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Comment by Justina on May 7, 2012 at 5:47am

I ran my full marathon yesterday! My blood sugar wasn't fantastic, but I powered through it. I never lost the smile on my face because I couldn't believe I was doing it. Now on to train for my 50 mile bike race to cure this damn disease!
<3 Justina

Comment by Dane on May 7, 2012 at 4:02am

How did you do Erin2? Hope you had fun!

Comment by drsoosie on May 6, 2012 at 7:43pm

Dane could you give me the name of the site you virtually train on? i forgot what it was!!! Also how would I friend or find you on there?

Comment by acidrock23 on May 6, 2012 at 6:51pm

I drank like a quart of coconut water the week before this race and 8 oz during (515 mg...) and it didn't seem to matter. I'm hoping it will turn out to be the weights. I'd like to run a number in the 4s and ran one of the 20 mile runs in like 3:10 so 4 something shouldn't have been out of the question...it's only 6 more miles, lol...

Comment by drsoosie on May 6, 2012 at 6:44pm

Well I am game to run the Chicago with whoever feels like they will run about a 4 hour 30 minute (that's what I am striving for!) However, I may be overly optimistic. I guess I will know better as I train more!
Acid...have you tried taking a potassium supplement a week or two prior to the race? Maybe that would help. Do you think some of it could be coming from dehydration?

Comment by acidrock23 on May 6, 2012 at 5:20pm

Good job on your race Jay and LOL @ being "marathoned out". I could get to that easily.

I'm not sure you'd want to run w/ me Dane, I blew up and ran 5:18 last year. I felt I ought to have run faster. I'll see if laying off the weights helps and get back to you? It sounds like there's several members running though...

Comment by Dane on May 6, 2012 at 4:54pm

So cool to see other diabetic runners doing so well...it is so motivating! I did my last half of the season at 4:04:30 so acid, you and I may be on pace to run Chicago together?! I start training next week after taking two weeks off. Awesome job to Jay...I would love to do so well! Was Insulindependence at your race? I know they were doing one up in that area soon?

Comment by Jerry Nairn on May 6, 2012 at 4:06pm

Awesome, job, Jay!

Comment by Jay on May 6, 2012 at 3:52pm

Did the Pittsburgh Marathon today in my home town. After running the first half in 1:43 and feeling great, had some serious issues with the sun and heat dropping me low at Mile 17. Had to walk a while to recover and finished just under 4 hours. This was my third marathon in the past seven months. That was a great time-travelling to Columbus with the whole family and Miami with my wife, as well as fitting in a camping trip around a beautiful half along the Clarion River in March, running a PR of 1:36. I'm going to focus on 5K to Half Marathon distances for the next few months, and maybe a sprint triathalon. For right now, I'm marathoned out. Good luck to everyone else who is training for one!

Comment by acidrock23 on May 6, 2012 at 1:37pm

Hmmm, I was eating leafy green veggies (like 4x servings/ day?) pretty much right up until the race. I also have been lifting, specifically knee extensions and then these things w/ the velcro around my ankle, pulling my leg back, that hit glutes, 3x 70 lb, 3x/ week on each. I have another 1/2 060312 so I'll knock off the weights and keep eating the veggies.

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