While I was in Puerto Rico, I got an e-mail from a Baja1000 team asking me to help spread the word about their team, Desert Dingo Racing.   These guys are running the official World Diabetes Day car, a 1969 VW Beetle.  The race itself coincides with World Diabetes Day, so the timing is perfect.  Two members of the team have Type 2 diabetes, and a number of the other team members have strong histories of diabetes within their families.  The team has partnered up with the IDF (International Diabetes Foundation — Our friends), and are passing 100% of the funds they raise through their drive-a-thon on to the IDF.

I am currently falling asleep, and have just stumbled across the e-mail again (I gave it a star, and still  forgot to make the post.  I’m ashamed.).  Please just check them out at http://www.desertdingo.com/  and if you can, please make a donation to their effort.  They will be live-blogging and Twittering as they make their way down the Baja Penninsula in the race, which I think is pretty damn cool.

Scott, over at Scott’s Diabetes Journal has made a very good post about this effort if you need any more information about it and don’t want to get it from the Desert Dingo website.  You can find this post here.  Please check it out, and if you can, donate to the cause.  It’s a pretty cool one, ya know… diabetes and all…. :-p
Thanks,

_Tom.