| Had a lot of things go badly at my first 10K race yesterday.
First problem came from me having a hypo overnight and then a liver rebound. My blood sugar upon waking up was ~250 mg/dl, this after I had checked my glucose at 1:30 and it was ~90 mg/dl, when I ate a glucose tablet as that usually keeps me pretty steady or I rise slightly. But for unknown reasons, my liver didn't wake up and I must have hypoed maybe around 4:30 to 5 AM.
I was able to get my blood sugar corrected to about~140 mg/dl near race time. But my body just didn't feel all that great, you know what I mean if when you've had a hypo and a big adrenaline release earlier, afterwards you feel a bit washed out.
And it was hot. It was humid. Really bad for September.
The course was tough. Quite hilly. I got through the first loop of it okay enough if I had been running a 5K, but when I hit that second go at the uphill at the start of the loop for the second lap, it crushed me. I began walking near the top and would do alternating walking and running for the second half of the race.
The end result was a performance much slower than I would have liked even in more conservative projections of 66 minutes if I was slow out there. It took me 73.5 minutes to finish the whole 10K.
I was pretty upset about all of it, about being diabetic, about the weather, about my mistake of not scaling back and starting off easy and slow so I might finish strong over the way it went out there.
I'm processing all of it better as time has passed. Some bad luck, some bad circumstances, a few errors in judgment on my part made for a really tough race. Even so, even at the worst when it would have been easy to say screw it, give up and not finish, I finished it. That's worth something there. | 
