{"id":35404,"date":"2014-02-25T06:33:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T11:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=35404"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:45:09","slug":"we-need-to-figure-this-diabetes-thing-out-its-holding-us-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=35404","title":{"rendered":"We Need to Figure This Diabetes Thing Out; It\u2019s Holding Us Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I met my running coach for coffee this morning to go over my running plan for the upcoming Tel Aviv Marathon (this Friday).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I wasn\u2019t planning on running another marathon six weeks after the <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/michael\/blogs\/exercise-blogs\/tiberias-marathon-2014-a-humbling-experience\/35115\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiberias marathon<\/a>, but the desire to erase the bad experience with a positive one (especially before I set out to train for the New York Marathon), and the fact the Tel Aviv marathon is right outside my door (I will actually pass by my window at the 21<sup>st<\/sup> mile) made me decide to register for the full marathon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When I arrived at the caf\u00e9, my coach was there siting with his laptop and a summary of my training, including the ten or so 20+ milers from before Tiberias, the Tiberias marathon splits, and the two long runs I completed in the last few weeks. We both looked at the numbers, and agreed that it would be best to start relatively slow and hope for a strong finish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Although my coach knows my first concern is not having a repeat of the <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/michael\/blogs\/exercise-blogs\/tiberias-marathon-2014-a-humbling-experience\/35115\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiberias<\/a>, or even <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/michael\/blogs\/exercise-blogs\/7-not-a-charm-running-the-milano-city-marathon-with-diabetes\/32391\/\" target=\"_blank\">Milan marathon<\/a>, and that I really want or need a positive experience, he told me he believes that I should be able to improve my <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/michael\/blogs\/exercise-blogs\/running-for-diabetes\/23819\/\" target=\"_blank\">PR<\/a> by at least half a minute or so. The funny thing is that originally, when I suggested running in the Tel Aviv marathon, he thought running another marathon so soon after Tiberias was a very bad idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After he typed the paces for each part of the marathon into the spreadsheet, he looked at his notes, turned to me and said: \u201cyou know we really need to figure this diabetes thing out. It\u2019s holding you back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cYou need to figure out what you can eat the day before the marathon, try it out during training (the day before you run long runs), so you can really perform in the marathon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Really?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">That was all I could think to myself. I know he meant well and really wants me to be able to run as if I don\u2019t have diabetes. But that\u2019s the thing about diabetes: even when you have good control, it\u2019s still there, and always unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I tried to explain. \u201cIt changes all the time\u2026. I don\u2019t know why and I don\u2019t know what affects it, besides the food, that is. Hormones, weather, sleep, stress, coffee, you name it, it all effects blood sugar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cI can try hard but I can\u2019t figure it out, get over it and move on to the next challenge. There is no formula, and just when you think you\u2019ve figured it out, you\u2019ve finally learned to deal (or gotten over it), something \u2013 a cold, gaining 2 pounds, the weather changing \u2013 happens and you find you\u2019re self starting from scratch again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">My coach stared at me blankly.\u00a0 I could tell that on some level he was blaming me.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t really believe I couldn\u2019t do diabetes better.\u00a0 This kind of thing used to piss me off, but I\u2019m kind of used to it now and I try to let it go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I don\u2019t like people feeling bad for me because of my diabetes.\u00a0 It\u2019s true that in the case of a marathon, it\u2019s a handicap.\u00a0 But that\u2019s my life and that\u2019s my challenge.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, my coach doesn\u2019t get it.\u00a0 No one outside of the D-world really does.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what I reminded myself as I kept myself from saying, \u201cIf I could figure this fucking diabetes thing out, don\u2019t you think I would?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/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":[82,575],"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>We Need to Figure This Diabetes Thing Out; 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