{"id":44613,"date":"2016-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/running-the-new-york-city-marathon-with-low-blood-sugar\/"},"modified":"2016-09-24T20:46:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T00:46:02","slug":"running-the-new-york-city-marathon-with-low-blood-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=44613","title":{"rendered":"Running the New York City Marathon With Low Blood Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NYC-Marathon-1-e1457357665392.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38750\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38750 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NYC-Marathon-1-e1457357665392.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Aviad - NYC Marathon\" width=\"600\" height=\"704\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">November 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2015, was one of the best days of my life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It hasn\u2019t take me four months to figure this out, it\u2019s just how long it\u2019s taken me to tell you about it. I knew it was a highlight of my life around noon on that day, while running through the streets of Brooklyn. The most amazing crowds I had ever seen cheered me and the other thousands of runners participating in the NYC marathon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was my 10<sup>th<\/sup> marathon and it came after almost two years of injury and slow recovery. It was far from my fastest marathon (3:29:51), but it felt like a true victory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I arrived at the marathon a little undertrained and still feeling my hamstring injury. But I knew I could do it if I took it easy. I paced myself and stuck to my plan. Everything seemed to go smoothly until the 20<sup>th<\/sup> mile when my right leg cramped. I stopped for a minute, stretched out my leg, and continued running.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I kept my pace down and seemed to be fine. Somewhere on 5<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue before turning into Central Park, I started feeling very sluggish. I tried to increase my pace, but couldn\u2019t. As we turned into the park I felt my body slowing down, but since it was the last few miles of the marathon I didn\u2019t think too much of it. (The truth is that at that point I couldn\u2019t think about much more than my next step.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When we came out of the park on 59<sup>th<\/sup> St., a young Italian runner dropped to the ground, exhausted. I felt so sorry for him. There was less than a mile to go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NYC-Marathon-2.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38751\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-38751 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/NYC-Marathon-2.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Aviad - NYC Marathon - Crossing the Finish Line\" width=\"300\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a>I felt like I was about to do the same, but somehow, sluggish, light-headed and heavy-footed, I continued running. I crossed the finish line at 3:52:56.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was exhausted. And happy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I got my medal and bag of goodies, and started walking towards the exit. A few minutes later I decided to check my blood sugar (something I hadn\u2019t done since the start of the marathon). It was 60.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I opened the bag of goodies, took out the apple, and slowly ate it. It was around 2:30 p.m. and the apple was my first food of the day (aside from the three gels I\u2019d consumed during my run).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As I walked toward the exit, thinking about the last miles of the race, I made a decision. I\u2019m going to get a CGM, even if I have to pay for it myself. In life with Type 1 diabetes, the stakes are always high. The 60 at the finish line scared me. Had I gotten to the finish line five minutes later, who knows what could have happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":44614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[],"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>Running the New York City Marathon With Low Blood Sugar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=44613\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael Aviad\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=44613\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=44613\",\"name\":\"Running the New York City Marathon With Low Blood Sugar\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=44613#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=44613#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NYC-Marathon-1-e1457357665392-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-07T05:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-09-25T00:46:02+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/9e0f6c9e8ec6bf77b78cd95c9bd446b6\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=44613#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=44613\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=44613#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NYC-Marathon-1-e1457357665392-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/NYC-Marathon-1-e1457357665392-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2182,\"height\":2560,\"caption\":\"NYC Marathon - 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