Good. That means yesterday was work, but you shook it off by the end.
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Yes, it sure was. 
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Okay. Easy peasy.
Sept 4 indoor 4.25 @ 6.4-6.8
No ZB
Yogurt before starting
Cutting off basal at start
Starting BG: 111
Mi 1: 123
Mi 2: 131
*.15 unit bolus
Mi 3: 118
Mi 4: 117
Mi 4.25: — finish
*Resume basal
*1 unit bolus
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Sept. 4 indoor
1.5 warm up
5 min Break
8.5 speed for .25
6.0 till .4
8.5 till .65
6.0 till .8
8.5 till 1.05
6.0 till 1.2
8.5 till 1.45
6.0 till 1.6
8.5 till 1.85
6.0 till 2
8.5 till 2.25
6.0 till 2.4
8.5 till 2.65
6.0 till 2.8
8.5 till 3.05
6.0 till 3.2
8.5 till 3.45
6.0 till 3.6
8.5 till 3.85
6.0 till 4
1 mile cool down
Turned off basal-IQ for 2 hours
Yogurt at home
30 min ZB
*Kind of floating BGs last couple of days—today included. 174 so doing the smallest injection I can but have no idea how much it is. 
(this may have turned out to be no injection at all—thought I may have gotten almost .25 but maybe not)
Starting BG: 174
Mi 1.5: 176
*Break
Mi 1: 180
Mi 2: 199
*1 unit manual injection (outta insulin)
Mi 3: 192
Mi 4: 199
Cool down
Mi 5: 146
Total: 6.5 mi
RPE: 6 for first rep… so that should give you an idea. 7 until the 6th… then around 7.5-8 as I got closer to the last one. BUT… never felt like death… and I’ve seen that a few times. 
Oh, and I’ve got a new respect for the quarter mile… started thinking it was no distance at all, but it is…
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Nice work!
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Ran much earlier but am just getting around to posting. Had a beautiful evening with my boys… except for having high blood sugar the ENTIRE time. 
Sept 7? Saturday indoor 9 mi
Workout…goal: (3 mi @ 6.4, 3 @ 7.0, 3@ 8.0)
No Basal-IQ this morning
No ZB (forgot!)
Banana at start
Cutting basal
Starting BG: 104
Mi 1: 108
Mi 2: 98
*Huma
Mi 3:: 101
Mi 4: 118
*.1 bolus
Mi 5: 132
*.15 bolus
Mi 6: 153
*.2 bolus
Mi 7: 171
*Resume basal
Mi 8: 181
Mi 9: 194
Done holy crap
*1.5 unit bolus
*Walk half mile
Off at 196
*1 unit bolus
“Hard” miles started off pretty tough. Made it a mile by pure determination. Every step was a battle between keeping on and calling it quits. I knew I couldn’t push myself through 2 more miles of this since the temptation to stop was already strong. So I altered the last part so it still qualified as “harder” but allowed for a finish. Even then it was tough.
Actual last 3 miles:
Mi 6: 1/4 mi @ 7.0
3/4 mi @ 7.5
Mi 7: 1/4 mi @ 7.0
3/4 mi @ 7.5
Mi 8: 1/4 mi @ 7.0
1/4 mi @ 7.5
1-4 mi @ 7.6
1/4 mi @ 7.7
Ouch.
RPE in the beginning was fine, but I felt sluggish. Still sluggish most of the way through the medium miles, but that first hard mile was off the chart. Ended up getting it done at about an 8.
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Don’t be down about it. The difficulty was probably a good bit from your BG.
When you get up around 150 or 170, your body can’t use much of anything except muscle glycogen. It’s like cutting your fuel options down to only one.
Walk me through it. What is your estimation on why you spiked so much? Certainly not from the pace.
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It’s possible I’m having an infusion set issue… something like that. I was very high last night (which I blamed on my food, but manual injections did bring it down periodically), and then I was high almost immediately after the run… again, with it appearing my only drops followed more shots. I had been busy explaining it all away, but I’m out of explanations. And I believe the only reason o even had that 102 or whatever at the start was from an IV shot about an hour before… a last ditch attempt to get my morning high BG under control before starting my run.
Finish this for me:
When in doubt…
Cut it out.
I know. I just didn’t think the highs were unexplained… or at least not completely unexplained… until I realized they were. I didn’t realize that until I saw how high I was staying after my run. Then I knew. But wasn’t home. Now I’m home. But not vertical.
But I’ll go ahead and do that now…
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When in doubt, swap it out. Sorry. Never gave the real answer. 
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Pretty sure it was a site issue.
Put it away. Important stuff coming up this week!
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I think it was, too. And I wasn’t overly disappointed with the run. Frustrated with my blood sugar, but I was happy with what I did get done
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Hey, the other thing…
I sometimes ask you to knock off a few miles at 8.0. No big deal, right?
But today, I asked you to do it after 6 miles. That makes a big difference.
This week’s schedule is a bit different. Wednesday needs some explanation. Read through it first and then let’s chat about it. Finding your FTP is extremely useful. You will be resting up a bit for that run.
If you find your BG is crappy before that run, pull the plug and reset. Take an hour or so to get it together, and then get ready for it again. Good BG is important for that effort. I want you at the top of your game for Wednesday, so sleep well Tuesday night.
The speed is yours to decide, but do not start too fast and then have to slow down at the end. Also do not start too slow and then speed up at the end.
Pick a constant speed you can maintain for 30 minutes that is as hard as you can possibly run for the full 30 minutes. At the end of 30 minutes you should be completely spent with nothing left.
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Thanks, Nicky, for adding these details!! They are very helpful, and good for you, too, I hope to record and review! 
Fantastic runs and numbers!!! 
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What is FTP??
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During exercise, your body uses oxygen to break down glucose for energy. As the exercise intensity increases, eventually there is not enough oxygen available to allow this process, and your body produces lactate.
Your body is able to convert lactate to energy without using oxygen, but only up to a point. As the intensity increases, lactate builds up in the bloodstream faster than it can be burned off. The point when lactic acid starts to build up exponentially is called the lactate inflection point (see image below).
A person’s lactate threshold is the maximum steady state effort that can be maintained without lactate continually increasing.
There are a lot of ways to calculate a person’s lactate threshold, but I like a simple running test.
The pace you can maintain for 30 minutes at your absolute maximum possible effort is your Functional Threshold Pace, or FTP.
(please don’t confuse this with the cycling term Functional Threshold Power, which they also call FTP)
It’s functional because it is simply pace-based. And the good thing about it is that you can use your FTP for specific pace targets for races of various distances.
Depending on your fitness, you might try to hit anywhere from 90% to 110% of your FTP in a 5k race. Maybe 80% to 95% of your FTP in a 10k. Or higher or lower if your fitness is better or worse.
And depending on your fitness, you might try to hit 70% or 80% of FTP for a half marathon. Or maybe even 85% if you have been conditioning a long time and are in good shape.
It’s a great way to figure out pace targets for races. And it can be used by people of all fitness levels.
Here is a reference picture of the lactate inflection point:
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Wow, this is very interesting. Had no idea running could be so technical. I’ll have to try this, too.
Thanks, @Eric, for explaining this!
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