sort of a lifelong thing?
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Not at the time. I remember thinking like mum kind of, because dad was working at the time, so mum drove me over to Dubbo and she said, oh, don't look it up online. i don't want you to look at anything. I just want you to wait and see what the doctors say and all that. So I was like, oh yeah, just carefree kind of kid. Like, all right, cool.
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But it it was the first week of school holidays. So I was kind of bummed out about that. But anyway, yeah, we got to the hospital and it didn't really hit me until was maybe on the second or third day that I was there. One of the doctors come in and he said, just general conversation, like, oh what do you want to do when you grow up?
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And I was like, oh, I think I said firefighter at the time. And he said, well, that's good that you don't want to be a um pilot because you can't do that with diabetes. And I just remember thinking like, oh, that's weird. Like, that's a random thing to say to me. And I was like, once he kind of said that, I thought like, oh, this is probably actually going to affect my future. This is going to be like quite a ah big thing in my life. And that kind of from that point on, I was just kind of like,
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oh, this might be a bit more extreme than what I've kind of thought.
Career Journey: Tattoo Artist to Hospitality
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Wow, that's an interesting conversation, isn't it, to have with a doctor around, you know. Yeah. Clanny didn't say, oh, well, you can't do that. like all you know yeah Yeah, it was weird. it thought ah didn't I don't think he meant anything by it, he just, yeah, it got me definitely thinking about it. but Are you a firefighter?
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No, I went on a very different career path. i um I was a tattoo artist for a little bit. I saw something on your Instagram about art and I thought, oh, maybe he's an artist.
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ah Yeah, I want to an artist a little bit. Yeah, I used to, um back in Moji, I started doing tattoos just from my house, essentially, a bit rogue. But then I moved to Wollongong when I turned 18 and I got a job in an actual studio.
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And it's like an apprenticeship kind of thing, but I only ended up staying for one year. So I was half a tattoo artist, but now I just work in hospitality. So nothing too special. Nothing too special. We need we need those people.
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Yeah, I'll do my job. Yeah, very good. Very good. Just to go back when you said that at the time there was ah you did there was actually a few other people in your town that were diabetic.
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Were they older, younger? I remember. Yeah. I didn't know it at the time, but once I was diagnosed and I kind of learned what a, like a CGM was that a chick in my roll call had a CGM.
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So then I was like, Oh, that's what that is. Like, Oh, there you go. So then she was one of the diabetics. And then I knew of a friend, I think she was a year older than me that was diabetic, but we weren't close or anything. I didn't ever ask her about it. I just knew that she was diabetic.
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And then my mom's best friend's son had, maybe a couple of years back, been diagnosed diabetic too. So I knew that this diabetic thing existed and these people were diabetic, but I had zero clue like what they did or I wasn't really close to them in that sense.
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Yeah, there's definitely more diabetics that I've met now that I knew back then that are diabetic. like now and I just didn't realize it back at the time but yeah there's definitely a fair few in Mudgee I think yeah and do you think you notice more diabetics because of the the tech that they wear or do you think it just comes up in conversation now sometimes a lot of people will tell me now like with what I do on Instagram and stuff like they'll come to me and say that I'm diabetic as well which is awesome but I do notice especially walking around Wollongong and in Mudgee a lot more tech and
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pumps and stuff I tend to see lot more pumps now like I never knew what that was and Yes, I see them everywhere. it's It's nice to see sometimes. Yeah. ah Thank you for sharing that diagnosis story.
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And the adjusting, so 15-year-old, gosh, I could imagine that that would have been a little bit of an adjustment. I mean, you were already annoyed that it was school holidays and it was taking up your pregnant school holiday time, let alone then kind of going, okay, well, now I have to inject
Teenage Challenges with Diabetes
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and yeah tell all my mates. And how how was that for a for a teenager? Yeah.
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At the time, I remember like the, couple of months just after being diagnosed, my mum, she took it, she probably took it worse than what I did as a kid.
