So…… keeping my bad habit drive alive, I did not cut my basal an hour before… and……… had a wee little cup of coffee about 20 minutes prior to starting.
Starting BG: 185
*Cutting basal
Mi 1: 163
Mi 2: 139
*Huma
Mi 3: 103
Mi 4: 104
Mi 5: 105
Mi 6: 100
*Huma
*.1 unit bolus
Mi 7: 109
*Resume basal
Mi 8: 124
Walk half mile
*2.5 unit IM shot as soon as I got off the treadmill and then another 2 units pump bolus to cover food
RPE was full cruising at 5.5. Would’ve liked to have run longer.
While I await your last motivational, inspirational, and uplifting post over there at “for the parents”, I’ll try to slip in my last couple of days of runs… and maybe it’ll get past you or you’ll read it when you’re feeling all high from that great thread…
There’s some coffee in it. And probably on it…
Monday, July 8
(4 sets 5:00 min @ 7.3 then 1 min jog
1.25 warm up and cool down)
Starting BG: 204! Can’t remember why now but really sure it was justified…
*.3 unit bolus
.5 mi: —-
*Cut basal
Mi 1: 202
Mi 2: 171
Mi 2.5: —-
*Huma
*.1 unit bolus
Mi 3: 152
Mi 4: 140
Mi 5: 124
*Resume basal
Mi 5.5 finish
Walk half
Mi 6: 110
RPE 5.5
The run was great… just crappy numbers… Will have to try to remember why………Nope, can’t remember.
I think this one was almost worse… but I had so many things to jam into a few short hours yesterday, that I just had to make it work. It’s a good reminder though—another one—that that’s just not really good enough if I want the run to feel good.
July 9
Pre-run scenario:
Crashing
recent 3 unit pump bolus
yogurt
and a ton of skittles…
Also coffee…
And a recent 45 min Basal-IQ suspend
I already know, so you don’t even have to say anything about all of that…
…cutting basal at start…
Starting BG: 47
Rocky 1/4 mile so not counting it
Mi 1: 77 (one mile space walk)
Mi 2: 71 (feeling better)
Mi 2.4: (and low again)
*Huma
Mi 3: 79
Mi 4: 84
*Resume basal
Mi 4.5: done and wow did that suck
Most of that run was an RPE of I don’t even know because I wasn’t sure my body parts were all attached. Little tiny pockets of it, when my blood sugar came up for air, were like cruising. Three units of insulin before starting… it’s just a little much.
Resting today and planning on being organized so that tomorrow’s run feels good.
Great numbers, too, eventually!! Looks like a tough workout, too!! At least you ended lower than you started! Today I had one of those where I ended 40 mg/Dl higher than I started! And that was WITH Loop basals of sometimes 2U+/hr!!
Was that for the skittles!! Great recovery though! considering you were running at the time!! And landed exactly where you’d want to be with a BG of 84!!
Good question. I honestly can’t remember why I did but have a guess. I think that 204 was from a coffee spike that happened because I was crashing a little earlier and thought I could get in a coffee and not spike…Because I usually don’t do carbs so high… so that makes me think I had probably gone even higher and already seen it turn. So when I realized that was it for the spike, I became afraid of a really fast drop, and I didn’t want that to happen during a run like this. It would blow the whole thing.
Take what you need, depending on the circumstances. Huma’s are great for general use. But if you are in a ditch or headed that way, a Prime or 2 will pull you out of it, no matter how bad you are.
Okay, @Eric. I know you’re on vacay… which means you better not respond.
Thursday, July 11:
1.25 mi warm up
2 sets of 1 Mile @ 7.7 (7:47 pace) then jog 1:30.
1.25 mi cool down
(4.8 mi total)
-Approx 20 minutes ZB
-No coffee within about an hour of starting
-pretty fast crash about 20 min before starting so had a lot of skittles and a yogurt (so not exactly organized but more organized than everything else this week.
