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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wetmoose1960" data-source="post: 200081" data-attributes="member: 35438">I'm American, so I don't know your glucose measurement system, but I've run about 25 marathons with Type 1 and have worked out a simple but effective method.  I suspend my pump before starting .  I get my sugar fairly high, but not excessive(250 by my system), then I drink a swallow of some sort of sugar drink every mile.  I carry one of those little plastic flasks.  As simple as this sounds, it has worked very well so far over the past 10 years.  My sugars are ususally very good at the finish, I seldom get lows(but I have had some), and I get to finish line.  I think it just keeps the sugars level over the course of a long workout.  I would suggest trying this drink per mile method on short runs, and work up.  I have done a couple of 50 mile races using this system, and don't see a limit besides the sore feet.Also, before I got the pump about two years ago, this same method worked just fine.</blockquote>

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