Switching to some morning runs/workouts

[tcc123]

Hey everyone. Just looking for some advice on switching to morning workouts. So far I have always worked out or ran arounf 4 hours after taking my last injection of novolog. So normally its in the afternoon or evening. However I want to start doing some morning runs because it takes up too much of my day and is cutting into studying and relaxing time. I was wondering what everyone else does for morning workouts. Do you eat some fast acting carbs before workouts? and do you take insulin with that or not? Right now I am taking runs that average about 6 miles or so with long runs about 10 miles. To even keep my bs from going low I have to have about 50 g pure glucose (like an energy drink). The one time I did try and run in the morning I didn't eat and felt like I was goin to die
Thanks
Cary

[Scratch]

You'll have to find what works for you.

If I run in the mornings shortly after waking up, I need a small injection of Novolog on top of my Lantus basal to keep my blood sugars from going upwards. This is in contrast to the afternoons when I don't want any Novolog in my system ideally, or if I do have Novolog, I make an estimate of how much will be used while I run and then ingest about 2x my usual carb to insulin units ratio to cover it and try to keep my blood sugars from going down too low while running.

But roughly based off the numbers you gave, you may find you still need to ingest some carbohydrate beforehand. But that all depends on your basal metabolism.

[tcc123]

Yeah... everything that happens with my blood sugars seems to be different than other people. This is partly due to the fact that I am definitely still in somewhat of a honeymoon. I need full novolog doses (about 1unit/10carbs) but my lantus is 10 units daily.
The main thing I wanna make sure and do is have enough energy for workouts in the mornings, and advice for runners w/o diabetes is to have some sort of fast acting carbs that are easy on the stomach and then eat a more substantial breakfast afterwards. I may try this w/o taking insulin and see what happens. (might end up with a bad high.. but better than some of the bad lows I have had while running).

I saw your thread about the half marathon you did, good job. I am halfway planning on doing one April 2nd if I can get enough time in to train and don't have an extreme amount of school work that next week. It will be my first, but since I am already at about 10 miles on long runs I think its a very doable goal

[Scratch]

If you're already up to 10 miles on long runs, you should be in good shape to prep for April 2nd. I used a long and drawn out preparation of around 7 months to get me ready for that first one last year, I hit 10 miles on a long run in September and edged my way up to doing 13.1 miles 2 weeks before the half-marathon. But lots of half-marathon training plans only go up to 10 miles on the long runs. I just found it useful and reassuring to my own mind to have done the 13.1 and firm up my confidence that I had gotten a good enough sense and theoretical model of how to handle to my insulin, food intake, and activity.

Just try to keep track of your numbers and monitor the effects on the blood sugars.

Even now, almost 3 months after doing my first one, I still get kind of blown away thinking of how I felt when I came around the last curve of the circle in front of the Philadelphia Art Museum. One of the best feelings I've ever known in my life.