Monthly Archives: November 2008

Half-marathon #2, grab bag report about cold, numbers, blood sugars, whatever I can think to throw in and have stick

Sunday morning, November 23rd, I peeled off the two layers of gloves I was wearing and dug down into the right front pocket of my shorts which had a ziploc bag that held a small glucose meter, a finger lancing device, and a tube of test strips which had some toilet paper wadded up inside [...]

some good running news

Since I resumed running on November 1st, I’ve been of course happy that the area which had been hurting didn’t hurt.  But I hadn’t had any good runs the 3 times I had run and Saturday’s run in all honesty was miserable.  I had thought to try for 10 miles,  but after 4 miles were [...]

So I was going along

Late last week I began having some miserable fluctuations of blood sugars.   Highlights included waking up at 1 in the morning on November 6th and testing to a reading of 354 mg/dL.  One of the worst I’ve seen this year.  I punched in 9 units of Novolog figuring there might be some insulin resistance up [...]