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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JD101" data-source="post: 2681999" data-attributes="member: 585886">Hi,I am T1 and have done more about 315 Parkruns over 15 years so can understand some of the challenges. A couple of things to point out / consider;1) Most places have events starting at 9am, but in Scotland they start at 9.30am. Depending where you live, it might be interesting to try doing one or two there - on a purely practical level I much prefer the 9am start but my BMs have generally been more conducive to doing a bit better when having the later run time.2) If you are properly into your running and don't want your results to be impacted (I understand this is the case for most regular parkrunners) I would massively recommend trying to do the usual course / route at 9am on a different day - you can log it as a 'notparkrun' should you wish, but take a BM kit, check just before starting, half-way through and straight after finishing. You can pause your watch / tracking app when you stop part-way through. If you do this a few times, it will give you a good data set to have a better idea what is happening between 9.00 and 9.24am on Saturdays.I did this over the course of 2-3 weeks several years ago when I was running parkruns every week, several 10ks and a number of half-marathons, and would tend to use my short, medium and long-distance training runs as diabetes training too - taking my BM kit and stopping every 5k to do a quick BM and make a note of the result on my phone, before continuing on. Sure, this was a pain at the time, but the trends I could spot and data I interpreted from it has helped me pre-empt what my BM will likely do, depending on the length of the run and my pace.As I say, I get the reluctance to impact your recorded time, so go again at 9am on a Sunday for 4-5 weeks, do your usual Saturday thing but test before, during and after when doing that.I find that my blood sugar has / does generally rise for the first 3-4km then will plateau and then start to drop - what I noticed (in my longer runs - ie. 10km - 22km) was it would then tend to drop by about 4 for every additional 5k I did. This then helped me to pre-emptively take jelly babies / gels at appropriate times for diabetes when I was doing organised HMs. It will be a chew to do, but I expect you will get a benefit from the data it offers. I've had recent (and ongoing) health issues which have meant I have had to reduce the distances I do (6.5km has been my longest in the last 9 months), but despite this undiagnosed / current 'mystery' health issue, the data and knowledge I got 7/8 years ago still holds some relevance. Hope this helps, but let me know if you have any questions.</blockquote>

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