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Today I ran my first half marathon during my training. My plan was to run 10 k but then my form was good after 2 recovery weeks after my last triathlon for the season, so I made it a half marathon. Since I was in the US (Maryland) I had no mobile data, so no glucose on my Garmin Forerunner 955...

True. But the description of this Olympic triathlon is still very valuable even though it is from 2015.

I use continuous glucose monitoring (Abbot Libre 2 or 3) with my mobile phone as the reader. Mobile phones and smartwatches are banned by the official rules, so you have to ask the technical director ahead of the competition. I have performed in 5 triathlons since August 2022 (all in Norway)...

I, too, noted that my cycling lactate curve has a hump. I don't have any explanation yet. I still have no data on why my DIY lactate curves showed such an early rise at low activity level. I maintain my ketoacidosis hypothesis but I have no measurements to support it as yet. The important thing...

Thanks a lot for pointing out that my full name was in the screenshot. This wasn't intentional, but I don't mind. I decided long ago that I am not going to keep my diabetes secret. The results of the competitions including the full names of the competitors are online anyway; that's part of the...

Excellent! I, too, did an Olympic triathlon this year, but being M60 I needed 3:01:53.

Stig at terskeltest.no knows his stuff. He sent me instructions a week before. I was forbidden to train the day before the test. I needed to take the bus as I was to warm up under his supervision. On Monday at 8:40 we tested my lactate threshold for running and then my VO2 max. On Wednesday at...

Time for me to report the latest results. I concluded the season with the Triatlon Sprint at Os on 10 Sept 2024. This year it was cold and raining.The transition zone was a mud bath. So I was 2 min slower than last year My total was 1:31:04 h (2022: 1:29:08): 18:43 for the 750 m swim (2022...

Another important detail: Since July I managed to connect my Abbot Libre 3 CGM to my Garmin Forerunner 955 so that I get my blood glucose on my watch. I can then fine tune my blood glucose by drinking High 5 sports drink. Last time I did this on my Triathlon Sprint on Sunday. My watch had missed...

I successfully re-engineered the TaiDoc meter. Each batch of strips (be it lactate or ketone) comes with a coding chip. The chip contains a batch specific number such as 180, apparently for calibration. However, it also contains the batch's expiry date. If the batch is expired, you will get...

I personally fill a squishy bottle such as the Osprey Hydraulics 500ml SoftFlask with High5 sportsdrikk and hold it in my hand while running 5 km. 2 such bottles and 2 hands for 10 km. No sloshing. Can be stashed away when empty.

I wear a Garmin Forerunner 955. It can be paired with xDrip running on your phone and display your blood glucose from a CGM in real time.

For me, all generations of Libre (1, 2 and 3) stayed on despite my doing regular swim/triathlon training, without any aids. I would try the sensor without any add-ons first.

I am 59,183 cm, 87 kg. 4 years ago I started getting insulin resistance on top of my DM1 (which I have since 2004). I got rid of insulin resistance by losing 15 kg (I was 100 kg in 2019) through some dietary adjustments (no more cake, only 70+ % cocoa chocolate) combined with aggressive training...

You also need some amount of insulin to fend off ketoacidosis.

M60. DM1 since 2004, MDI. Cycle some 80 km/week all year round. Did 3 triathlon sprints (750 m open water swim, 20 km bike, 5 km run) in 2022 and my first Olympic triathlon (twice the distance) in 2023. xDrip on my Garmin Forerunner 955 has been a game changer!

I decided a pedal power meter was easier to move between bikes, but in the end I equipped both bikes with a Garmin Rally RK 100. I would expect that all surrogate measures of functional threshold are somehow correlated - be they based on actual lactate testing (gold standard in non-diabetics; I...

I found this review on hand-held meters. They are reasonably cheap (cheaper than lactate meters and testing strips) https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/keto/best-ketone-meter Probably a better option than a continuous sensor. I am very dependent on my Abbott Libre 3 CGM. I already had a...

Google came up with a new advertisement just for me: A continuous ketone monitor: https://www.sibiosensor.com/products/sibio-ks1-continuous-ketone-monitoring-sensor The advert looks serious enough, but I would wait for reviews before buying it. I am now in the tail end of my yearly training...

That's why taking a 30 min time trial at maximum steady state effort for the sole purpose of estimating one's lactate threshold is not a good idea. I reserve this kind of effort for competitions (which makes the data from competition so interesting.) That's why actual lactate measurements are...