If none of you have ever heard of a Ragnar Relay then you should go and check it out here.
I just ended my long road preparing for one while trying to learn about how my body handles my blood sugar levels while running.
I am about to tell you that my body handles running better than stress when it comes to my blood sugars.
The stress of running a long race coupled with running it with people I barely knew added up to very high blood sugars, an inability to know how much insulin to take to bring the blood sugars into normal levels and an exponential increase of the stress of the two compounding to result in alot of fear.
My blood sugars a couple of hours before my first run were around 400 with no food. I hadn't eaten anything because I was too nervous. I was afraid to take as much insulin as my pump recommended because I had experienced a rapid drop in blood sugars during my running while I had been training.
I opted to take only 1/2 of the recommended amount and then check my blood sugars more often to make sure that I wouldn't go down too quickly.
Well that was a bomb, to say the least. My body reacted very well even to the reduced amount of insulin so that when I was ready to run my first leg, 6.9 miles total mileage, my blood sugars were almost in normal ranges. I got kind of scared because I knew I still had 1/2 of my insulin working in my system.
I don't normally eat very much when I am running because it makes me upset to my stomach so I had packed some licorice and asked the fruit provider to buy bananas because I had trained with these: WELL: Technically I trained with the bananas and the licorice was an emergency supply that I hoped I wouldn't lose my lunch when I ate it.
I didn't specifically train with the licorice because I love black licorice so much and I finally found some that didn't have "ugh" high fructose corn syrup or any kinds of partially hydrogenated anything "ugh"
I can't keep that stuff in the house because I will eat it so it is a catch-22 because I needed it during the big race but I can't train with it because I want to eat so much of it.--bad thing for high blood sugars.
Well: needless to say I battled with my blood sugars throughout the race and finally a couple of days after I called up my doc and got an appointment. I see the doc in a month and have emailed a couple of times. I got some suggestions that I will use to bring my blood sugars back in line ( I have to use these as I don't have a Sensor. See earlier posts for that story....)
