Hi
@Charlotte.beadling - wow, what a fantastic challenge!
Thanks for the introduction,
@therower !
Charlotte I'm in foot rehab at the moment, having mildly wrecked it running (I broke my rule about not running on consecutive days and massively overdid it on frozen ground two days in a row) which has been very frustrating!
My distance is generally only 5km (parkrun and local running club) but I've done a couple of 5-milers and a 10km, and other bits in between.
I'm pretty new to this running lark, and have been out of action for a few weeks now - but I'm swimming 5 times a week to keep up my cardiovascular fitness, and I'm powerwalking 'hilly terrain' on the treadmill in the gym. Today my osteopath has passed me fit to RUN again, but only on the treadmill, not outside yet.
Being high makes me very lethargic too. I like to run in the morning, after breakfast. I have my normal bolus insulin and 2 boiled eggs, then about 20 minutes before my run I turn my pump's basal rate down to 50%, which means I'm around about the 7mmol/l mark while I'm running.
That works well for 5km. Exercise makes me go high immediately afterwards, so I turn the basal tap up to 150% for an hour or two. And I LOWER my basal 6-8 hours after a run, as otherwise I have afternoon hypos.
If I'm running in the evening I'll have a snack before I go out, and have a late tea when I get in.
My pre and post run snacks tend to be eggs, cheese, pate or Peperami, unless I'm below 5mmol/l before running, in which case I'll have a bite or two of a banana. I generally fuel myself with fat and protein rather than carbs, and because I have a pump I am able to keep my levels steady with that. (Just to clarify this, I find my blood glucose much easier to control using the LCHF eating style, so I eat probably around 60g carbohydrate in a day, keeping my 'get up and go' going with gorgeous stuff like avocado, cheese, bacon and other such yummy fatty things.)
For the 5-milers and the 10km I've done, I've erred on the side of caution and reduced my basal to a mere 20% from halfway through the run. So 50% to start with, then down to 20%, to ward off hypos. If I didn't have a pump I would probably want to take on some pre-emptive glucose at this point.
I'm doing a 10k event in April (foot-permitting!) and am in huge awe of your fabulous Great North Run plans! I'm not an expert by any means, but I think if I were training for 13 miles I would try to get some predictability to my patterns by testing before, during and after training runs in the run-up to the event, so as to get to know how my body behaves, and then going for it, ensuring I had test kit and glucose to hand.
I've recently bought (to spur me on to get back out there training) a tiny little running rucksack so I can be certain I have everything on me on my longer runs. For parkrun I have my Libre sensor on my arm and the reader shoved in my bra, and some glucose tablets in my pocket.
The rucksack is for running on my own, in which case it will contain my full test kit, Libre reader, glucose tablets, phone and a Peperami. Or maybe even two....
Keep us posted with how it's going! I'm really missing my running and am getting parkrun withdrawal symptoms. And I was aiming to do a challenging 10km trail run on Sunday - waaaaaaaaah, not a chance!
Love Snapsy
PS 'Legend'
@therower ? You do make me laugh........!