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Back to Work

9/17/2013

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After a day off it was time to get back to work and go for a nice six mile run.  I was very excited to get back out and run, it is weird but running and working out has become like a drug.  I'm addicted, it is getting worse as I get closer to the marathon which isn't a bad thing.  

Today my run started off very well but around mile five I began to feel "low".  I decided to have some GU and slow my pace to try and raise my blood sugar.  Nothing was working, I finally decided to shut it down and walk the rest of my route.  As time passed I started to feel a lot better, my pump said I was at 167 and dropping.  When I arrived home I started to feel dizzy again, I tested immediately but was very surprised to see that I was at 88.  I decided to have my normal post run snack of chocolate milk and peanut butter toast.

After I started to feel better I started to think of what was causing my dizziness while running.  The whole run I was a little gassy (sorry but it happens to all of us, no one is a perfect....) so I may have a little stomach bug going on.  This makes the most sense, I still don't feel 100% and a coworker was complaining this past weekend of stomach pains.  It could also be dehydration, I always have trouble staying hydrated and after Sundays run I was quite dehydrated.  I did my best to try and drink lots of water but it may not have been enough.  Finally it could be a true low blood sugar feeling.  This goes back to the dehydration part a little as well but when my blood sugars have been around 70 I have felt like I'm at 50.  The 88 may have been a flase 88, I was probably lower when I was on my run but by the time I got home the GU kicked in.

I don't know what was up with my dizzy spell while running but I'm anxious to run again to see if it returns or if it was just a freak thing.  I love how my diabetes has made me over analyze each bad feeling that I get.  The marathon is making that over analyzing even worse, I need to be at 100% for November 3rd.  The next 47 days are going to be fun!!

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