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And she, i remember her saying she was like, now that we've talked about it afterwards, how she was so anxious and how she was like, which you'd probably know how scared she was to let me out of her sight and stuff like that. And I remember her, she, she literally learnt like everything there was to know about diabetes for me and,
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and kind of not kept all her knowledge from me, but just helped me in that way and just didn't really, didn't really like stress me with the whole, everything that she was doing behind the scenes that I didn't really know about.
00:11:25
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Yeah, she just knew everything. She just kind of not took control, but definitely helped me in that sense, trying to like ah adjust to life. And like, I yeah ah just kind of just kept living as a normal kid. Like I don't really...
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It definitely made me a lot more self-conscious in high school and stuff, especially wearing the patch and that. And I was already quite like a like a self-conscious kid. And I remember like always trying to pull my arm, because I wear it on my arm, always pulling my sleeve over it in high school and stuff. And but people would ask me, and I just remember getting really always embarrassed about it.
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Not embarrassed, but just... you know like a bit little bit nervous to tell them what it is and stuff and but yeah my my dad and my brother they kind of like they didn't go as hardcore as what my mom did they kind of kept treating me the same as what I was before they obviously like they learned everything and they they looked after me in a sense but they didn't stress as much as my mum and just kind of kept me doing all the things I was doing before. so Oh, yes.
00:12:25
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Mums, we take it on. They're stressed. They're all stressed. It's good that they're stressed. I'm not saying that dads don't, but yeah definitely, i you know i know, I know exactly. I can just completely resonate with what you're saying about your mum. and Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Yeah, my dad and my brother just kind of kept me doing doing everything I was doing before, so I never really become...
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different in the sense like everything just kind of flowed on obviously I looked out for a bit more and had to change a lot of things but it didn't really affect my childhood as much as what it could have I think oh wow and so you went on to tech like to a CGM pretty much straight away always was that yeah within the first two weeks or so I remember getting onto a CGM I'm still not on a pump or anything like that I just could never really wrap my head around it and I didn't want to be attached to a pump and all this. But, yeah, I've always had the CGM from about two weeks into the diagnosis, which is a game changer really because those first two weeks were rough. off Oh, yeah. we had We had four months of doing the finger pricks with Harvey.
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Oh, really? And then we went on to a CGM and then it was like it was rough in the the transition onto the to that was kind of a bit rough for me because I almost had too much information.
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Yeah. yeah And so I was like, oh, my God, that's what's happening in between every, like, the four hours. Yeah, sound like my mum right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Always checking in. And then you get this control and, yeah, it's tricky. It's really... It does, yeah. It places a lot more of a burden, especially on the people that are watching it for you as well. They're just...
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24-hour access, sometimes too much. is Too much, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you've got to learn to kind of go, okay. How did you, I wonder, maybe this is a conversation more for your mum, but like when you, because my kind of view as ah as a mum, I mean, Harvey's 10, so, you know, I was kind of like, well, look, I feel like I can take it on.
00:14:21
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for him and until he's ready to take it on and, you know, he's going to have this for the rest of his life. So yeah if I can take just a little, you know, a little time ah taking that stress and that off him, um you know, that's, I just feel like that was what, that's what my role is.
00:14:38
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How did she go between, because you're 21 now, like yeah I'm assuming she's taken, and dropped a little bit of the reins and a little bit, or how does, how did she do that? What's her role now?
Mother's Support and Independence
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She definitely stayed very up to date with it right up until I moved. And then now that I live four hours away from home, she was kind of just forced to drop back a little bit.
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And I remember like, especially in the first couple of months I moved away, she would text me like, like probably multiple times a day saying, oh, your levels are this, are you right? or Or wake up like during the night and stuff, she'd be calling me and stuff.
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And yeah, I think she probably adjusted. Not as well as what I did moving away from home. I think that probably added a lot to her stress. I think she probably still does stress, but I know she says a lot of times now that shell she sees like that I have a low and she'll go to text me, but she'll hold back and just try let me figure it out myself.
