The Water Beast.
Hi folks! After the most intense week of work EVER, I was so glad to arrive home to San Diego on Friday night. And I was even more glad when on Saturday morning, I saw a clear sky and nothing but sunshine. My boyfriend and I quickly decided that it would be a beach day, […]
The Carlsbad Half Marathon: Check!
There was a moment during the half marathon, where I looked around at the 10,000+ people up early on a Sunday morning and thought to myself about how funny it was that we all paid $60 to get our butts kicked by 13.1 miles worth of concrete. But just like the vast majority of the […]
Gone running…
I’ll be honest folks. Between my last training runs, a hectic work week, and the steady bundle of nerves I’ve been developing all week in preparation for Sunday’s half marathon, it’s left a little drought in the creative juices department. I don’t have much to say today, but I am sure I will after the […]
Before I ran on insulin…
…there was martial arts on insulin. My first sports love was karate. I discovered it in college by accident, after declaring myself “not athletic” due to years of warming the JV volleyball team’s bench (seriously…JV. For three years. I decided not to embarrass myself my Senior Year). Turns out, I had picked a sport to play […]
Expert I am not.
I once received an email from a fellow d-blogger asking if she could forward me a message from someone who was looking for advice on running with diabetes. I obliged, and she responded with “Great, I just want her to be able to talk to someone who knows what she’s doing.” Ha. “Knows what she’s […]
The Tallygear Tummietote!
The most wonderful thing about the diabetes online community is that it’s ability to crowd source for answers to tough questions is unparalleled. No sooner did I blog about my struggle to find something to carry my CGM and PDM in during running did I receive and email from a woman named Donna, who had […]
The On Board Issue…
I’m proud to say I’ve managed to adhere to my goal of exercising before work instead of after for almost two full months now, and I’m finally getting pretty used to it. And although morning workouts have a whole slough of unique diabetes issues to them, there’s one they generally don’t have: dealing with insulin […]
Thank you.
No one likes the alarm clock going off at 6am on a Sunday. But I rolled out of bed, made a cappuccino, and dressed in running clothes. My blood sugar had been misbehaving all night thanks to a late dinner the evening before, and it hadn’t really recovered by the time I left for the […]
A Good Mornin’.
Every time I think life is about to slow down a little, something else pops up to keep me busy. Every time I turn around there a new work project/D.O.C. thing/volunteer thing/birthday party/insert time-consuming-item here And I feel like I’ve been complaining about not having enough time for everything for like….ten years in a row now. So I’ve decided […]
Bouncing back
Being on a serious vacation for the past 10 days means until yesterday, I had not exercised in…well…10 days. That’s actually not my normal vacation M.O. - I’m the type to squeeze in a few runs or 20 minutes on the hotel elliptical while on vacay, just to not totally turn to mush over the […]