October 10, 2009
Mari

Recently I was riding with my Type 3 training pal and fellow team mate, Sandria. It was a ride where she just listened to me and every once in a while she’d ask a probing or clarifying question. After quite some time, she’s a really good listener, which means as you know, I can be a pretty good talker, she said, “I think I have it, our tag line is: Women Who Get It.” It hit me like lightening! YES!! Team WILD is women who get it!

To “get it” what does that mean? When someone gets something, to me it means, understanding, deep understanding. It means empathy, heart connection, deep feeling of relating and a shared sense of purpose in life. We on Team WILD are women who are connected and who get it on at least three important levels.

The first level on which we get it is that expert coaching is where it’s at. We are women who are embracing an athletic lifestyle, and athletes, whether expert or novice, have coaches. And not just any coaches. Nope, we deserve and have amazing, dedicated, passionate, smart coaches. We have some of the best in the world coaching us. And why not?! May as well learn from the best!

The second level on which we get it is that expert diabetes education is crucial to athletic and wellness success. We are a team of women who have diabetes, and diabetes is a complex condition. One that is highly individual, ever fluxuating, and requires a mind-set of scientific experimentation. Whether new to the condition or if one has lived many, many years with diabetes, those who are most successful over time adopt a positive mental frame of continuous curiosity and flexibility. To assist in this mind-set, we have on our team, experts in exercise, women and diabetes. These experts work with us in a group setting using case study and lecture and they are available for intensive one-on-one support. Our experts help each woman better utilize her at-home diabetes medical support team.

The third and very important level on which we are women who get it, is that we get how important it is for us to be on a supportive and fun team of like-minded women with a goal! Each of our teams is a closed group of women that start together and finish together. This way, the team gets to know one another and support each other along the way. Each team keeps a team blog and each woman agrees to find a way to tell her story and the story of the team in a public way, as our mission with WILD is to start a revolutionary wave of women with diabetes who embrace exercise as a key component to overall health and wellness!



We get it that we will create this wave of well, fit and healthy women, one woman at a time, and one WILD team at a time!