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I looked at the extended weather forecast for Rotterdam and it looks like I\u2019m in luck. The weather, according to CNN weather is supposed to be great over the entire weekend, and race day should be perfect — mostly sunny and 45\u00b0F – 58\u00b0F. You can\u2019t ask for better running weather.<\/p>\n

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This will be – by far – the best weather I\u2019ve had for a race. The TA Marathon<\/a> I ran last April was hot (72\u00b0F and humid) and the Tiberias Marathon<\/a> was even hotter. The news of the weather has put me in such a good mood that I\u2019m not letting the other events of the day get me down.<\/p>\n

I usually buy my international travel health insurance through my travel agent. It costs me a little more than it does a non-diabetic but it\u2019s not a big deal. \u00a0Until, my friend Yaron, who\u2019s running the marathon with me (probably a little ahead of me actually), informed me, it hadn\u2019t occured to me that I would need \u00a0special insurance for this trip. Apparently regular travel insurance doesn\u2019t cover extreme sports like marathon running, and special insurance of this sort is not sold by travel agents.\u00a0 Yaron gave me the number of an insurance broker (a marathon runner himself) who sells extreme sport policies and told me to ask for the woman in charge of travel.<\/p>\n

So I left myself a note on my computer keyboard to call the insurance broker first thing in the morning, which is exactly what I did.<\/p>\n

The woman on the phone told me I was the fifth person to call about insurance for the Rotterdam marathon this morning. She asked for my travel and personal information and credit card number. As I was getting my card I mentioned that I have type 1 diabetes and would probably needed to pay a little bit more than a non-diabetic. She paused for a minute and then told me she needed to talk to someone at the insurance company and that she would call me back soon.\u00a0 She did call back, but I missed it.\u00a0 She left me a message, \u201cI\u2019m sorry but we won\u2019t be able to insure you.\u201d<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t really know what to do (I still don\u2019t) so I called the local JDRF chapter hoping they could help me out. I haven\u2019t gotten an answer yet but I\u2019m not very optimistic. I don\u2019t think they get many requests for marathon insurance. I may try to contact the organizers of the race but I don\u2019t think that will do me much good.<\/p>\n

This kind of thing would usually get me very angry but not today. \u00a0I\u2019m in a good mood. I may be an uninsurable diabetic but I\u2019m a happy one. And I\u2019m going to run with or without insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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