[Scratch]

Originally Posted by Dan Gato

Scratch, If you run this much. are you losing weight?
or you eat a lot of carbs to maintain your weight?
Your exercise routine is amazing !

I've had to cut down on the running this past month. I've been working a strengthening program as well, last month's running and the squats and deadlifts with the weight training really put the mosh on me. I'm only going to get around 47 miles of running this month, but I needed to let the body recover some.

But actually right now I've been putting on weight. Back in October and November, I was usually 140 to 142 lbs or so; this past week on the scale in the morning I've been weighing in at 148 to 150 lbs. Since I'm trying to put on muscle weight, that means I've been eating a lot more protein, eggs, milk, tuna. If I weren't eating all that protein, I'd probably still be down in the low 140s.

My concept and notions of fitness have changed some over the past year as I've done the training, the work, the learning. But I'm glad I've done so. It takes committment, but having done so has improved my diet and sense of physical well-being. It sure would be nice if I could do it without all the fuss and mess of type 1 diabetes, but that fuss and mess can be dealt with.

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Did the same 3.1 mile route I did last Sunday morning, did it 48 seconds faster this time. It's a tough run, it's mostly downhill to the halfway point out, so coming back is mostly uphill. Also pleased that I did it faster considering I ran more miles the day before and also back on Thursday I did a hard set of squats. Last weekend, my legs had felt very fresh when starting out, today I didn't have the same feeling of freshness but was still able to run with better pace.

[Scratch]

3.3 miles after work, on a day that has turned into a rather lovely spring day, sunny. It was dark and wet early on.

The run was a bit tough though. I got up early this morning to do a hard set of squats and my legs could feel it out there this afternoon. But I had to do the squats today -- tomorrow I'm going to the lab to get blood drawn, HbA1c and lipid profile, so for the lipids I need to be fasting. Didn't want to do the hard squats and not be able to eat. Thursday is no good this week for squatting because there's a 5K race on Saturday I'd like to do, I want my legs to be fairly fresh.

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I ran 3.4 miles after work yesterday, went pretty well although I was annoyed again by wind and after about 1.5 miles my legs felt the effects some of the heavy deadlifts I had done early in the morning.

Things are looking good though to run a 5K race tomorrow morning. I hope to improve on my last 5K race time and it should be fun I hope.

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The 5K race went okay. Beat my last 5K race time by around 5 or 6 seconds, legs felt a bit tired from squatting on Tuesday and deadlifting on Thursday. I also raced at my highest bodyweight ever, when I checked on the scale this morning it was 150.4 lbs. That's about 6 lbs heavier than I was back on 12-30-2007. I guess I have been putting on some muscle weight.

Blood sugar was 153 40 minutes before the race. Injected 2u of Novolog, at race end blood sugar was 164.

[Eddy]

Originally Posted by Scratch

I
I should have taken cues from how much my blood sugar rose with the coffee.

After seeing your HDL, I just had to follow your signature links. FWIW, coffee spikes my BG. Depending how much coffee I drink, it'll raise me as much as 50 mg/dL or so per hour, for several hours.

[Scratch]

Originally Posted by Eddy

After seeing your HDL, I just had to follow your signature links. FWIW, coffee spikes my BG. Depending how much coffee I drink, it'll raise me as much as 50 mg/dL or so per hour, for several hours.

Yeah, I know coffee has some effect on me. It's not always exact and varies some, and I've read up on how it seems caffeine can lead to a bit of insulin resistance.

I've been tracking the running efforts mostly in this thread, but after Broad Street next month, I need to start up a new journal about the workouts I do. I started off mostly with running, but over the past few months I've adopted in a much more comprehensive working out methodology with a fair bit of strength training too.

[Eddy]

Originally Posted by Scratch

Yeah, I know coffee has some effect on me. It's not always exact and varies some, and I've read up on how it seems caffeine can lead to a bit of insulin resistance.

The max rate at which coffee raises me is about equivalent to what I'd rise if I had no basal. (1.29U/hr * 35mg/dL/U) Perhaps there is insulin resistance, but I suspect there's also more glucose being generated... maybe there's some truth to the "diet" products that contain caffeine.

Originally Posted by Scratch

I've been tracking the running efforts mostly in this thread, but after Broad Street next month, I need to start up a new journal about the workouts I do. I started off mostly with running, but over the past few months I've adopted in a much more comprehensive working out methodology with a fair bit of strength training too.

Cool. I'll be keeping watch.

Thanks for sharing! I, for one, am eager to get back to exercising... and first-hand stories and trends are exactly what I need. The motivation and inspiration don't hurt, either. Thanks again!

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I did a short run last evening, legs felt tired some, maybe leftover fatigue from the 5K race on Saturday and the tabata squats I did Sunday morning.

The organization that handles timing of a lot of the 5K events I run at usually has a person snapping some photos and I actually ended up in one of the pictures on Saturday.



I'm not exactly in the front of that picture, pehaps we should crop away some and blow up a portion in the background.



I'm right behind the guy in the yellow shirt. IIRC I'd end up passing him after we had made the lollipop loop around Frawley Stadium.

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Put in 4.2 miles today, it warmed up so much and quickly it felt almost hot out there. Legs were feeling very tired, a heavy squat workout yesterday morning combined with deadlifts this morning took some of the starch out of my legs I guess.

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I just finished up the most brutal workout I've ever done.

It's taken from Crossfit and it's called Murphy.

First run a mile.
Then do 100 pull ups, 200 push ups, and 300 squats.
Then go run another mile.

It took me 58:31, blood sugar was 112 mg/dl before starting, I drank a bit of milk, blood sugar was still 112 halfway through and 137 at the end.

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I ran 3.4 miles yesterday, legs felt pretty decent after taking 2 rest days following the Murphy workout.

Also did some strength stuff with push presses, pull ups, dumbbell swings and bench presses.

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I did 5 miles yesterday. Felt a sense of overall fatigue yesterday, maybe from the deadlifting on Wednesday morning. Deadlifts are a brutal kind of lift when going heavy on them and basically trying to pick up as much as weight you can up off the ground.

Super nice weather yesterday. Felt almost a bit hot.

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Yesterday was an anniversary date. April 21 last year after some weeks walking and seeing how my ankle handled that, I ran a few laps around a high school track and embarked on a 7 month plan to run a half-marathon.

The only running I did over the weekend was on Sunday. I warmed up, then ran 10 400m intervals with 200m of recovery in between.

I'm unsure some what's going to happen at Broad Street in a couple of weekends. I haven't been running so much and that's been a result of the other workouts I've been doing along with some squatting and deadlifting. We'll see what happens. The important thing is that I am much fitter than I was this time last year and it's all about doing the working out with persistence and consistency. You need to take some breathers and breaks sometimes, but if you want to get in better shape, you just got to keep working at it.

Fitness has to be worked for and if there's one thing I'm **** sure of now, it's that the vast majority of people in this world aren't anywhere close to what could be their peak fitness. I know I'm still not there and I can do a heck of a lot more than most anyone I come across now.

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I ran yesterday afternoon, about 3.4 miles, legs were kind of dead feeling from a workout in the morning when I did a total of 45 reps of 65lb thrusters (basically front squats that go up into an overhead press of the weight, back down, repeat). So I ran the miles that I could.

This morning I did deadlifts, my last hard strength workout before Broad Street, time to back off and let the body recover as much as possible.