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Originally Posted by chinku  And all you people going on long hours for run and Ride what is your diet like before starting the training and how you make sure you are in that perfect range (glucose levels) all the time ?.
Great going Scratch and please keep us posted about your road to the marathon and how you keep ur motivation alive all the time.
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I believe there's some individual variation, and I think that maybe I seem to be somewhat lucky that I don't have too much trouble with my blood sugars veering all over the place from exercise. The best you can do is take notes -- know how much insulin you have in your system, test before and after exercise, along with some way of monitoring the exertion level. The way I monitor the last bit of exertion level is using a heart rate monitor, HRM, to help me make sense of that.
The HRM has definitely shown me that the higher the exertion and that the closer to anaerobic threshold I go, the more of a liver dump I get. Last Saturday's 5K, I planned on running it at 160 bpm or more, which was going to put me at around 90% of my heart rate maximum.
I injected 2u of Novolog 30 minutes before the race, when my blood sugar was 125 mg/dl. After the race, I was 187 mg/dl. On the other hand, if I had done the same and run with a heart rate down in the 130s at that time in the morning, I probably would have seen my blood sugar remain stable or drop slightly.
But there'll be variance some day-to-day, and variance among individuals, so you just got to make notes and do the best you can.
I usually try to start my workouts above 100 mg/dl and up to 150 mg/dl. If I'm low, I'll put some carbs in my system.
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I did a bike ride after work yesterday for some more crosstraining. Managed my fastest pace yet, 12.64 mph when I covered 11.65 miles in 55:27.
I've also decided to make my training log at Runningahead.com open to public viewing so anyone who's interested in seeing a record of my workouts can look at them. I'll see about adding information about my blood sugars and insulin doses for the workouts as well, as that may be useful to me and others.
Scratch's Training Log click here
