Friday - Track Repeats

Run: 4.75 miles
Terrain: Flat Track
Time: 0:46:13

Pre-Run BG: 89 mg/dl
Post-Run BG: 151 mg/dl
Intake: 12 oz mango juice
Run Pump Status: 40% of normal basal

    First track session. I was soooo not feeling in the groove. The legs calves just felt like they were full of concrete. I pushed and did what I could anyway. 6 x 400 was scheduled. I eacked out 4 x 400 with 20 min. warm-up, and a 200 rest lap between pushes. I kept my 400's at 3:15 and that felt hmmm a little slow to say it modestly. I just don't feel fast these days. As if I've lost something. Oh well, I'll keep moving.

Friday - Hill Repeats (9)

Run: ~ 3 Miles
Terrain: Very Hilly
Time: 01:04:43

Pre-Run BG: 95 mg/dl
Post-Run BG: 134 mg/dl
Intake: 10 oz Chocolate Silk
Run Pump Status: 30% of normal nasal rate

    This was a rather uneventful run. I will have to say that after driving up this hill to home each day, and then running it as much as I have been, I have a new jealous appreciation for my Prius gliding up it. It's all good though. I did the hill nine times today with a 20 minute warm-up and 20 minute cool-down. This is probably my last bit of dedicated hill work for a while. I'll transition to track speed work now. My Wednesday night runs should be sufficient enough for hill work to keep me in shape. Breathing felt much better. I cannot absolutely attribute this to the chiropractic adjustment I had last Thursday, but I'll blame 95% of on the adjustment. Moving on.

Wednesday - Group Trail Run

Run: ~6.5-7 Miles
Time: 01:36:13
Terrain: Very Hilly

Pre-Run BG: 156 mg/dl
Post-Run BG: 126 mg/dl
Intake: ~6 oz Hammer Gel
Run Pump Status: 100% NBR (normal basal rate)

     It was a nice day with milder temps on the top of the mountian, so I pushed for more mileage today. I wanted to go all the way to the road that crosses this ridge I was running on. I hadn't done that yet and wanted to. The run is tough enough with 2 steep hills to come back up, but then by finishing the section to the road...yeah another killer hill. It's good cardiac work right? I'm telling you just walking up those silly hills I'm like 160-165 on the heart rate monitor. It's work man.

     As for BG levels, they were a little high to begin. Next time, I'll take a small bolus to start dropping the blood sugar begore the run when it's this high...for my Wednesday night run. The BG got to about 204 and then held there. After 2 bolus' it finally started to go back down. It dropped a little quick, two down arrows for a while, but then capped off at about 136 mg/dl. Overall, not a perfect feeling tonight while running, but it was OK.

Notes: Get a Chiropratic adjustment. Breathing should be this tight. I can't seem to ever breathe deep enough. There's also a tight spot, that's always there, in the maybe T3 region, that I know is not correctly aligned. Get it fixed. Check BP to see if it's too high, hence the harder the heart must work to get O2 out to where it's needed.

Monday - Mow Run

Mow/Run: ~1 mile
Time: 01:04:20
Terrain: Mildly Hilly

Pre-Activity BG: 153 mg/dl
Post-Activity BG: 93 mg/dl
Intake: 10 oz of Chocolate Silk
Activity Pump Status: 50% of Normal Basal Rate

    Hey, you've got to do your chores, you've got to exercise....why not a 2-for-1? So, I speed mowed the lawn. It didn't need a real serious cut anyway. I kept the HR at about 140-148 so that was worth it. It was one of my 30-40 minute alternative activity days...so why not count mowing the lawn as such. Just a problem free mild cardiac workout.

Sunday - 10-15 K Race Pace

Run: 9 Miles
Time: 01:14:18
Terrain: Treadmill

Pre-Run BG: 165 mg/dl
Post-Run BG: 142 mg/dl
Intake: 4-6 oz Hammer Gel, H2O
Run Pump Status: 50% of Normal Basal Rate

    Just a straight-up, plain and simple run. No problems and nothing to really note. All went well.

