Testing again...

Ignore this blog kids....I'm trying out a new blogging feature called geo tagging. I'm trying to figure a way out to blog during the Boston Marathon and mapping out the blogs as i go....

Triabetes on DLife TV

Hi gang,
I wanted all to know that Triabetes was featured in an episode of dLife a few weeks back. Woohoo!!!! They interviewed the individual that we owe it all to...Michelle Alswager. I couldn't put the link live into my blog, but you can check out the video by going to dLife
Check ya later...

The Hippie Hurts

I think I need a new hip...I hadn't mentioned it in the blog because i was trying to be positive about Diabetes Training Camp, CWD, etc. etc. But wow, it was a doozy of a fall.

Yes i realize this is a hurt knee and not a hurt hip but the clip was free....

So several weeks back I had fallen on the ice while out training with the Buffalo Marathon Training Group. And when I fell I didn't go down gracefully. I'm amazed i didn't take anyone with me when I went, arms and legs were waving all over the place when i went down. The guys in the group were shocked i even got up. I checked all of the important stuff once i could stand (insulin pump, BG meter, head) and everything was ok, so on we went. We were already several miles into the run, so there wasn't any way to call it a day.

But we did circle back towards the start for water, and when we did I called uncle (where did that phrase come up anyway, 'calling uncle' if i ever find out i'll do a blog entry on it - promise). I was scheduled to run 18 miles that day but only made it about 6. I limped towards the car to head home to try and ice / stretch it, I was leaving the next day for Diabetes Training Camp.
Stopping early and icing/stretching was defintely a smart move (and i 'll mention it was a smart move again because it's rare that i can say i did something smart when it comes to, well, anything.) There was black and blue mark on my hip but it felt a lot better over the next few days.

But then I fell again while at camp, this time I was on the bike. It wasn't on the road thank goodness, we were on a lawn going through some drills to improve balance (yes, it's aparent i need more of them). I fell on the exact spot I did when i fell while running. And this time it was bad. Icing and strecthing did nothing to help. I had to take it easy on the working out.

Since then it's been hit or miss, I've been trying to take it easy, but it's been hard with the Boston Marathon coming up. I've missed a lot of runs (a lot of runs). Biking feels somewhat ok, but it's still bad. My goals for Boston and for the early season of triathlons are going to need some major tweaking.

I wonder if I get one (a hip) on ebay? They sell everything else, why not give it a shot? I'd try Craig's list, but at least I can get some guarantee with PayPal if I use ebay, like if it's not the right size or something, I might be able to get a refund....

Bad Workout

And no, this is not like the famous phrase in the Run DMC ' Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good!' It was a really bad workout.

It started out with the best of intentions....don't they all? I got the gym before it got crowded, so I knew I had plenty of time to get my hour long interval workout on the treadmill done (they always have a fit when i try and hog the treadmill longer then 30 minutes when others are waiting). I had the i-pod with the fast thumpy songs, the gatorade and assorted gels, and the small towell that tricia made me bring because I tend to sweat a tad when I'm running 5:30 miles.

I was going to do intervals, 3 minutes hard, two minutes easy. It went well for about 30 minutes or 4 intervals into the 10 interval workout. Then i became uncomfortable, and i didn't want to finish, and that never, ever happens (unless of course I'm low). I drank the remainder of the gatorade i had left, and tore through the gels, and whatever else was in my bag but it did little to stop the feeling.

I tried walking it off and trying again but i couldn't get it going again. I stepped off the treadmill dejected and headed home, I didn't even bother showering. Man was I angry. I'd rather give up because the pace its too hard then step off because I'm low.

Tomorrow's another day of course, but boy i hate throwing in the towel over diabetes. it happens, that's life, but it'll be eaiser once i hammer in a good workout.

Oh Canada.....

Wow! Just when I think I've got a boatload of great stories about diabetic athletes from DTC (Diabetes Training Camp) and i couldn't possibly get anymore, I meet another handful of inspiring athletes, all doing what i do everyday - live without limits when it comes to their diabetes. I don't have room in my head for all of them. (Wow, I walked right into that one, I can imagine all of the jokes from here).

So I left Trifest early so I could make it to the Children with Diabetes in Toronto. I was sad to leave the team early, but boy was I glad to be with CWD. The confernece focused on Insulin Pump Therapy and best practices surrounding it. And to emphasize the idea that pumping can be done successfully there were a plethora of athletes there. It was hard to keep track of them all, but here's a little run down on who was there:

• John Chick - Boy was he abig boy. And for good reason. He's a football player for the Canadian Football League, on the defensive line for the Saskatchewan Roughriders to be more specific. His team won the Grey Cup in 2007
• Jonny White and Tom Baxter. I had met these great guys at last years conference. They're the founders of C2C Adventure, Cycling Africa for Diabetes. They had biked across the African continent together!
• Mike Fisher is a World Cup bronze medalist and a member of the National Adapted Snowboarding team. He really related well with the kids, because, well, sonwboaarding is the coolest thing ever.
• Chris Jarvis is a member of the Canadian Rowing Team from 2002 and counting; he's competed in the Athens Olympic Games, and has won two World Cups and the Pan Am Games. He and i ran together at the Boston Marathon several years ago (he does those in his 'spare time').
• Leanne Stanley is an outrigger canoeist who competes at the World Championship level. She has been paddling for over 10 years and says that she is stronger and fitter now than before she had diabetes. (How do you like that one....stronger and fitter now than before she had diabetes!!!!) and.....
• Chase Pelletier is a competitive go-kart racer going into his 3rd year of high level kart racing. He won the Canadian Rookie Karting Championship hosted in Hamilton, Ontario in 2007 and dreams of someday being in Formula One and standing on the top box in Monaco.
  

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