{"id":7941,"date":"2010-05-30T15:19:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T19:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=7941"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:42:00","slug":"heart-rate-experiment-part-3-the-protective-powers-of-my-glucometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=7941","title":{"rendered":"Heart Rate Experiment \u2013 Part 3 \u2013 The Protective Powers of my Glucometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been a week and a half since I started this experiment and I\u2019ve run seven times. Each run has been different, and thankfully, my heart rate has not gone anywhere near 200 in any of the seven runs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday afternoon I ran a 6 mile easy pace run with a friend. I checked my BS before starting and it was a little low \u2013 87. I ate something and headed out. After about a mile, I could feel my blood sugar dropping.\u00a0 I was sluggish and slow but my HR didn\u2019t exceed 135. After a couple of miles I stopped to drink and check my BS -74.\u00a0 That is way too low for running, but still, my HR was under 130. I ate a halva snack (14 grams of carb) and continued my run.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I ran most of the run at a steady pace watching my HR monitor and wondering when my HR would shoot up. It didn\u2019t. I sprinted the last quarter of a mile and my HR went up to 166, but it went right down once I stopped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I checked my BS one more time when I got home. It was 74. The halva had definitely saved me from a serious low which may have sent my HR way up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019ve learned (the hard way) that running with a glucometer is critical. I\u2019ve also learned that knowing my BS level and having the ability to check when feeling weak or slow are very important parts of a good run. And the longer the run, the more important this is. It also seems that the glucometer, at least mine, has protective powers. I\u2019ve been high and low but not once since starting this experiment has my HR been anything but normal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So either all I need is my gluco-buddy in my pocket for a good run, or maybe, just maybe, paying closer attention to my BS levels before and during my runs is more important than I thought.<\/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":[652,575],"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>Diabetes Running - Heart Rate Experiment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As a type 1 diabetic I&#039;ve learned that running with a glucometer is critical. 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