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<blockquote data-quote="spideog" data-source="post: 229399" data-attributes="member: 31176"><p>Just did another marathon the weekend just gone, but my first since I got fitted with the insulin pump. Biggest difference was that I didn't need to carry anywhere near as many gels on me in order to last the distance as before. With the previous marathon last October I got through 9 gels I think it was and that gets quite sickly by the end, quite apart from it being a pain to be carrying that many of them from the start. This time I made it round only needing to take 3 gels and the BG levels were 7.0 at the finish which is about as good as you can get. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>With the pump and therefore taking the amount of insulin appropriate to what you are doing, by changing the basal levels on the fly, makes things much better for exercise. On injections it's much more difficult as you have to take sugar to deal with the amount of insulin that you may have taken 24+ hours before the exercise which is completely back to front way of doing things.</p><p></p><p>Now to get some decent training in before London next year and go for a properly decent time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spideog, post: 229399, member: 31176"] Just did another marathon the weekend just gone, but my first since I got fitted with the insulin pump. Biggest difference was that I didn't need to carry anywhere near as many gels on me in order to last the distance as before. With the previous marathon last October I got through 9 gels I think it was and that gets quite sickly by the end, quite apart from it being a pain to be carrying that many of them from the start. This time I made it round only needing to take 3 gels and the BG levels were 7.0 at the finish which is about as good as you can get. :D With the pump and therefore taking the amount of insulin appropriate to what you are doing, by changing the basal levels on the fly, makes things much better for exercise. On injections it's much more difficult as you have to take sugar to deal with the amount of insulin that you may have taken 24+ hours before the exercise which is completely back to front way of doing things. Now to get some decent training in before London next year and go for a properly decent time. [/QUOTE]
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