A Long Hot Winter Indoors

I think I've mentioned in other posts that riding a trainer in the winter is BORING!! Too bad it is effective training. You can control the intensity and environment. Which is good for a diabetic. It's easy to check blood sugars and correct if needed. Just press pause on the DVD...again thanks to Spinervals....and then get back to work. This morning was 1.5 hour ride. Easy aerobic ride....yeah right! Nothing like seeing 5 inches of snow out the window and be sweating like a pig. (Do pigs sweat?) But a good ride. No complaints. I think I rode around 28 miles. That makes it sound even more boring doesn't it!? I woke up ready to go too...which was nice. My blood sugar was a nice 105, so I fueled up and bolused for around half of the bar I ate. Then surprise, surprise...I dropped to 74 only 40 mins. into my ride. That's not sarcasm either...I really was surprised. Drank some carbs and continued on...all the while multitasking...I was getting the ingredients into my breadmaker. Who says I can't walk and chew gum?? When the ass kicking ended my blood sugar was at a perfect 102. Big smile on my face!! Why can't I get that to happen on a race day? Hopefully it will be a good blood sugar rest of the day.

Who Needs A Car?!

This is what it looks like when I walk home from work in a snow storm. Brent got held up in traffic coming to get me, so I started walking and he found me on my route. Then he laughed at me when I opened the car door. He saw me taking a picture of myself with my phone....I bet that looked funny!!

Running When You Don't Want To

So, this is test week. I have a series of tests to do in each discipline. The swim was to find out my current 100 meter pace in the pool. The bike is kind of hard indoors as my computer on my bike is set on the front wheel, and that doesn't move when I'm on the trainer. And yesterday was a run time trial. But the problem is it's a "I don't want to get out of bed to run" morning. I got enough sleep, so I wasn't tired. I was just not motivated...at all! My schedule was telling me to do a 30 min. time trial...(to find out my current lactate threshold)........ and mind you I had already done a 1 mile time trial on Monday. I knew it was going to be hard...harder then the 1 miler. I wasn't in the mood to do "hard". But, I dragged my butt out of bed and went to the gym. I loathe the treadmill, but it's a good for controlled workouts. I warmed up for 5 min. or so...then got the good playlist going on my iPod...and off I went. It went better then I expected. I was still never 100% motivated, but I made it through. I averaged a pace of 8:30 minute miles. I can say, that is the fastest I've done that time trial. So, obviously something is working in my training. As for the blood sugars? I thought they would spike like crazy with the anaerobic nature of the run. They were surprisingly great...even with some strength training after. So that was nice!

The next time I don't want to get out of bed, I'll try to think of the progress that's been made.

That Darn Dog

Why is it when you have a hard workout planned, something...or shall I say somedog....gets in the way. We had a terrible wind storm last night. Very loud! I was sleeping fine until Cooper,(he was Brent's dog last night) started whining for an hour. I think he thought he was missing something outside. I'm sure he figured that the noise was being made by someone. Long story short...Brent lets him out and can't get him to come back inside for what feels like 15 min. Maybe it was. Then neither of us can get back to sleep. Hence....5AM workout goes out the window! I hit that alarm like 5 times and don't really remember it.
So I'm home from work early and will have to adjust my training to a indoor bike ride on the trainer. Thanks to a new Spinerval DVD I just got, it shouldn't be too painfully boring. So, stupid me forgot to change my basal rate for the ride. I'm now ingesting carbs to compensate for that. I hate eating when I shouldn't have to......like when I'm dumb enough to forget to lower basal rates. Now II'm going to have to check sugars more often during. I suppose that's easy to do indoors...so I shouldn't complain....but .......that darn dog!!!

I Love Minimed

I love Minimed....the company that makes my pump. I'm hoping good karma comes my way. Thanks to my super awesome doctor! He laid down some ground work with the Minimed rep. in the area, who's laying ground work in California with the powers that be....let's just say if it all comes through, I'll be suited up with new technology AND then some. So, I'll keep saying it....I love Minimed, I love Minimed, I love Minimed, I love Minimed, I love Minimed, I love Minimed!!!