Friday - Hill Repeats

Run: ~2 miles
Terrain: VERY Hilly
Time: 0:46:21

Pre-Run BG: 253 mg/dl
Post-Run BG: 95 mg/dl
Intake: 8 oz Chocolate Silk, 4 PB&J Crackers
Run Pump Status: 100 % of normal basal


    Today had one of those beginnings no one wishes for. I woke up at 04:10 to my pump cg going off indicating I was above 200. I did a finger stick and found it to actually be 253 mg/dl. A bit too high and I was worrying a little about my run for the morning. So, I cut my insulin in half and went to run early since my alarm was planning on getting up at 04:40 anyway. It was a very nicely moonlit run. With no cars passing me, I didn't even have to turn on my headlamp. I ran totally by moonlight. Nice. Heck I was even up before the dogs wanted to be, only one barked at me from his backyard pen. After my fourth hill repeat I looked at the pump, because I felt a little funny, and what do you know...136 with two down arrows. Crap. Well, I had no adrenaline in the tank this AM, that was for sure. So, I realize I don't have to worry about high BG's in the AM. Great, but I was going to have to cut his run short. I finished 6 repeats and did a quick cool down and let my shoes carry me to a glass of chocolate silk to recover and bring the BG up. I realized I was smart to quite when I did. I can run more later, but had I pushed more this AM, I'd be deep in the pain and stupidity cave. Whew.

Wednesday - Group Run

Run: ~4-4.5 miles
Terrain: very hilly
Time: 0:56:39

Pre-Run BG: 138 mg/dl
Post-Run BG: 156 mg/dl
Intake: H2O
Run Pump Status: 50 % of reg. Basal rate 1st 1-1.5 miles, then 100% of reg. Basal

    I think I had a pretty good grip on my glucose maintenance last night. I was very happy with therun. I'll see my chiro before the next good run and that should help a bit also. So, I dropped my basal to 50% 1 hour prior to the run and didn't eat anything. I'd already had plenty of fuel and H2O a few hours earlier. As stated at about 1-1.5 miles into the run, and watching my pace very carefully, I noticed I had begun to trend upwards. Immediately I put the basal rate back to 100 % and kept running. About 10-15 minutes latrer I noticed it was still trending upward with one arrow. So, I took an action that was a little risky, but I had plenty of gel with me so I wasn't worried. I took 1.5 units of Novolog and kept running. In another 15 mintes the upward BG trend was gone and I'd stabilized at about 164 mg/dl. This was perfect. I was excited to have a small grip of control on this issue as I haven't had much luck with it the past few runs. Back at the car I got 157 mg/dl from a finger stick and was happy. I cut the run short of following the group out for the full monty of 5-8 miles and did what I knew "I" needed to. I'm really changing my thought pattern here, in that instead of just following the group and hanging on - or trying to hang on, I'm focusing on me and staying there regardless of who's around me or where they're at. I think that this approach will make me stronger race day and I'm betting on it. This also makes me more of a soloist at times, but I can live with that. Anything longer for the run last night and I would have definately used the gel, but just under an hour and I'm OK with no gel.

Sunday - Long Run

Run: ~ 9 Miles
Terrain: Treadmill
Time: 01:41:18

Pre-Run BG: 140 mg/dl
Post-Run BG: 198 mg/dl
Intake: 5 oz Hammer Gel
Run Pump Status: Normal Basal Rates


    Sunday was a busy day. We're currently building a "super-mega" rainwater collection project, so much of the day was spent doing this. I say "super-mega" because it's a system with 15 barrels each holding up to 55 gallons of water. Compared to the average backyard water collector...that's huge. I decided to save time and just run at home. By doing this I was able to leave my basal rates at 100% during the run and see how I did under safer conditions. Pretty well as it turns out. So, this next Wednesday I think I'll leave my basal rates closer to 100% then I have in the past and see how it goes. I kept the HR in the 150-155 range the whole run and that felt rejuvenating also.

Saturday - Light workout

Hike: ~4 Miles
Terrain: Very Hilly Trail
Time: ~ 01:46:42

Pre-Hike BG: 119 mg/dl
Post-Hike BG: 151 mg/dl
Intake: 2 granola bars
Hike Pump Status: Normal basal settings except for a 30 minute seg. to raise BG


    It was a perfect day to share the trail with my wife so she knows what I'm running on Wednesday nights with the group and to walk the dog. This was a much lower impact workout so there were no real issues with my glucose levels. I ate something before hitting the trail to bring up the BG level a little and then had to intake another granola bar at the turnaround before heading back. Other than this all went well.