The All-athlon - 1 day, 5 races, 53 miles - Marathon, 1/2 Marathon, 10k, 8k, 5k

Some BG data

It took me a while to get the whole day graphed out. There is a lot of data in here and it is tough to get it all in a readable format. (Doing just the Marathon graph was easy, but it was challenging to put the entire day on a graph with all the details and to make it readable!)

Each race is colored differently to make it easy to see them.

One interesting observation is that I have a BG rise after each race completes. This is understandable from the perspective of me trying to refuel after each race but also trying to reduce the amount of IOB I would have for the next race.

So the goals are - eat as much as possible without getting stuffed, but also try to not have a ton of IOB. Because of that, you can see a small spike after each race.

It is also common that I see a rise after races, because while running the GI function is less of a priority than the working muscles, so carb absorption is somewhat down-regulated while running. As soon as I finish, the body processes a lot of the remaining carbs that were consumed while running.

So these two factors can be seen with a slight BG rise after every race. It was very interesting to see it graphically.

The other easily noticeable thing is that I drop after every race starts. This is not a bad thing to me! I call this a ā€œfueling opportunityā€.



It was cool to look back at the day and see that several times I took carbs or boluses without a BG check! The Force was working well that day. :grinning:

Really the only crappy one was the 8k, where I plummeted. All the other ones felt good. For the entire day, I think I had only about 34 minutes total where I was above 140. The only crappy low was during the 8k.

(Only 2 crappy tests during the day, 168 and 37. The others were all reasonable to me.)

Total carbs for the day was 755 (if I added it all correctly).

Anyway, here is the graph. The BG range I am using is 60 to 110.



EDIT:
I donā€™t usually track steps, but just for laughs, I got a copy of my step total for the day. I was hoping I could roll over the ā€œodometerā€, but I ended up a little short of 100,000.

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Wow, this is absolutely incredible!! Iā€™d be happy with that range without all of the running!! Your spikes are hardly spikes!! I just canā€™t imagine how wiped out you must have been by 11:17 PM!!! Congratulations making it through 5 distance races with stellar BGs!! This is one for the records in my book!! Thank you so much for sharing and being the inspiration for the two, little angels, as well as all of us on FUD!!! :angel: :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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@Eric, this is really incredible.

And your BG data is practically perfectly controlled all the way.

I think the longest I have ever done is 10Kā€¦

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Thanks @Kaelan!

Probably because you are much smarter than me. :grinning:

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