🚣 Paddling away from the haters
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Winning the Oban Sea Kayak race in Scotland at the young age of nineteen, now twenty-three-year-old Dougal Glaisher has always felt at home on the ocean.
It was during the aforementioned race, however, that he suffered from blurred vision and feelings of faintness that led him to a Type-1 Diabetes diagnosis.
💪 I can, I will... Fast-forward to today and Dougal is breaking records, circumnavigating Britain in a kayak in only 40 days (a ~2,000 mile journey) – nearly a month faster than anyone else in history.
- Dougal made the expedition to raise funds for UK based charity Action4Diabetes. “I do what I want to do and my diabetes has to adapt to that," shared the athlete.
- He hopes to inspire other people with chronic diagnoses to stay active and go after their dreams.
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