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ViaCyte trial for Type 1 Diabetes

By stephanie 6 May, 2019

It begins for me, tomorrow. I go into the hospital and begin my pre-surgery preparation. I will be in the hospital for 5 days, though I only need to stay overnight for 2 days. What is ViaCyte? ViaCyte is a company out of San Diego. Their business is stem cell research technology. This particular trial

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It's been a great few days #running! Feeling str It's been a great few days #running! 

Feeling strong and light and letting the #trail take me where I want to go. 

I finally have a system for managing my #BloodSugars before #exercise that has been working 100% of the time! For my gym workouts and my running! 

- turned off the small micro bolus function on my Android APS when I have set a temp target, so that the pump isn't delivering insulin during exercise
- set the temp target 2-6 hours before exercise and during the whole workout
- eat only protein and vegetables in the meal preceding the workout so that there is no bolus (active insulin) on board within 4 hours of starting the workout
- within 30 minutes of starting the workout, eat a chocolate rice cake (13g carbs)
- during the workout, may need to have 1-2 tablespoons (15-30 mL) of maple syrup (13-26g carbs), which I am now porting with me in travel size shampoo containers

I have yet to try this on workouts longer than 2 hours, though I expect it would work the same, I would just change the maple syrup out for Gatorade to add the hydration factor in. 

This has also saved me largely from the post-exercise spikes that I used to have, though after gym workouts sometimes, I drop quite low after if my post-workout meal isn't immediate. 

#t1d is always a balancing act and it always needs to be adjusted. Since starting #bodybuilding though, my total daily dose of insulin has dropped from 30 units to 24 units. Increasing insulin sensitivity sounds scary at first and it required paying a lot of attention to what specific changes needed to be made. 

If this is one less thing to worry about during cross country ski season though, then perhaps I may be able to train the way I want to get the performance gains I feel I have been chasing forever!

#t1dLooksLikeMe #GetStrong #FallIsHere #TrailRunner #OkanaganLove #KalPark
It's been a fun and hard two weeks of #running. M It's been a fun and hard two weeks of #running. 
My #TrailRuns have been fun, my #RoadRuns have been hard! Mostly because just like cycling, I can't stand the need for constant propulsion on flat terrain. I LIKE hills because then I have something to conquer and then something to coast down, after! Nothing brings me more joy than bombing down a #mountain, letting gravity do the work and the reward for having chugged up that hill. Which is also why I would hate doing an event that is ALL climbing: all grunt with no reward, no thanks. 

However, road runs are great for building #strength and are easier to track performance gains, because there are fewer variables to impact one's experience. They have a purpose in #training. And road races can be fun because they attract more racers and spectators. Trail races can often be a little lackluster, even if the course is amazing, why would I pay someone to run alone and not get the exciting vibe of random people cheering me on? That's another tangent...

I am getting nervous about cross country ski season approaching, as I feel so behind where I wanted to be in my #fitness for this time of the year. I have made great strides in the past month which has kept me happy and motivated but I feel less #fit now than I felt this time last year. My @garminfitness Connect tells me my estimated VO2max is 35 mL O2/kg/min whereas it was 39 this time last year. 

My trainer was bold and asked me what performance metric I felt I needed to feel like I was where I wanted to be: I said I need to be able to run 10 km in 1 hour. 
Which to me is heroic because I have NEVER ever been that fast. Even in my fittest year (2017), the fastest I could run 10k was around 1h20m. I did a speed test on Thursday, and I ran 10k in 1h30m. I walked a whole kilometre waiting for my #BloodSugar to rise midway. If my glucose was stable, could I have maintained the pace I started out with?

Of course it's all about controlling variables and managing #t1d is always another factor in my training but it's not a new factor. But increasing my speed that quickly feels near impossible. 

Pics are from my #trail run yesterday.

#PerformanceGains #TrainingGoals
Since my last post, my mood toward my own #trainin Since my last post, my mood toward my own #training has improved. My trainer changed some things with my program and nutrition, and I feel on an upswing again. 

This week, I finally invested in a new pair of #runners. I got a new pair of #TrailRunners last year which are wonderful, but are more appropriate for mud/dirt than gravel. I have needed new road runners for a while, so I decided to buy another pair of #trail runners. Ones that had a less aggressive lug pattern, and ones that would feel amazing on gravel and road. As I run more trail than road, but some routes include both! The last 3 photos are of the shoes. I got them at @kintecfootwear #VernonBC - I am so happy we finally have a location here!! 

I took the new shoes for a #run yesterday morning. I wanted to do 10km, so I ran two laps of the "Enduro" loop at #KalPark again. I last #ran this route end of May this year. At that time, I was in the mud-favouring shoes, but I also had forgotten my socks and developed wicked blisters under my arches. 
This time, I remembered all the things I needed, and had a wonderful time!! The shoes were perfect, my body and brain were happy, and I had just enough fuel to keep my #BloodSugars okay. 

I miss doing #TrailRaces. I signed up for zero this summer because I really didn't see the point in paying to finish dead last. It's not a fun race to be out on the course all alone. I do that during my training for free! But having a race locks in accountability. While I don't struggle with consistent Saturday morning runs, my midweek runs haven't been great. Though that's been a combination of factors like smoke from forest fires and after work appointments, and other reasons. Having a race to be prepared for helps me stay on track.

In realizing that cross country ski season starts in 2 months, plus having the new shoes, perhaps I already have all I need to stay consistent with my runs. Plus as it cools down, hopefully the forest fires will dissipate, too. I'm not ready for the seasons to transition, but setting new #fitness #goals would help. 

#GetOutside #NorthOkanagan #OkanaganLove #TrailRunner #TrainForLife #TrainingGoals
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