Yesterday, I ran on a treadmill. Not my favorit workout but time and weather lead to this activity. My wife has a incline tread machine with incline to 40%. I did the highest programable workout. It was pretty good. I could not get a pace down on the inclines. I was made fun of, holding on to the handles. The machine is short and my strides where longer than I wanted to go. It was 100F out and had things to do. I figured it was a good option. Hey, the treadmill had a fan and a place to plug in the ipod.
I treaded 3.5 miles of flat and hills. I really wanted to run off right on to the street. Things to do you know, had to go.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Wisconson
I am in Milwaukee. Staying in a hotel for a week for meetings. I am kind of trapped in the western part of town. I know Milwaukee is a great town, but I am not to excited about where I am trapped. It is a beautiful hotel. The food is not bad. The grounds are nice. But, there are no sidewalks or places to run without traffic. The hotel is on what seems to be a busy highway frontage. There is a nice road the goes into the nicest industrial park I have ever been in. Great landscaping, well taken care of warehouses. Which I have run through the last two days. Lots of traffic. People it seems that got out of there crappy light deprived warehouse jobs, that feel they need to drive the roads like the Nascar race they just missed because the worked the 2nd shift. A mile or so down I hit another four lane highway with no cross walks. On the other side I see a great wide paved trail that follows the highway but abruptly ends at city hall. The bright side is the weather is amazing. The locals think it is hot. No humidity so it feels cool and great wind off the lake.
It is not that bad, but I have been here for over three days and I love to explore. And there is no where to go but there. You would think there would be at least a sidewalk or something. I ran 5 miles on Monday and almost 5 on Tuesday. Monday I was a little over 8 minute miles and Tuesday 9. Today I took off.
I have been trying to eat light. I sit in meetings from 8 to 5 so running is a great escape and loosen me up. My blood has not been outrageous. A little higher than I like, but manageable.
It is not that bad, but I have been here for over three days and I love to explore. And there is no where to go but there. You would think there would be at least a sidewalk or something. I ran 5 miles on Monday and almost 5 on Tuesday. Monday I was a little over 8 minute miles and Tuesday 9. Today I took off.
I have been trying to eat light. I sit in meetings from 8 to 5 so running is a great escape and loosen me up. My blood has not been outrageous. A little higher than I like, but manageable.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Track Time
I went to the track yesterday. I do not mind going to the track. All the articles say you need to go to increase speed. God knows I need to increase my speed. I have been running pretty consistently for a good part of a year and it seems like I am caught in 9-10minute mile. I want to go faster. So I go to the track on Saturdays and run really hard and fast. It is nice I live one mile from a track. So I run a warm up to the track and a cool down back.
After my trail run on Friday my legs were stiff and hurting in unusual places. The mile warm up worked it out. There were several people on the track jogging. I would run a 400 as fast as I could and jog or walk a 400. I had a gel on the 5th. I think I did 6, I wanted to do a couple of 800 but I was out of gas and jogged home. I was running about 1:27 400. Good or bad that is as fast as I could go.
The best thing about going all out is I can pretty much eat what I want all day. I was about 60 when I got home. I ate and ate and gave myself little or no insulin and my blood never went over 100. When I run that hard to affect my sugar that much it makes me feel like I am not diabetic for a time. At night watching TV I had a ice cream sandwich (Skinny Cow) and popcorn with out taking insulin and when I woke up in the morning I was 40. I would have ate more but I was kind of sick of eating.
Today I am taking a off day, probably do some walking, biking and a little core. My calves are so sore. This week I will be in Milwakee in meetings. I will be in a hotel with no car so I hope I can find some places to run around the hotel.
After my trail run on Friday my legs were stiff and hurting in unusual places. The mile warm up worked it out. There were several people on the track jogging. I would run a 400 as fast as I could and jog or walk a 400. I had a gel on the 5th. I think I did 6, I wanted to do a couple of 800 but I was out of gas and jogged home. I was running about 1:27 400. Good or bad that is as fast as I could go.
