I haven\u2019t run more than 12.5 miles since early July, and after running a good 11 miles on Wednesday, I felt like I was ready to break the half marathon distance again. But, on Friday morning when I woke up at 4:15 a.m. to get ready for my run, I was dazed.\u00a0 I felt as if everything I did was in slow motion. I knew it wasn\u2019t just the early morning hours and the lack of sleep. I tested my blood sugar it was 438.\u00a0 Perhaps I had rebounded after a nighttime low.\u00a0 I have no other explanation for the number.<\/p>\n
I took one unit of insulin hoping that it would bring my blood sugar down to a somewhat decent level before I started to run, without causing me to crash (the bolus wizard recommended 2.7 units).<\/p>\n
When I arrived at the meeting place, an hour after I bolused, my blood sugar was 244<\/strong>. A little disappointed, I lowered my basal rate and started to run.<\/p>\n After 3 miles of feeling bad I stopped to check my blood sugar. It was 140<\/strong>. \u00a0I\u2019d dropped more than 100 in under a half hour of running.<\/p>\n I ran another mile until my next check. This time it was 108.\u00a0 I took a gel, kept running, and kept feeling like shit.\u00a0 Two miles later my blood sugar was 100. I felt terrible and decided to turn back towards the car. I was running by myself and worried I would pass out. I ran slowly just wanting it to be over.<\/p>\n I was very disappointed in myself and felt like an idiot for running on a morning that started with a blood sugar of 438.\u00a0 In those moments, though, it seems like the only thing to do is to bolus and continue as planned. Otherwise, diabetes wins.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t even know how coherently I\u2019m thinking with such high blood sugar combined with so little sleep.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sometimes I push myself and it works. And then there are the days like Friday, when diabetes totally kicks my ass.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …<\/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":"\n