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When I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes I was told many things about controlling my diabetes, many dos and don’ts, most of which I ignored. The one thing the stuck in my mind was the basic guideline that as long as my A1c was under 7% and I didn’t have a lot of lows, I would live a long...

Any diabetic can tell you that diabetes comes with a lot of stuff. You have your glucometer kit which you need to take with you every where you go, your insulin, pens, shots or pump, emergency sugar packet and all kinds of other things. In the days before I had diabetes, I could fit everything I needed...

I celebrated my 42 nd birthday yesterday. I don’t usually like birthdays, at least not my own, but this one was low key and quite pleasant. Celebrations started the night before, when Jessica and I went out to dinner for the first time since her birthday eight months ago. My birthday morning started...

When I woke up Tuesday morning with my blood sugar at 99 I was pleased and felt that I had made the right decision giving up insulin shots and getting a pump. I got myself ready to go out on my first pumping run making sure to take my glucometer and a few energy gels. I started an 8 mile run with blood...

Most runners have heard of base training but I’m not sure if most really know what it means. I didn’t until now. For the last two years, since I started running marathons, I’ve spent a good part of the year – September through April – training for one marathon or another...

After returning home from a short trip to New York last month, I got a cold or virus of some sort and my heart rate went completely out of control. On one of my runs my HR monitor indicated I ran for miles with a heart rate of over 200. At one point it actually showed a reading of 249. This, I know,...

I ran 22.5 miles on Friday morning. I haven’t felt very well for the last few days and my blood sugar levels have been a little out of whack (actually, a lot out of whack). My side has been hurting me and when I cough I have pains in my chest. But after missing last week’s long run because...

Like many people, I grew up eating cereal for breakfast. It seemed like a good, healthy thing to eat (as long as it wasn’t a “real sugar cereal” like Froot Loops or Trix, or the ones with marshmallows in them like Lucky Charms, or Franken Berry and Count Chocula. Those were treats reserved...

I finally ran my last pre-marathon long run, and am now starting to taper off before the big day. Ordinarily I would feel great, on a high from the run and from reaching this point in my training. Instead, I am physically wiped out and am feeling very uneasy about the upcoming marathon. Until Friday...