This was a tuff training week...the workouts were hard and made more difficult due to work issues....I was in trial Monday thru Wednesday....in the office early and leaving late. The trial ended Wednesday so I took Thursday off for a well deserved long 4 day weekend.

Got up early Thursday morning for a long 2 1/2 hour bike ride. My glucose was 49 when I got up. I ate a bowl of Kashi GoLean with skim milk and a peach and nectarine. I had eaten this once last week when my glucose was low before a bike ride and held me well enough. This day would be different. I finished my set of drills on the bike, checked my BS which had climbed to 353. Not good. I have no idea why my body acted differently this day then last week with regard to my BS response to the same basic meal. I had no insulin with me so I thought about going home for a shot but then decided to keep going hoping the exercise would bring it down. I did some hill work up sugarloaf and across buckhill. When I returned home my BS has dropped to 208. Still high but reasonable since I was going to the NTC for my swim workout. I brought with me a Hammer Gel and bottle of CytoMax to drink at the pool. I swam 2000 meters (Long course) and started to feel a little funky about 1500 meters into the swim. I ate the Hammer Gel, finished the CytoMax and completed my workout. My BS after the swim was 83. I rode my bike back home, took 4 units of Humulog and went to Chick fil A for lunch.

Friday's workout called for a 1:10 run and a 1:10 bike. I decided to run the clay roads south of Lake Louisa Rd. When I got up my BS was 254 so I could eat nothing before the run. On the run I had my Fuel Belt with water and one container with HEED and brought 3 Hammer Gels. About 25 minutes into the run I started to feel like I was getting Hypo but thought since I only had 10 more minutes to go to the turn around, I'd keep pushing and stop at the turn around and check my glucose. This was a mistake. When I stopped, my BS had dropped to 37. I finished the container of HEED and ate a Hammer Gel...but I had waited too long. The run back was brutal...I don't know whether the low BS was hampering my muscle strength or whether my mind was just telling my body to shut down...either way it was not good. The lesson to be learned here is at the first sign or feeling of low BS...do something about it....eat immediately...do not wait. If you wait too long and BS drops too low....it takes way too long to get your performance back....in a race this will drop you to the back of the pack. This is a difficult lesson...this has happened to me before...and still, I come up with reasons to not take immediate steps to correct what I feel is low BS. I have now vowed that in the future...I will take immediate action...no matter what.

Finished the week's training session with a group brick on Sunday which started with a 2 hour bike followed by a 30 minute run. This was difficult..the bike pace was fast and I had little left in my tank for the run...the run...those who saw me would say shuffle...was not fun. I'm thinking I need a break...maybe I'll take tomorrow off.