Thursday, January 1, 2009

Gimblett Loop

I ran the Gimblett Loop twice, beginning at about 11:45 a.m. Central, in 1:39:20, with splits of 10:16, 10:18, 9:57, 10:01, 9:31 (50:03), 10:10, 10:17, 9:42, 9:37, and 9:31 (49:17), using the Huckabee-a´la-Galloway one-minute-walk-each-mile pacing technique. This was pretty easy, not effortless, but far from a time trial. I'm confident I had five minutes up my sleeve, and believe I could've gone at least five miles further at that pace.

I am disappointed in my blood-sugar response. It was at 66 an hour before I started. I ate a tube of Gu, and it measured 132 a minute before. I ate Gu at four and eight miles, and it was at 177 when I finished. It had been, gosh, 11 hours since I last took Novolog (the short-term stuff), unlike the five hours I typically allot for evening runs. I did take five units of Levemir about 90 minutes before I started.

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