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Sometimes she still texts me, which is good to say. like it's I'm not saying it's a bad thing that she messaged me at all. I love it. but I don't love it, but you know what mean? Don't ignore the four.
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The four early warning signs of type 1 diabetes. Excessive thirst, frequent urination, unexplained weight loss and extreme fatigue. If you or someone you know is experiencing these symptoms, don't wait.
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Get checked by a healthcare professional. Early detection and treatment are key to managing type 1 diabetes effectively. Yeah, you know that she's got your back almost like and it's sort of that, it's almost like that sort of, that safety net, you know, that I think i think mums, when when their children move out anyway, it's tough, let alone having and a child with, um you know, yeah like with it with a chronic illness that you're like, okay, well, yeah, like he's got an extra thing that, you know, that...
00:16:32
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When he was under your roof, you know, like when you were under the roof together that she would kind of feel like she had this extra sort of safety net, let alone. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. And now it's there it's all out the window. But I think she's definitely a lot better.
00:16:43
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more calm i well I think she is from the outside looking in a lot more calm about it now definitely so okay so you're now 21 and you're you've come up with this idea this challenge this um to well tell us tell us what what's what is this what what are you doing that no other you're trying to break a world record that no other type one diabetic has done
Guinness World Record Attempt
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Yeah, yeah. so I probably started running little bit like to two years ago or maybe I just fell in love with this whole idea of running and running really big distances and just seeing what I can achieve essentially. So I was i was looking at all these Guinness World Records probably about Christmas time.
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just looking for just something to do and I found that they put a new section then a new um like category such like they put diabetics in their own category for running um so yeah I saw the most consecutive marathons for a diabetic what yeah type one diabetic male had not been set yet I was like oh I messaged them because in November last year I did the the 50 for five like 50ks for five days so it's but essentially six marathons in five days and messaged them i was like oh i've done essentially six marathons you know like can i have the record it's mine you know and they messaged back eventually and they said like that's not enough they said i'm not sure they're a little bit blurry they're hard to kind of work with but okay hang on just let me just go back
00:18:22
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So i just find it funny when you're saying like emailing like the Guinness Book of Records. so So ah you're looking on a website, yeah were you? And then in that website they have like if you think that you you want to attempt something, you email them or you contact them. i Essentially, yeah. It's the full like the Guinness World Record website. They just have you can search up all different records and just random records. So I was just looking for all these diabetic records and it said,
00:18:50
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like most consecutive marathons for a type 1 diabetic male and it said not set like no no record essentially was there one set for a female no i don't think so i don't yeah i don't think yeah so if you want to start running marathons it's it's open it's not me not me i'm not the type one but yeah someone else out there ah um i'm not the runner either Yeah, and then, yes, I messaged them. That's when I so yeah said to them, oh, I've done five or six in a row.
00:19:22
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And then they take take quite a while to get back to you. But they said the record now is 25. they said the record now is twenty five but I'm not sure if they mean the record you have to do is to beat 25 for us to consider it a record or someone's done 25.
00:19:39
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Right. So that's what i put out in my video because i didn't if someone had done 25, which is incredible, I didn't want to not accredit them. So I thought, well, I'll just say someone's done 25, and if not, that's even better. I'll do 26 either way.
00:19:55
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so Wow. Okay. So your target is to, so in, in mid August, is that right? When are you looking at starting there?
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Yeah. The first day will be the 26th of August. Okay. So 26th of August, you 26 marathons. Yeah, it kind of just worked out really luckily there. Yeah. But yeah, 26 consecutive marathons. So day after day, run a marathon.
00:20:18
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And then just happened to be that me and my brother booked a half Ironman for the 21st of September. So yeah. That'll be the 27th day. Wow. Just something little extra, yeah. Okay, okay. that's um That is a lot of running.
