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Do you eat or drink any kind of sports drink while training? I am on a pump so it is a little bit different for me, but I have found that if I cut my basal back to 20-25% of the original basal rate, and suck down an energy gel (25 grams carbs) every 4 or 5 miles, I can run without ever going low and finish with a great BG.
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Often I don't have to eat or drink anything. I try to get my blood sugar level to around 140 to 150 mg/dl at the beginning and I will leak around 10 carbs worth per hour. 10 carbs comes out to around 35 mg/dl of value for me, so starting at that level, I can go around 2 hours without needing to add any fuel.
I don't know why this is, based upon what I've read about other type 1's experiences with blood sugars and insulin levels during exercise. I've got some sort of strangeness to my metabolic situation my daily basal shot works just fine and I can go exercising fairly easily with hardly any worry of going low. Although that's not entirely true, back in late 2007 when I switched over from my old regimen of 2 NPH shots, correct with R, feed the insulin, to MDI, my basal shot was much larger, 24 units. On heavy exercise days, like when I would go golfing, walk and play 18 holes, my blood sugars would tend to plummet.
But I kept getting more active having more freedom with MDI and I became active every day. Even when I went down with the broken leg, then I began doing upper body strengthening and maintained activity level. So now I run on a basal shot of 15u per day and it works very nicely, except for my tendency to drop a lot from 10 PM til around 2 AM. And I also have to use 1 unit of Novolog in the morning to supplement my basal, so I guess my basal is more like 16u per day.
I guess it's all because of how active I try to be and that my metabolic variance isn't a widely humping curve that everything works very nicely for me without having to worry about using a pump to adjust basal rates.
