I started this to help motivate me to record blood sugars and analyze results, with the hope that it can expand and be useful to other Type 1 Diabetic athletes. Since everyday is a trial and often, error, I hope to hear from any of you who may have had success with things I haven't tried. Please feel free to contact me or put anyone you know in contact with me. 

March 02, 2008

Let's learn from our history...

I've had a couple rough weeks of training, especially running.
I had an epiphany and am embarrassed it took me so long to figure this out. I had stopped eating before practice like I used to, because I didn't feel like I needed to hunger-wise, and I could do without the calories. But the thing is if I don't eat something then I don't take any bolus insulin and the only insulin in my system in the morning is the little bit of basal rate that goes through the night. I think I was starting to feel drained because of the accumulation of days running without enough insulin 'on board.' Now I have had two good practices and the road race, after eating something and taking a bolus.
(Tuesday/Sat/Sunday were good, and Thursday was particularly bad because I woke up with a fasting of 250, and although it was down by the time we were doing intervals there were still lasting effects of being high over night.)