00:20:34
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Yeah, yeah, it will be, yeah. Wow, okay. so running, where are you doing this? Most of it will be in Wollongong, where i live now, but I'm definitely going back to Mudgee for, I think, the first weekend of the whole event because I have a lot of, obviously, friends and sponsors in Mudgee and stuff, so.
00:20:52
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Mudgee is really hilly, so I don't really want to spend too much time there, but I will be running in Mudgee definitely two days. And then I'll just be playing it by a year. The rest of it will definitely be in Wollongong or close to Wollongong.
00:21:05
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So, I mean, look, the prep I could imagine for running, regardless of being a type 1 diabetic, to run a just one marathon would be a lot. How do you prep yourself for this sort of event?
00:21:21
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Yeah, I think there's a lot, obviously a lot of time on your feet is a given, like you have to, but I don't think it's as much time as what people would think. So I'm kind of like over the whole event, I'm going to run 1,100 Ks or something close to that.
00:21:36
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And at the moment, I'm only running about near 100 a week. and But most of it comes down to um like strength and resistance training, I think, kind of just trying to build up your muscles and your tendons and all that to have a lot of obviously strength and resistance. And because if they start falling apart, that's where you kind of find the issue. Like I know I can run essentially, so I don't really have to,
00:22:03
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work on the my technique or anything like that it's more just making my body as resilient as possible
Managing Diabetes During Marathons
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and so that's the physical aspect what about fuel the fuel and the yeah your levels and yeah like how are you how are you managing that That's the harder part. Luckily, now after launching all this, I've been in contact with a diabetes educator and a nutritionist, like a sports nutritionist who are working together with me to help a lot.
00:22:33
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But before I had them, a lot of it was just, I kind of figured it out on my own that if I could start at a base level, like of my BGL, I would have about 40 minutes of running time before it would start to drop.
00:22:47
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So I would just bring lollies in my pocket or the later down the track I got into running gels and stuff. And essentially all I'm doing is just I'm just working on a timer. So I've got 40 minutes between stops or around 8km or so. I'm just like 8km, pin it, have some sugar.
00:23:06
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and then just repeat, rinse and repeat. Yep. And so you're theoretically doing three and a half, four hours of running a day, yeah? Yeah, yeah. Probably be a little bit more than four. My base level is about four now, so it might be four to, yeah, four to five, six.
00:23:22
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Who knows? And then so other than just the the like the glucose that your body will need, are you then having to do any insulin and then a little bit of food? Or how do you, other than keeping your levels up, do you also giving yourself some insulin?
00:23:42
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Yeah, not so much when I'm running. like Because I use the long-lasting insulin as well that has that 12-hour span, that is kind of what I run on.
00:23:54
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like as i'm running so it's always my sugars are always dropping it's very rare if i get like a hyper or go higher the high one score yeah yeah so i'm all wet but after like after i finish the marathons i obviously have to eat quite a fair bit as well so that's when i'm insulin and and beforehand but not really so much In the actual. Right. So you're doing these runs, I'm assuming you start in the morning.
00:24:20
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Yeah, that's the plan. Yeah. yeah And then you you're not you don't have basically any active insulin other than your opticulin. Yeah. i Yeah. Sometimes if i start if I start early, like because I'm on the 12-hour...
00:24:38
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like two times a day each 12 hours sometimes i'll i'll run on the back end of my long lasting but if i start early in the morning and then i just won't have my morning needle until after i finish the run but yeah so it swaps and changes a bit but most normally i'm always just running on the I find it so interesting what our, like what the BGLs do for different types of exercise. Like I, yeah.
00:25:06
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Yeah. Yeah. They're all over the shop. I wouldn't, yeah, they're not, it's not smooth sailing, but sometimes you get lucky on the odd run that it'll just cruise. but And who's your team that's supporting you to monitor? Are you monitoring this? because i could Because I could think that like mentally you need to be kind of like more focused on Yeah, as I as i run, it's it's me monitoring it. Like, no one else has it.