The best thing about going all out is I can pretty much eat what I want all day. I was about 60 when I got home. I ate and ate and gave myself little or no insulin and my blood never went over 100. When I run that hard to affect my sugar that much it makes me feel like I am not diabetic for a time. At night watching TV I had a ice cream sandwich (Skinny Cow) and popcorn with out taking insulin and when I woke up in the morning I was 40. I would have ate more but I was kind of sick of eating.
Today I am taking a off day, probably do some walking, biking and a little core. My calves are so sore. This week I will be in Milwakee in meetings. I will be in a hotel with no car so I hope I can find some places to run around the hotel.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Overgrown
I really had planned to run last night, but time got away and I could not get out. A long trip back to KC from Salina. So today I thought I would make up for it and run a great trail closer to home. I love running trails and if I had more time to find them I would probably run trails all the time. The good trails in the Ozarks are both rough and hilly. On my way home from KC I stopped off at the Sac Woods Conservation land. The trails there are well marked and it is a great place to get some miles in. I had not been there since last fall, but we have had a lot of rain this summer and the a lot of the trails where grown up about knee high in grass and weeds. No big deal, but I had this fear of snakes. I did not see any, thank goodness. There are some great hills both up and down. Some of the hills I was on my tip toes to get up them, very steep. I went about 4 miles.
For some reason this week my sugar was high. I do not know why. I changed my infusion, my insulin. It seems from morning till dinner I was pegged between 200-350. When I stopped to run today I was on the higher end. I did not give myself a bolus. Did not turn my basal down and did not use any gel packs. When I finished I was 143 hills and all. I have no idea what the problem is, I will change my infusion again tonight.
For some reason this week my sugar was high. I do not know why. I changed my infusion, my insulin. It seems from morning till dinner I was pegged between 200-350. When I stopped to run today I was on the higher end. I did not give myself a bolus. Did not turn my basal down and did not use any gel packs. When I finished I was 143 hills and all. I have no idea what the problem is, I will change my infusion again tonight.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Flat
I am out in mid-Kansas today. I battled some high blood sugar in the morning and mid afternoon. I had pizza last night and that always creeps it up. After a lot of correction I got it down. It is always hard to do that driving all day. I really wanted to pull over and find a place to run, but I also wanted to make it to Salina at a decent time.
People think of Kansas as flat and boring. That is mostly a wrong assumption. For one thing, Georgia is the flattest state. Kansas is very hilly on the eastern side and flattens out in the west kind of.
Today I ran some flat. It was so flat I could actually see down the road 2.5 miles to my turn around spot. The road was loose sand and gravel. I drove it a little to kind of see where I wanted to run and had to be careful not to get out of the hard tire track or I would slide off or get stuck. It was great for running. Except of course when a car would come and I would be covered in dust. Not too many cars though. Fields lined the road mostly planted in really lush soy beans. Did you know 1 Kansas farmer feeds 128 people a year. That's what the sign says. The weather was perfect, 79F with a good breeze.
My sugar held true. I ate a IHOP about a hour before. Right across from the hotel. I did not give myself my full bolus and did not turn my basal down. I may have ran a little too soon after I ate because I got a side stitch in mile one. With some rhythmic breathing got rid of it. I did a little over 5 miles. My straight out and back.
People think of Kansas as flat and boring. That is mostly a wrong assumption. For one thing, Georgia is the flattest state. Kansas is very hilly on the eastern side and flattens out in the west kind of.
Today I ran some flat. It was so flat I could actually see down the road 2.5 miles to my turn around spot. The road was loose sand and gravel. I drove it a little to kind of see where I wanted to run and had to be careful not to get out of the hard tire track or I would slide off or get stuck. It was great for running. Except of course when a car would come and I would be covered in dust. Not too many cars though. Fields lined the road mostly planted in really lush soy beans. Did you know 1 Kansas farmer feeds 128 people a year. That's what the sign says. The weather was perfect, 79F with a good breeze.
