{"id":15196,"date":"2011-04-03T09:52:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T13:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=15196"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:45:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:45:13","slug":"approaching-the-marathon-thoughts-on-life-and-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=15196","title":{"rendered":"Approaching the Marathon: Thoughts on Life and Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I\u2019m five days away from my 5th marathon. I ran my <a href=\"..\/..\/michael\/blogs\/type-1-blogs\/diabetes-it%E2%80%99s-an-endurance-sport\/4885\/\">first marathon<\/a> 2 years ago, April 24<sup>th<\/sup> 2009, here in Tel Aviv. I remember it well.\u00a0 It was harder than I&#8217;d imagined and it took me a little under 4 hours and 14 minutes. At the 25<sup>th<\/sup> mile Jessica was waiting for me cheering me on with a three week old Adam in her arms. I tried to straighten up and smile, but I felt terrible. I was tired and under trained and had very little idea of the effects long distance running had on my blood sugar. I have come a long way since that first marathon. \u00a0I have lost 15 pounds, learned to keep my blood sugar under control while I run, train in a serious way and have even learned to carbo load.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tomorrow is Adam\u2019s birthday. He has also come a long way since that first marathon. He has turned into a little boy. He runs around, babbles\/talks and throws food. He is constantly into everything, driving everyone a little crazy while also bringing great joy to all of us (his brothers too). The only thing that hasn\u2019t changed is that he&#8217;s as attached to his mother as he was at three weeks (meaning&#8230; the boy does not want to be weaned).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a way it\u2019s hard to believe he\u2019s only two since I can\u2019t imagine life without him. It\u2019s interesting how things become a part of us so we can\u2019t imagine ourselves without them. I feel that way about my family \u2013 Jessica and each of the boys \u2013 my running, and even my diabetes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Somehow they are all connected and they are all part of who I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[575],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thoughts on Life with Diabetes and Marathon Running<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I ran my first marathon 2 years ago. 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