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Race season is over for me and I\u2019m happy with my accomplishments \u2013 I ran two marathons and two half marathons.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t reach my goal of a sub-4 marathon but I set a new personal record for both distances.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve decided to spend the summer preparing for next year, improving my speed and building a good base. But the biggest issue I need to figure out is the heart rate issue. I need to understand what happens to my body that makes my heart rate suddenly shoot up during some of my runs.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t been able to find any logical pattern or obvious cause to the HR phenomenon. During the Rotterdam marathon<\/a> it happened after 20 miles and last week during the Tel Aviv half marathon<\/a> it happened after just 2 miles. So I\u2019ve decided to experiment. I will spend the next few weeks running with a glucometer, testing my BS every few miles.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m hoping to understand whether it is dropping blood sugar that triggers my HR to rise.<\/p>\n

I went on my first run of the experiment this morning. I planned a 7.5 mile run split into three 2.5 mile laps, with a blood sugar check at the end of each. I planned on increasing my HR every lap by 10 heart beats per minute, starting at 135 and finishing at 155.<\/p>\n

It was a surprisingly cool day and the run went better than ever. Many times my HR rises at the start of my runs and comes down within 5 minutes. Today my run went exactly as I planned. I woke up with 131 BS, had some coffee with milk and went running with my BS level at 164.<\/p>\n

I ate my Halva snack (14 grams of carb) after 2 miles and tested my BS after 2.5 \u2013 it was 162. After 5 miles my BS was 175 and at the end of my run it was 162 again. I felt great, ran well and wondered if this was just a waste of test strips or if I would learn something from all of this.<\/p>\n

For now all I can say is that running with BS of 160-175 on a cool morning seems to work just fine. But that is hardly a great discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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