# DN’s Running and Other Mishaps Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Sports & Exercise\ **Created:** [July 5, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/dn-s-running-and-other-mishaps-thread/4398 "2018-07-05T23:53:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 459
**Author:** ![Nickyghaleb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nickyghaleb](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Nickyghaleb)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/dn-s-running-and-other-mishaps-thread/4398/459 "2018-10-11T00:01:51Z")
> [@Eric](#): > > How hard is the effort? How is your heart rate? Are you out of breath? I’m sorry, @Eric. I asked you a question like 6 hours ago, and you were so quick to respond, and I”m _just_ getting to sit down to give you the information. I’ve been at a sprint for the ENTIRE TIME handling things you couldn’t even imagine… I actually punctured my vein with the meat thermometer… which I had just pulled out of a slightly undercooked breast of chicken. These are the kinds of things that are happening when you don’t hear from me. So intensity… It goes from being under control a good chunk of the time to my feeling desperate for a breath. A full chest. If that makes sense. This is the part I was talking about with the breathing. I’m just not crazy about that kind of breathing in water because I dislike feeling like I can’t take a breath any time. I’m not doing sprints or anything, but I”m moving along at a good clip for me, and sometimes I find myself out of breath. I pretty much have one speed once I start, and it’s … it’s work. I don’t know how to describe it any better. I’m not a swimmer. 🙄 > [@Nickyghaleb](#): > > Tell me about your BG before starting. > > 1. Was it stable and flat? > 2. What was your number? > 3. When was the last food you ate before the workout? > 4. Did you have coffee? BG was at about a 190 when I started. Now I can’t remember what —. I can’t remember why it was rising. I decided not to do any insulin though and just let it push up so that I could get into the water and feel comfortable that I wasn’t going to crash. 1. No… it was rising. 2. 190ish. 3. About 3/4 of an applesauce… maybe less (10 grams of carbs?) … as I headed out to the pool. 😬 I forgot about that. 4. No coffee, thank you very much. 4 coke zeroes. But those don’t affect my blood sugar. KIDDING. ONE Coke Zero about 30 minutes before. But those don’t affect my blood sugar at all. I did 14 units of Levemir this morning and 7 at 3:00 pm. I ended up doing over 8 after the swim of novolog and finally had a coffee at 3… I brought a banana and applesauce and everything and expected to have the same kind of crash as yesterday but never did. I’ll see if I can include my graph… ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/fudiabetes/original/2X/e/e66e57d35dab351d78e9ba63d8fb1e94db367942.jpeg) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/dn-s-running-and-other-mishaps-thread/4398)._