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<blockquote data-quote="bgst" data-source="post: 1489398" data-attributes="member: 411804"><p>Alhubb,</p><p></p><p>Great news that you are running!</p><p></p><p>I have been fortunate enough to complete a number of ironmans and marathons with diabetes. The minute I started training regularly with any high mileage my overall insulin requirements decreased (both basal and bolus). I would definitely recommend that you decrease your basal insulin. However, the question is by how much?</p><p></p><p>I found that as I increased my mileage and frequency of training my basal insulin requirements continued to drop. If I then stopped exercising I found I had about a 3 day lag before my insulin requirements started to increase again.</p><p></p><p>Other thing to do is to reduce your bolus insulin in the meal before you run, but again you need to work out how much to reduce it by. I generally found that knocking 1/3 of the insulin off my pre-run insulin (if run c. 2 hours after injection) worked well. But I would then start the run with BG slightly higher than "normal" and run risk that if I ran further than planned I would need to have more carbs en route.</p><p></p><p>Hope that gives you a little food for thought, but remember each of us is different so you will need to work out how to make your diabetes work for your running.</p><p></p><p>Bryan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bgst, post: 1489398, member: 411804"] Alhubb, Great news that you are running! I have been fortunate enough to complete a number of ironmans and marathons with diabetes. The minute I started training regularly with any high mileage my overall insulin requirements decreased (both basal and bolus). I would definitely recommend that you decrease your basal insulin. However, the question is by how much? I found that as I increased my mileage and frequency of training my basal insulin requirements continued to drop. If I then stopped exercising I found I had about a 3 day lag before my insulin requirements started to increase again. Other thing to do is to reduce your bolus insulin in the meal before you run, but again you need to work out how much to reduce it by. I generally found that knocking 1/3 of the insulin off my pre-run insulin (if run c. 2 hours after injection) worked well. But I would then start the run with BG slightly higher than "normal" and run risk that if I ran further than planned I would need to have more carbs en route. Hope that gives you a little food for thought, but remember each of us is different so you will need to work out how to make your diabetes work for your running. Bryan [/QUOTE]
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