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<blockquote data-quote="three1ne" data-source="post: 79739" data-attributes="member: 14563"><p>Hi Emma.</p><p></p><p>I dont really feel confident enough to give you advice so instead I thought id let you know a bit about me as I run a lot and may be you can take something from my results.</p><p></p><p>18 to 2 seems a crazy range. Are you running soon after an injection? </p><p></p><p>For a while I had been running 4 times a week. 4 miles at a time. From the 20th May I increased this to twice a day, 4 times a week, 4 miles a time. Morning and Evening. </p><p></p><p>For my morning run, I always run before breakfast, and therefore, before I Inject. That way I can guarantee a balanced sugar level throughout (normally around 6-7) plus I always have a Dextro tablet before hand. Unfortunately im struggling with waking up early and currently start my run around 9am - 10:30am. Which means I have been eating breakfast as late as 11:50am which isn't ideal as today when I came back from my run (11:15am) my sugar level was 9.5 which I assume is because my insulin from dinner time last night has all run out.</p><p></p><p>As little as 6 months ago (when I ran after dinner) I wouldnt run unless my BL was 14. Still the same 4 miles. I would come back and often be in the low 4s, high 3s. Even though I felt I needed my BL at around 14 to be able to sustain a run I wasnt comfortable with the double figures and questioned this at my clinic. I was recommended no higher than 12BL. I still wasnt too comfortable with this. I was also recommended to take some biscuits out with me. I actually laughed when I was told this. Why dont I just take a picnic out with me? Lug a picnic blanket over my shoulders and wrap myself up in a windbreaker..</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I learnt, through the help of these forums (Fergus was noticeably very helpful) that my carb intake was too much. I also wasnt injecting at lunch time. Basically because I was a little naive, although that came from some bad advice from my clinic who were telling me I had perfect control (top 5% of diabetics) which was an outright lie, which lead me to eat what I wanted without almost no thought at all. Anyway, thats all mentioned in another thread.</p><p></p><p>Taking the advice from this forum led to a more concious diet. My sugar levels were more stable and I ended up confident about running with a starting sugar level of 6-8BL. Which would normally end up no lower than middle 4s after my run.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="three1ne, post: 79739, member: 14563"] Hi Emma. I dont really feel confident enough to give you advice so instead I thought id let you know a bit about me as I run a lot and may be you can take something from my results. 18 to 2 seems a crazy range. Are you running soon after an injection? For a while I had been running 4 times a week. 4 miles at a time. From the 20th May I increased this to twice a day, 4 times a week, 4 miles a time. Morning and Evening. For my morning run, I always run before breakfast, and therefore, before I Inject. That way I can guarantee a balanced sugar level throughout (normally around 6-7) plus I always have a Dextro tablet before hand. Unfortunately im struggling with waking up early and currently start my run around 9am - 10:30am. Which means I have been eating breakfast as late as 11:50am which isn't ideal as today when I came back from my run (11:15am) my sugar level was 9.5 which I assume is because my insulin from dinner time last night has all run out. As little as 6 months ago (when I ran after dinner) I wouldnt run unless my BL was 14. Still the same 4 miles. I would come back and often be in the low 4s, high 3s. Even though I felt I needed my BL at around 14 to be able to sustain a run I wasnt comfortable with the double figures and questioned this at my clinic. I was recommended no higher than 12BL. I still wasnt too comfortable with this. I was also recommended to take some biscuits out with me. I actually laughed when I was told this. Why dont I just take a picnic out with me? Lug a picnic blanket over my shoulders and wrap myself up in a windbreaker.. Anyway, I learnt, through the help of these forums (Fergus was noticeably very helpful) that my carb intake was too much. I also wasnt injecting at lunch time. Basically because I was a little naive, although that came from some bad advice from my clinic who were telling me I had perfect control (top 5% of diabetics) which was an outright lie, which lead me to eat what I wanted without almost no thought at all. Anyway, thats all mentioned in another thread. Taking the advice from this forum led to a more concious diet. My sugar levels were more stable and I ended up confident about running with a starting sugar level of 6-8BL. Which would normally end up no lower than middle 4s after my run. [/QUOTE]
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