00:25:31
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Like, my CGM details, or my mum does, but she's not running with me. So, no, it's always me, but I've always... Back when I started running, like I didn't really start running until after I was diabetic anyway. So it's kind of just a normal to me. Like I've always done it. I'm always, it it pairs to my watch too. So I'm always just kind of glancing at it. It's not, yeah.
00:25:51
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So you're looking at, so yeah, you're not only looking at like your time, your distance, you're also looking at your, like your your VGL. Yeah. And it's, it's a lot of, it's more just the arrows that I'm looking at too. Like it swaps and changes, but yeah, if I'm starting to get a down arrow, then I start to start to act and think about it a bit more.
00:26:09
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So you've applied to Guinness World Records to attempt this. Does someone come and verify it or how does it? You have to pay a lot of money to get someone there. So yeah.
00:26:20
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So it's more so now that they've shown me what the, like the record is essentially that i have to be, they've given me all this, these guidelines that i have to do and have to abide by.
00:26:31
Speaker
And then, I'll have to acquire all this evidence essentially over the whole span of it. And then I have to submit it all on the, like after I finish it. So it might, like I might not officially get the record until two or three months after i actually do it. It just depends on how long they take to go through all the evidence and then hopefully all the evidence is there.
00:26:53
Speaker
and give it to me so yeah yeah if I do something wrong I'll be spewed but that's pretty full-on isn't it because you're sort of like yeah if you you don't want have to try and do it again no no hopefully not be doing it again so yeah hence why they probably wouldn't also take your your six marathons in five days because you yeah and yeah I didn't have enough evidence that was one of the things that because I didn't I wasn't prepared for that what they needed and stuff like that but yeah there's lot that goes into it yeah And so you're going for the world record, but you're also raising money.
Fundraising for Type 1 Foundation
00:27:24
Speaker
Yes. So tell us a bit. So you you're raising money for, know, I saw that was the Type 1 Foundation.
00:27:29
Speaker
Yeah. And for anything else or? No, no, just the Type 1 Foundation. I thought I'm starting on the 26th of August. It's 26 marathons. So 26 grand. It kind of has a nice ring to it. So I was like, that works for me. 26 grand. Yeah.
00:27:45
Speaker
Why not? And we're already at, I think we're just near four grand now. And I'm still, I know there's another donation of three and a half grand that's yet to hit the account. So ah can't do that maths that quickly, but we're near six or whatever it is. Yeah.
00:27:58
Speaker
So it's building good, but hopefully, hopefully a lot more comes in as I'm actually running. I think it will. Hopefully. Yeah. Once people see that the blood, sweat and tears, it's throwing the money at you. to Yeah. We'll say, hope empathy whatever happens, whatever happens.
00:28:14
Speaker
ah Brodie, that is so amazing. I do often kind of think what possesses people to do stuff like this? Have you always been a little bit of an extremist or?
00:28:27
Speaker
No, no. I would say like, no, yeah. If you ask if you ask my mum and dad who's the extreme son, it would be my brother all the way. he's He's done everything under the sun there is to do that's crazy. But I've just, I don't know, just got hooked on that.
00:28:42
Speaker
Yeah.
Motivation and Awareness for Type 1 Diabetes
00:28:44
Speaker
like i just feel like it's my purpose i feel like i owe it to myself to do something for people like myself really so it's not yeah to me i wouldn't call it like an extremist like i don't really think there's no danger in it like i'm just going out running a few k's and sleeping but so yeah i just it's yeah it's not really an extreme thing to me it's just like i have to do it just don't think there's any other choice i have like there's Yeah, i just have to Yes, absolutely.
00:29:13
Speaker
And do you sort of feel like I can imagine, I think it's so inspiring for like, you know, we sort of started this podcast by someone saying, you know, like the doctor saying to you, what do you want to be when you grow up?
