Team Novo Nordisk is on a mission to inspire, educate and empower people affected by diabetes. Their professional cycling team is comprised completely of riders living with type 1 diabetes, and competes as a UCI Continental team. Phil Southerland is the founder (also living with diabetes) and first founded Team Type 1 to take on the grueling 3000 mile Race Across America in 2006.

An in-depth look at how ultra-endurance events place extreme and unique physiological demands on athletes. This podcast will feature athletes, and their support teams, talking about how they prepare and compete at the world's toughest events. Expect discussion around long-term preparation, nutrition, coping with environmental stressors and building psychologic toughness! 

Host: Nick Longworth has been hosting international sports technology and life science conferences for the last decade, and recently completed an MSc in Space Physiology at Kings College London.