I just got back from spending a week in the land of Deena and Meb. I was finally able to head up to Mammoth with my high school team for their annual summer cross country camp. My sister is on the team and it was great to spend the week with her and get some much needed run mileage in at 8000 feet.I'd run in Mammoth 6 summers in a row, from 2000-2006, 4 with Ventura High and 2 with UCSD. The camp in 2000 was prior to my diagnosis and too long ago for me to remember how it felt. However since then, I've always had a rough time running up there. My sugars always tended to be higher, which is the opposite effect of what altitude is thought to have on BGs. Stiffness due to insulin resistance had been the trend.
It was interesting to see differences this year. This year almost every run felt great. We did the same runs as I had those first four years, got about the same amount of sleep and food etc, and we soaked in the lakes and streams the same way, but this time I wasn't stressed. I wasn't worrying about my spot on the team, what my time was going to be up "Life" hill or "Hershey's," or time trialing. I just had to run. It is amazing what stress does to my performance because of the havoc is reeks on my insulin sensitivity (like I talked about in a post from last summer.) But competing requires worrying about placing, pace, and time, so I'm going to have to figure out how to control stress so it doesn't affect me so much physically.
Thanks to Julie, the other chaperone on the trip, I had coffee ready for me every morning when I got up. It really has been making all the difference on my runs. I have mixed feelings about dependence on caffeine and don't like that I'm getting to that point. (Sometimes I'll finish a run and try to figure out why I felt so crappy, and realize as an afterthought that I hadn't had coffee that morning.) It also helped that many of my additional training runs have been with my friend and training partner Richard. On those days I attempt to slow him down as little as possible.
Below are most of my bloodsugars of the week. As the week went on I had increasing resistance in the afternoons. I remember this being the case during my camps with UCSD. I should have remembered, predicted and adjusted more aggressively. Interestingly my correction ratio seemed to stay the same (with the exception of the last night, when I think the cite was getting old.) As you will see I made many mistakes and some clearly affected my later runs. I also started menstruating the day after we got back, which is usually preceded by 2-3 days of higher fastings, and I should have tested more than I did in some cases.
Pre Mammoth BGs (PM of day I drove to Ventura):
8/02:
12:52pm 274
6:20pm 120
7:40pm 143
11:50pm 57
Mammoth BGs:
8/03:
7:15am 80
10:38am 154
1:31pm 180
Ate 30grams- Ran 4 miles
3:39pm 144
6:53pm 100
9:39pm 117
8/04 (my Birthday!):
6:45 77-took 0.4 ate a banana with Peanut Butter
7:53am Pre Run 149
8:06am Post Warm up 123 ate 30grams
Run was 7 miles, mostly flat on sandy footing
9:46am Post Run 143
2:41pm 406
4:01 116
6:28pm 361
9:38pm 451 took 4 units correction
This began the increasing resistance in the afternoon. Maybe it is due to the physical stress of harder running, but it seems to be even more than that.
I saw a bear and swam around in the very chilly Crystal Lake in the shadow of Crystal Craig on my birthday, can't get much better than that.
8/05:
12:26am 91
4:43am 54
5:44am 184
6:08am 138 Pre Run
Run was 1 mile warm up, 48 min negative split on single track trail with rolling hills, a few strides and 8 min cool down.
7:51am 87 Post run
11:05am 66
12:34am 226
4:01pm 336
6:03pm 53
8:52pm 215 took 1.0 unit correction
8/06:
6:18am 59 ate 1.5 pieces of toast with PB
8:03am 160 Pre Run
Run up "Life" hill, up Old Sawmill Rd. from Shady Rest park; 3 miles up 4 miles down. Plus 6 strides and 1.5 mile cooldown.
9:01am 149 Post Run
2:26pm 188
6:03pm 201
8:12pm 394
9:28pm 316
8/07:
6:06am 202
Ran 2.2 mile warm up with the girls, then 0.5 to where I took photos and 2.2 mile cooldown with them.
8:01am126
12:33pm 321
4:39pm 220
5:12pm 55
7:17pm 164
9:21pm 412 - This was the result of a mistake of mine. We went out for ice cream and I went to bolus in the car but I couldn't see the screen because I hadn't set the indiglo light to come on my new pump and so I meant to bolus as soon as I got out of the van at the condo, but I forgot, and I paid for it during the night and next morning's run.
8/08:
5:33am 333 BLAH
6:11 am 294 - I realized this was the 4th morning of my infusion cite. The correction from the night before probably wasn't absorbed correctly.
We ran the 6 mile Ridge Run with a 2.5 mile hill that continues downhill on the Mammoth Rock trail. I felt pretty horrible, clearly from the night of high blood sugars-glycogen depletion.
9:33am 211
2:03pm 162
7:57pm 119
11:20pm 64
Photos curtesy of Shatzi Sovich
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