“Professional road cycling is hard yakka and anyone who has been through it would tell you that. I would not have been a professional if it wasn’t for Team Type 1. Having that extra purpose helped me to push through the suffering. If you have some kind of purpose and some kind of meaning behind all the pain you are experiencing, it makes you more motivated to push through all that and deal with it.

“I don’t think I would have had the strength and fortitude to push through all the bullshit and all the hours and hours of training on the bike. I would have struggled to find the purpose behind it all if I was riding for a team that was just selling computer games or TV screens or whatever.

“But going out to speak to people about diabetes when we were at races gave me a tangible reminder of the purpose of what we were doing. You go to an event and you speak about the team, and your own journey about living with diabetes and how you faced all the challenges you’ve had. You see the hope and how inspired people are by hearing that it is possible to race bikes, it is possible to travel the world, it is possible to do whatever you dream about while also living with Type 1 diabetes,” he adds.

“Seeing other people realise that means a lot to me and it motivated me for a long time.”

The most humbling experience of his role as inspirational speaker to other people with Type 1 diabetes came when Morris was competing in the UCI’s Tour du Rwanda in 2012.

The trip opened his eyes to the fact that he had actually been very lucky to be diagnosed with the condition in a country where getting access to insulin was not a concern.