My sugar held true. I ate a IHOP about a hour before. Right across from the hotel. I did not give myself my full bolus and did not turn my basal down. I may have ran a little too soon after I ate because I got a side stitch in mile one. With some rhythmic breathing got rid of it. I did a little over 5 miles. My straight out and back.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Plans changed, but I still got to run...
Last night right before dinner I thought I would go for a run. Tested my blood. It was 81. So I decided to wait until after dinner. Right after dinner my wife got a phone call from an old friend that wanted us to come over. I remembered there were some great places to run where she lived, So I devised a plan to drop my wife and daughter off and run and then come back to socialize. The plan was agreed to.
I was so glad to get on the road. I started out on a Greenway trail (paved) that went along a creek then onto a road that was very hilly. I looped around to where I began. The weather was around 80F, but it was steamy, my glasses kept fogging up. It was right at dusk so the lighting was great and it seems that it had rained not too long before.
For the first mile or two I felt really good. At mile two I sucked down an AccelGel (lime). Soon after I could tell my sugar was dipping. I hate that. I was having a great run and I started feeling a little light in the knees. I slowed my pace a bit and tried to enjoy the great night. My pump was turned down to 60% basal. Then at mile 3.5 the gel kicked in I was back. I ran just a bit harder to make up time and when I saw my car I did not want to stop, but it was getting dark and I am sure my wife was wondering where I was. I did five miles. Here's my map.
I was so glad to get on the road. I started out on a Greenway trail (paved) that went along a creek then onto a road that was very hilly. I looped around to where I began. The weather was around 80F, but it was steamy, my glasses kept fogging up. It was right at dusk so the lighting was great and it seems that it had rained not too long before.
For the first mile or two I felt really good. At mile two I sucked down an AccelGel (lime). Soon after I could tell my sugar was dipping. I hate that. I was having a great run and I started feeling a little light in the knees. I slowed my pace a bit and tried to enjoy the great night. My pump was turned down to 60% basal. Then at mile 3.5 the gel kicked in I was back. I ran just a bit harder to make up time and when I saw my car I did not want to stop, but it was getting dark and I am sure my wife was wondering where I was. I did five miles. Here's my map.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Here I go
I have been a diabetic for nearly 20 years. I was diagnosed my junior year in high school. No family history. The whole thing never really bothered me to much. I just went on with my life with great family support blood testing and shots. I have kept rather good control over time and have avoided any complications, thank goodness.
Almost 10 years ago I got a insulin pump. I love my insulin pump. It made life easier and my control tighter. I think every diabetic should have one.
After I was diagnosed I knew I needed some form of exercise. I was rather active anyway but needed more structure. I joined the cross-county team. I did not take it really serious, I ran off and on through college and the years that followed. I did not stick with it.
Now that I am in my late 30s it stuck. I have been running for over a year. I really enjoy it a have been keeping motivated. I ran a 25K trail run last fall and have several 5ks and a half planned for the fall.
Running with diabetes is not hard, but it does pose a little more of a challenge. Keeping your blood sugar in check while logging miles is always fun.
Almost 10 years ago I got a insulin pump. I love my insulin pump. It made life easier and my control tighter. I think every diabetic should have one.
After I was diagnosed I knew I needed some form of exercise. I was rather active anyway but needed more structure. I joined the cross-county team. I did not take it really serious, I ran off and on through college and the years that followed. I did not stick with it.
Now that I am in my late 30s it stuck. I have been running for over a year. I really enjoy it a have been keeping motivated. I ran a 25K trail run last fall and have several 5ks and a half planned for the fall.
Running with diabetes is not hard, but it does pose a little more of a challenge. Keeping your blood sugar in check while logging miles is always fun.
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