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Comment by acidrock23 on September 7, 2011 at 3:56am

I went to an "injury prevention" seminar conducted by a couple of physical therapists @ the running store yesterday. Interesting stuff, although I didn't ask them for infusion set solutions.

I decided to sign up for a 1/2, sort of impromptu, this weekend to get focused? They mentioned that this is the hard part of training and that injuries can occur and that it's easy to get into the doldrums. I'd sort of recognized this myself, as I'd started stretching/ core/ flexibility exercises on my "off" days so I felt good about that but figured that mentally, a race will help. It's about the same # of miles that were on our schedule and I figure the process will be good to revisit.

Comment by Med on September 3, 2011 at 12:38pm

Acid - Sorry to hear about your difficulties, but good on you for getting it done in spite of the issues!

Brian - Did you really do 18 miles on oatmeal and 1 gel? Wow...

Comment by Brian on September 3, 2011 at 10:36am

Thanks! Sorry to hear about your pump trouble. Maybe MDI isn't so bad after all. It has been a lot of trial and error getting things dialed in for the long runs. I think I'm starting to get there. Today was encouraging. Nice job doing 20!

Comment by acidrock23 on September 3, 2011 at 10:26am

Great job!

My 20 went well for about 10 miles, then infusion set #1 ripped out. Fortunately, I had stuck in a spare and switched but that only lasted another mile or so and ripped out too. It was pretty muggy. I will need to remember extra tape. BG drifted up to 200ish and then started coming back down towards the end but I'm not really used to running w/ BG there and felt really dehydrated,despite drinking about 8 oz of water/ mile, and super crampy. Oh well, start the weekend!!

Comment by Brian on September 3, 2011 at 9:46am

Best long run yet! 18 Miles 920 ft climb! Oatmeal breakfast, Energy Gel at 13miles. Strong finish! BG @ 125. Awesome. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/111514592

Comment by acidrock23 on September 3, 2011 at 3:19am

Usually, I only eat maybe 30-40G of carb until dinnertime so it's not a ton and, with a pump/CGM, my AVG for the week was 92 on the metered #s and 86 on the CGM. I've had some problems lately with the CGM reading inaccurately low sometimes after I work out so the "AVG" might be a bit higher than that. It seems like pretty good running conditions, scattered rain but a whiff of rain sometimes feels ok too? Here's the CGM from yesterday, good day except higher than I like (160ish?) when I woke up. Oh well, I'd rather run high the day before I run than today! *eats breakfast*

Comment by Mike on September 3, 2011 at 2:14am

doesn't your BS go nuts with all that carb?
I don't think you need to carbload for more than a day or two for that distance. make good luck and update us on how it went.

Comment by acidrock23 on September 2, 2011 at 5:07pm

20 mile training run tomorrow @6:30. I ate extra carbs all week and about 2.5-3X my usual breakfast and early lunch around 11:00 AM today and am cutting way back for the rest of the day.

I'll have a couple of Sam Adams Costal Wheat beers, that seem to have about 20G of "liquid bread" and see how we go. I'll have an early AM breakfast and then a 15G of carb white chocolate chip cookie right before *blast off* and see how things go?

Comment by acidrock23 on August 28, 2011 at 1:35pm

Wow, you guys are a fast crowd! 21:53 for 5K is smokin' too!! I will drive your pace car, or maybe bike? I'll carry your gels for you and, if you are overindulging, I'll ride away...

Don't mind the language, I'd say (at least...) the same thing to my meter if I was getting "HI"?

I only cut my basal to 60-70% most of the time too, for short, 3-5 milers, I don't turn it down at all. I noticed my BG spiking a lot after running and figured that as I've been running 3-5x/ week for a couple of years now, maybe I'm getting in shape.

I've had some really decent runs without running up much over 120 and I don't feel a huge loss of energy blowing off "pasta feeds" or "carb loading" the night before. A lot of times, I can get good results having something like a handful of cereal, chips, a cookie, like 10-15G of complex carbs.

That's a good suggestion not to do anything diffferent right before a race too. I am a *huge* tweaker and fiddler and often find new stuff to experiment (current thing are these Kind macadamia bars, lots of protein but only 11G of carbs...) with but will try to remember not to do anything crazy on race day!

Comment by Mike on August 28, 2011 at 1:19pm

Happy to here the weather is better (where ever on the east coast you may be).
I reduce my basal to 30% which has worked fine so far.
My mistake was the pre-race gel - what the F*** was I thinking. (sorry about the language)

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