The Rythym, the Rebel

Last night and today went great! Both from a training and from a family perspective.
It's hard to juggle the family comitments along with the training, I try to train every morning at 5 but it can get tough sometimes - especially when Iwant to take Tricia to restruant on a Fiday night. But last night worked perfect, so i had to share.
I did get to the gym after work for a 1.5 hr bike ride - I went about 31.5 miles which felt like a really comfortable pace. (gee if only i could keep that up for more then 1.5 hours).
But the gem of the evening was that the YMCA I work out at is right next to our favorite resturant (and incidentally about 8 miles from home). After the ride I showered, then walked over to the resturant to meet the wife (she had a beer waiting for me - boy do I love her) for dinner. We drove home in her car, and left my car there. Then this morning I ran the 8 miles back to the parking lot to pick up my car and drive home before she was up. It worked out great!!! Why didn't think of this sooner?

Iowa Here I Come

Sometimes I’m just a lucky guru.

Yesterday I was asked to attend a Diabetes Day in Iowa on Feb 2^nd 2008. There’s going to be more then 2,000 people there including state politicians, healthcare professionals and national diabetes advocates. Topics are going to provide participants with information on current trends in diabetes management, carbohydrate counting, family dynamics, heart health, living and coping with diabetes, nutrition, foot care, research up-dates (and more)! Yours truly is going to talk about exercise – I can’t wait! Are there links for this, of course there are! There’s a link through JDRF and there’s also one through Hertko Camp Hollow

For those interested in the Diabetes Day in Iowa, here’s some easy links.
Info and Registration (3.2MB)Brochure (3.7MB)Register online

Oh yes, I almost forgot - 4 miles today at 7 minute pace. I’m gonna try and ride the bike tonight.

ADA Advocate

I’m registered with the American Diabetes Association as a Diabetes Advocate. Why? Well to tell you the truth, I’d love to be able to write my senator and congressman / woman and tell them to support Diabetes related issues every now and then, but I just don’t have time. So the ADA has a neat way of doing most of the work for you online. You just click away and your respective representative gets an e-mail from you about the issues you care about. Here’s the latest I got from one of thier e-mails, minus the fancy logo. Sign up, and forward it to a friend….

>> Forward to a Friend
Dear Diabetes Advocate,
$174 billion - that’s how much diagnosed cases of diabetes cost the U.S. in 2007. With an additional 6 million people believed to have diabetes but not yet diagnosed, the actual cost of diabetes may be much greater.
Yesterday, the American Diabetes Association released a new study showing the economic impact of diabetes on our country. You can find out how much diabetes costs in your state by going to the ADA’s diabetes cost calculator (www.diabetes.org/costs). This will give you the estimated costs of diabetes in your state (or congressional district), as well as the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in that area.
The Administration and Congress will soon begin working on the FY 2009 budget, and it’s important for them to hear that diabetes doesn’t just effect on individual, or one family, but that it takes a toll on all of us. Please click on the link below and tell your members of Congress it is time to properly fund diabetes research and prevention efforts to we can put a stop to this public health crisis.
Take Action Now!http://main.diabetes.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=1162

Insulin - Is it in you?

It’s amazing what the body can (and in some cases cannot) do under certain circumstances. I’ve done a ton of endurance competions; marathons, triathlons, biathlons, I even ran 31 miles on a treadmill once (just for fun). And each time I compete in a competion or push myself in a workout I have to call on my body to perform. I have to push my body to its limits – and I always do. In all these situatons my faith in my ability and my emotions run the gammet; from feeling invulenrable, to questioning if I can keep my pace. But even if I slow, my body is always able to keep going.

But sometimes (and thank goodness it’s only sometimes) something happens…something happens with my insulin. In some cases my infusion set kinks, in this last one the insulin had gone bad (and yes, it can go bad). Without insulin in my body, I get so weak and cramped from the high BGs that walking up the steps is a challenge, let alone even trying to prepare for my next race with a workout. Heck it’s even tough to get out of bed and go to the bathroom (which when your BG is high you do about every 15 minutes).

It’s humbling sometimes, that for as strong as I might be physically I know I’m essentially helpless without insulin. Let’s hope tomorrow is a better day.

IT IS THE INSULIN!!!

I’ve been battling the hibyy BGees all day, so it’s gotta be the insulin. I’ve doubled up on my doses and I’m just barely under 180mg/dl. I’m gonna change out as soon as I get home but I thoght I’d write a quick note in case I go into high BG road rage on the way home and smack the car up.

Toodles.