Starting BG: 82
*banana at start
Mi 1: 102
*.1 bolus
Mi 2.35: 101
Mi 3.7: 106
Mi 4.6: 89
Mi 5: 100
This felt wonderful. I had a head full of good things today thanks to Eric’s recent post. I tried out some new thinking and instead of focusing on my numbers, which I usually do, I tried telling myself the numbers didn’t matter. They couldn’t matter if I wasn’t going to stop until it was done. I always work within the numbers. They define me and they define my progress. I’ve learned to live with that. But it means I’m always aware of how far I’ve come and even more aware of how far there is to go. I cope with that burdensome thinking by talking myself through every lap, every minute, every rep… I like to think of myself as mentally tough, but this can mean I’m talking myself through it from lap one.
Today I tried to let it go. Told myself there was no sense in thinking about it because I wasn’t going to stop until my timer went off. Freed my mind. Doing so meant I had nothing to think about except my kids and my dad and a little about life…I listened to the music and let confidence drive it all. Coincidentally—though probably not— I forgot about my blood sugar… and twice even forgot to test. I’m usually counting down the laps until I get to test again, already drawing blood as I near the next mile marker… But I was a free range chicken today. When I remembered that I had forgotten, I tested and found things were fine. Couldn’t help but smile. There was a lot of freedom in today’s run—yet another gift from my dear, crazy friend.
Taking Friday and Saturday off to hang out in the hospital. Everything’s fine, they just know a hypochondriac sucker when they see one and have lined up some expensive tests to make worth everyone’s while.
Monday. I’m back on schedule, and tomorrow maybe a nice walk.
I’ll send a lot of positive energy your way, @Nickyghaleb, along with good thoughts and prayers, that all tests will turn out in your favor, you’ll being given answers to any problems, with easy, fixable solutions!
Actually just slightly less fun than being in my house over the weekend…
Thank you, @Tapestry, @T1john, @daisymae, @T1Allison, and @Trying. You guys made my night with your warm thoughts. And daisymae, I was a complete welcome mat with the hospital staff so they had no problems with me… until my mom walked in. Then they didn’t like me. But mom was just showing me how to take care of business and quit being a wimp. That lady is pretty hardcore and a complete inspiration.
Okay. I was back up and at it today but with pretty mixed results. I got most of it done though, so there’s that. And didn’t end up back in the ER which was also a victory.
The run was a 1.5 mile warm up, 32 minutes at 7.5 (8 min miles), and a 1.5 mile cool down for a total of 7 miles. I won’t bother with the hospital details, but I’ll say Friday was not a diabetes thing… but was something else crazy and scary enough that I’ve been careful since getting out. Wasn’t sure I could do today’s run but really wanted to, so that’s probably how I came to be doing most of it—but then stopping abruptly when I started feeling bad.
No ZB today because I wasn’t sure when I was going to start. And I had a coffee… because I didn’t think I could do this workout, on this particular day, without it. I figured the lack of ZB might offset the coffee rise if I got started right away—and that seemed to be the way it went.
Starting BG: 113
Cutting basal
Mi 1: 115
Mi 2: 102
Mi 3: 99
Mi 4: 121
*.2 bolus
*Huma (not feeling too hot and wanted the caffeine)
Mi 5: 136… Had to stop the treadmill
*8 min break (lots of stuff going on that felt wrong)
…Then feeling better so
Mi 5.1: 115…really slow jog
*Resume basal
(G6 showing a 155 two arrows up so did a .2 unit bolus because I was anticipating a rise—but then retested and came up with 114)
Mi 6: 82 (because I bolused unnecessarily)
Mi 6.5: 77
And blah. Really severe blah. I was glad I got back on and jogged for a bit only because I didn’t want to end it at that 8 min pace, but it just never felt okay. I was working hard from the first mile, and tried as I might to not think numbers, they wouldn’t leave me alone. Lots of hard physical stuff this weekend and lots of meds, and I think my body was just a little beaten up.
So I don’t want to miss tomorrow, but maybe I can do it at a slightly slower pace? And then if I feel better than expected, I could always pick it up?
…Nope, can’t remember. 
That lady is pretty hardcore and a complete inspiration. 