I have signed myself up for the Great Manchester Run, 10km to raise money for Diabetes UK.
I have never been a runner, but started last year and loved it. So this year i'm going for it! (my friend has joined me too)
If anyone has any tips or advice for me I would very much appreciate it. So far i'm comfortable with a hilly 4 miler, so not doing too bad. the things i'm worrying about on the day mainly is sugar levels of course. Aim to start on a hearty fryup (low carb) with maybe a big treat by ways of a slice of granary bread, toasted, thick with butter (yuuuuuum) or a milky coffee. My sugars are very sensitive, 150ml of milk can raise me 4mmol! If anyone has any better suggestions i'd be interested to hear them. I usually cant handle carbs at all in a morning.
I'll be running with a camel pack so enough room for my testing kit and some dextrose tablets (just in case) but so far on my training my sugars, after a low carb breakfast (eggs and bacon), have gone up to about 8mmol during the run (30mins in and sweating like a right un) but then back down to 4-5mmol afterwards.
As I said any advice would be much appreciated and of course if anyone would like to sponsor me (cheeky ask and had to be done
) for such a great cause you can do so here http://www.justgiving.com/TeamFoxyPratt2012
I have never been a runner, but started last year and loved it. So this year i'm going for it! (my friend has joined me too)
If anyone has any tips or advice for me I would very much appreciate it. So far i'm comfortable with a hilly 4 miler, so not doing too bad. the things i'm worrying about on the day mainly is sugar levels of course. Aim to start on a hearty fryup (low carb) with maybe a big treat by ways of a slice of granary bread, toasted, thick with butter (yuuuuuum) or a milky coffee. My sugars are very sensitive, 150ml of milk can raise me 4mmol! If anyone has any better suggestions i'd be interested to hear them. I usually cant handle carbs at all in a morning.
I'll be running with a camel pack so enough room for my testing kit and some dextrose tablets (just in case) but so far on my training my sugars, after a low carb breakfast (eggs and bacon), have gone up to about 8mmol during the run (30mins in and sweating like a right un) but then back down to 4-5mmol afterwards.
As I said any advice would be much appreciated and of course if anyone would like to sponsor me (cheeky ask and had to be done
) for such a great cause you can do so here http://www.justgiving.com/TeamFoxyPratt2012