Long distance running with insulin-treated diabetes

[David]

How do you long distance runners with insulin-treated
diabetes deal with your blood sugar levels when training and
competing? Usually when I'm training, I skip my Humalog
(insulin lispro) for the meal I'm having 1-2 hours before
running, and aim at a BG around 10mmol/l (180mg/dl) before
staring. Hopefully the BG will stay up long enough. Of
course I bring my glucose tablets, but I find it hard to run
with even the mildest hypo and have to stop and let the BG
rise. For my last marathon, I didn't take any Lantus
(insuling glargin) in the night before, and started the race
at 15mmol/l (270 mg/dl), and ended at 10mmol/l (180mg/dl),
drinking liters of sport drink during the race.

Any thoughts, suggestions or links to valuable information
about the subject?

Thank you in advance!

-David

[Great Marathon]

Go to your chiropractor, he'll cure your diabetes. Just
ask Roidger.

"David" <not@not.not> wrote in message
news:<_6tGc.1217$vH5.1107@amstwist00>...
> How do you long distance runners with insulin-treated
> diabetes deal with your blood sugar levels when training
> and competing? Usually when I'm training, I skip my
> Humalog (insulin lispro) for the meal I'm having 1-2
> hours before running, and aim at a BG around 10mmol/l
> (180mg/dl) before staring. Hopefully the BG will stay up
> long enough. Of course I bring my glucose tablets, but I
> find it hard to run with even the mildest hypo and have
> to stop and let the BG rise. For my last marathon, I
> didn't take any Lantus (insuling glargin) in the night
> before, and started the race at 15mmol/l (270 mg/dl), and
> ended at 10mmol/l (180mg/dl), drinking liters of sport
> drink during the race.
>
> Any thoughts, suggestions or links to valuable information
> about the subject?
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> -David

[Rwalter2]

<< Subject: Long distance running with insulin-treated diabetes
From: "David" not@not.not
Date: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 1:09 AM
Message-id: <_6tGc.1217$vH5.1107@amstwist00>

How do you long distance runners with insulin-treated
diabetes deal with your blood sugar levels when training and
competing? Usually when I'm training, I skip my Humalog
(insulin lispro) for the meal I'm having 1-2 hours before
running, and aim at a BG around 10mmol/l (180mg/dl) before
staring. Hopefully the BG will stay up long enough. Of
course I bring my glucose tablets, but I find it hard to run
with even the mildest hypo and have to stop and let the BG
rise. For my last marathon, I didn't take any Lantus
(insuling glargin) in the night before, and started the race
at 15mmol/l (270 mg/dl), and ended at 10mmol/l (180mg/dl),
drinking liters of sport drink during the race.

Any thoughts, suggestions or links to valuable information
about the subject?

Thank you in advance!

-David

>><BR><BR>

I used to train with a type I diabetic who insisted on tight
sugar control. I can't tell you his particular regimen, but
I know it didn't always work, and he had lots of
hypoglycemic episodes.

He's been using an insulin pump for the last year and it's
really changed his sugar control. I can send you his e-mail
if you want to converse with him directly.

Robert Walter, CA