St. Patrick's Day 5K

[kstreeter513]

As many of you know, I love to run. Today we had a local 5K, and I was quite successful. Out of over 500 people I finished 9th (2nd in my age division!!). With a time of 18:06. Here is a URL to view results: 5K Race Results. (http://www.fleetfeetstl.com/racetiming/results/ST_PATS_COL_5K_OA.HTM) They spelled my name wrong though. It should have been Streeter. That's a personal record for me. I have been training for about three months now for a marathon in St. Louis in April. I am very excited about that. I hope to do well, and the diabetes will not interfere with that!!

Today after the race, about an hour after the finish, I checked my blood sugar and holy ****...403:eek: . I adjusted insulin the same before the race as I always do in training, but I think the pre-race nerves, followed by the surge of adrenalin I defiantly felt when the finish line was in sight and I saw that I was way ahead of my goal attributed to that.

But anyway I thought I'd share this with you guys. And I only hope the diabetes will treat me the same in the marathon as it does during training so I am not running high for three or four straight hours.

--Kyle

[Scratch]

Great time. You got some speed.

Yeah, 5K races can do that to you. You're basically running up at the redline between aerobic and anaerobic, so the liver starts dumping glucose and I suspect sometimes stress hormones promote insulin resistance.

It's unlikely you'll get a spike like that in the marathon though. I'd also guess if you try to run for any prolonged period of time and it got that high, you would feel it in your legs.

[jerryn]

Wow! 5k in under 20 minutes, that's awesome!

The same glucose spikes happens to me, I'm actaully going to ask the Dr. about it. It's funny, you figure when you play sports that the glucose would drop big time. When I get home I test expecting an awesome number.. and it's 240 or so. Scratch, the pain I get in my legs after playing soccer or running around could actually be from the glucose spiking? How can I tell if it's just my shins acting up?

[kstreeter513]

Yeah, 5K races can do that to you. You're basically running up at the redline between aerobic and anaerobic, so the liver starts dumping glucose and I suspect sometimes stress hormones promote insulin resistance.

It's unlikely you'll get a spike like that in the marathon though. I'd also guess if you try to run for any prolonged period of time and it got that high, you would feel it in your legs.

So do you think I should use the temp basal in my pump for the marathon, the same as I use for training? My only concern is that since my anxiety will be high pre-race (and I know it will), that it will cause me to dump a little extra glucose from the liver.



The same glucose spikes happens to me, I'm actaully going to ask the Dr. about it. It's funny, you figure when you play sports that the glucose would drop big time. When I get home I test expecting an awesome number.. and it's 240 or so. Scratch, the pain I get in my legs after playing soccer or running around could actually be from the glucose spiking? How can I tell if it's just my shins acting up?

Ya, I'm going to have to ask the doc too. Maybe for the next one I'll try leaving my basal rate as normal (i.e. no temporary reduction in basal rate) and run a little high (150 or so) just in case and see what happens.

[Scratch]

So do you think I should use the temp basal in my pump for the marathon, the same as I use for training? My only concern is that since my anxiety will be high pre-race (and I know it will), that it will cause me to dump a little extra glucose from the liver.


That's going to be a real tough call. I don't know if there's a good way to predict exactly what will happen for you.

Just remembering back for me last November and my first go at a half-marathon, probably the smartest thing I did was just having everything ready that I could have ready. I had the training ready, my brother was good enough to handle driving me in and dropping me off right near the starting area so I didn't have to worry any about that.

Basically, have all your gear ready, have your training ready. Trust that, as best you can, trust that you're ready to go for it.

I was still nervous but all the extra nervous chances were minimized. Perhaps my other big thing was I basically used the first 2 miles or so to warm me up. It was after that I began to move up to my projected half-marathon pace and by that time I was fairly comfortable -- I was there, I was running with my plan, everything felt good.

That's the best I can do for you.

[Scratch]

Scratch, the pain I get in my legs after playing soccer or running around could actually be from the glucose spiking? How can I tell if it's just my shins acting up?

I don't think that pain would be from your glucose level spiking, but I could be wrong. Talk to your doctor about it.

[Kim_in_TN]

That's awesome, congratulations! BE CAREFUL with those BG spikes!!!