I’m definitely taking it as a positive day. When I headed over, I had planned on running 5 miles. I did that, and I ended up doing it much faster than I had planned, so cool. No hard feelings, life.
10k. I can try to get out of it. If not, I can just not go?
Expected recovery… That’s pretty wide open right now. The procedure is laparoscopic…and is supposed to be minimally invasive. With any luck, I’d be good in a day or two. In reality, I run a higher than average chance of a few problems that could really open that recovery time up… to weeks or months. Entertaining that thought beyond stating it is a waste of your and my time though. So I’m assuming a couple of days.
If you can’t get out of the 10k and get a refund, just don’t go.
I think the risk of doing a race the day before is not worth it. You would show up for surgery all inflamed and in a mess. That would not help. And you might be running the race in pain, so that is more of a mess.
Sept 13 indoor (a little tired and a little sick)
5 miles
No ZB
Coffee at home (decided to run last minute)
Starting bg: 169
Mi 1 bg: 167
*Cutting basal
Mi 2: 156
Mi 3: 136
Mi 4: 121
Mi 5: 99
*Resume basal
*1 unit bolus
RPE 4-5
Life notes:
-This week would’ve felt a lot better if I had left the crappy food at the food store. Running makes me feel capable and strong. Eating bad food makes me feel bad about myself in so many ways.
-I know I shouldn’t run a race the day before my surgery, but I think I’d like to run. I think I would like to have all these kinds of thoughts rather than woe is me, which is useless thinking.
No basal-IQ most of the morning. Yogurt about 30 minutes before. Coffee about an hour before.
20 min ZB
applesauce (13g) at start
Starting BG: 81
Mi 1: 92
Mi 2: 86
Mi 3: 82
Mi 4: 77
*Huma
Mi 5: 73
*Transcend
*.15 unit bolus
Mi 6: 83
Mi 7: 96
*.1 unit
Mi 8: 98
Mi 9: 99
Mi 10: 107
Walk half
*1.5 unit bolus
RPE: chill. Felt good to feel good. Did it in an hour and 30.
A little lower hopes after looking at Monday, which is very intimidating, but the rest looks fine. Monday is going to be fine, too. Assuming I survive.
-Coffee 90 min before
-20 minutes ZB
-Applesauce at start (hungry!)
Starting bg: 164
Mi 1: 167
Mi 2: 165
*.15 unit
Mi 3: 198
*.5 unit
*Resume
Mi 4: 197
*Huma
*1 unit
Mi 5: 221
*1.5 unit
Mi 6: 207 and done
*walk 3/4 mile
Mi 6.75: 174
3.15 units of insulin during that run… there’s no way all of that was for the applesauce. I was working pretty hard the first two miles and knew I was going to keep rising, but I wasn’t confident enough to do a bigger bolus. After the third mile, which was really hard, I wanted the Huma for the caffeine. I tried to give what felt like an enormous bolus, but the carbs on top of that spike were pretty hardcore. Then a little bit of a rage bolus at the end. And a few more after getting off. But the run was great. I definitely had a few times I wanted to quit (this feeling has been creeping in here and there—so either your runs are hard again, or I’m growing soft), but I didn’t slow it down this time. Very proud when I was done. RPE, technically speaking, was hard AF (And Fantastic).
Congrats on getting it done! That was a tough run. Wonderful that you knocked it out! Happy for you there!
But tell me…
This part?
I mean, applesauce at the start when you are 70 or whatever, that’s perfectly fine.
But applesauce at 164?
Anyway, not to detract from what you did today. Your run was great. Just make sure you keep the BG component as a part of the overall run prep. Just like lacing your shoes up, it’s all part of the run.
Hmmm. I did NOT turn off my Basal-IQ this morning, which would mean I had some suspends working for me. So it’s actually not that the applesauce at a 164 was a terribly stupid decision, it’s that the applesauce at a 164 at the start of a high intensity run without a couple of hours of no Basal-IQ may have been a terribly stupid decision. What I’ve figured is if I have less than 30 minutes ZB going in, I can have a banana or applesauce or yogurt at the start. But that really works best when I’ve turned off the Basal-IQ and gotten my regular morning basal (which pushes my numbers down). I forgot to cut the basal-IQ today. So the applesauce was unnecessary, so it drove me high. But my RPE was also very high. I really worked during today’s run. And since I did start to see that little baby dip around mile 2 and then 40 pt. rise by 3, could that be a cortisol spike? If it had spiked and then fallen, then I’d absolutely look at the applesauce as the culprit, but I was doing a lot of insulin during the run, and it just didn’t want to budge. Is that thinking wrong? For what it’s worth, I’m also under the weather. I’m not laid up, but what I do have has been lingering and in and out in severity. Just have been feeling pretty weak. Don’t know if that explains anything, or if I should just put that in my “excuses” file and keep moving.
Yes, the spike is probably a mix of all the things working together.
It’s fine, you got it done. And it’s useful to start looking at the workouts and making predictions about what the workout will do to your BG, in addition to the basal changes and the carbs.
So this one was possibly going to spike you a bit anyway. But with the applesauce added at the beginning, it’s difficult to know how much of it was applesauce, and how much was that awesome adrenaline from the hard work.
If you get a spike with NO carbs, and you know it was entirely from running hormones, that is a wonderful feeling.