00:29:23
Speaker
But I guess, and then kind of like, oh, it's a good thing you didn't choose that or, you know, like it's almost like kind of that barrier. I guess it's that, inspiration that we have over, I think particularly for for a mum that, you know, sees these amazing and um awesome things that type 1 diabetics are doing and just knowing that, you know, really nothing can hold hold them back if that's what they they want. I mean, they're even, you can actually even fly a plane now.
00:29:51
Speaker
um Yeah. so Yeah, I've seen that too, yeah. And i I think that's regardless of um whether you're running one marathon or 26, it's Plus an Ironman.
00:30:02
Speaker
um You know, I love stories like this. I love showing like my son sort of yeah these people that are just like, look at this guy. Like, you know, he loves running and and he's doing this or, you know, like doesn't even have to be about sport or, you know, activity, but just about that raising awareness. And, you know, even by just being proud to show the tech, know,
00:30:24
Speaker
Definitely. There's a lot more inspiring things to do than just running. I think like there's a lot more people out there doing doing a lot more than what I'm doing. So that's, yeah. Well, yes, but they I think that all, it all adds up, you know. It does. Yeah, yeah definitely. it don'' You don't need to discount what you're doing because someone else might be doing something. You might feel like they're doing something more, you know, better. But um yeah, I think it it puts it into perspective of that we, you know,
00:30:51
Speaker
You know, we talk about you can do anything and, you know, yeah, you can really, if you put your mind to it. I think that's the great part. You literally can do anything you want. I think that's, yeah, that's definitely like a little bit of a motto. Like you literally can do anything. Brody, I'm so excited to see, I'm sure that everything will be documented and shared on your, is it mainly Instagram?
Social Media and Wider Reach
00:31:17
Speaker
Yeah. Mostly, yeah, I'm trying to get the Facebook working for the oldies and and a little bit of TikTok for the young ones, but it's it's all a struggle. So most of it's on Instagram. That's harder than running the marathon sometimes. It is. All the technology, keep it up with it. But yeah, if you if you want to um follow along, it's it's type run with an underscore at the end of it.
00:31:38
Speaker
Yeah. Or just search up Brodie Sargent. I'm sure you'll find me. But yeah, that's that's where most of it will be. Stories, everything. You'll see every side of me. Brodie, thank you so much for your time. I always like to wrap up these episodes with one question. You've kind of alluded to some ah some of the to some of the answers on this question. What's your go-to hypotreatment?
00:31:58
Speaker
It swaps and changes a lot, but at the moment I love the little milk bottles, like just in the variety packs, you know, like just a random party mix. Just the little milk bottles. For some reason I'm just loving them at the moment, but – I just think they're quick and easy and actually like the taste. But not many, everyone says I'm bit weird for that. So I don't know. But it could change. It could change. Yeah. Yeah. And when you're running?
00:32:20
Speaker
Probably the same. I've got a little lolly bag that I take running with me all the time. I'm always searching through for the milk bottles. It's just an assorted mix, you know, or whatever.
00:32:31
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, very good. Very good. Well, we wish you the best of luck from everyone from the, um, the type one foundation and the type one club. We wish you all the best in setting this Guinness world record.
00:32:43
Speaker
And we look forward to hearing along, you know, how it all goes and we might touch base afterwards and see how your body's holding up and, and what things you would have changed and, and all that sort of stuff.
00:32:55
Speaker
Oh, I appreciate say you taking the time to talk to me. and I love all the work that everyone does here. So it's, yeah, it's awesome. I can't be, ah I'm very proud to raise money for this foundation. So it's good. Oh, thank you so much, Brodie.
00:33:07
Speaker
All right.
Conclusion and Call to Action
00:33:08
Speaker
Well, that's it for another episode of the Type One Club. Everything about Brodie will be in the show notes and we look forward to hearing how he goes ah at the end of August.
00:33:18
Speaker
Take care, everybody. Until next time.
00:33:23
Speaker
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00:33:43
Speaker
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00:33:57
Speaker
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