Diabetes and running

woodseythelegend

hey there just wondering if anyone knows anything about running with diabetes?? I’ve been running 10 years. Recently diagnosed out of the blue. Type 2. Struggling to get head around it. For example what about gels and marathons?? Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks

Mitch Buchannon

I'm sorry I have nothing I can offer myself towards your question.

There's a UK runner called Kelly Ruck ..she's on the socials as Kellogsontherun. She has diabetes. She has YouTube channel and Instagram. She might be worth sending a message or maybe she has done some videos in the subject.

She is so married to another very handy runner/youtuber called Matt Rees (thewelshrunner).

https://www.instagram.com/kellogs_ontherun?igsh=MWtnNWN5aTRkcDRjeA==

woodseythelegend

cheers

MrMacPhisto

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058419813/diabetes-and-running

Hi,

I have been running with type 1 diabetes for many years. The good news is that running is a great way for treating your condition. It just requires a little more planning and understanding. Unfortunately, it doesn't always go right and can be frustrating but thats just a part of the deal. You just have to accept that some days running will be a slog and performance may well be impacted.

Over the years I have learned techniques to deal with different situations. Unfortunately, no two days are the same but if you can learn the basic knowledge of what to do when and what works for you personally, then you will be able to manage things pretty effectively.

I just regard the condition as just another training element or spoke in the wheel of training that I have to deal with. So no different to planning your run for the day (easy, long, session etc), nutrition, fluids, recovery, supplementary training.

I dont have any personal advice for you as I think you just have to learn what works for you over time. Type 1 is different to type 2 and there are probably a few different considerations. If you can get access to a Constant Glucose Monitor that can be extremely useful. I can monitor my blood glucose on my garmin at all times which allows me to edit my plans on the fly. CGM is probably not as important for type 2 as the risk of hypo is lower, whereas things can go south for me pretty quickly at any point in my run.

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-and-sport.html

Diabetes uk website is a good place to start learning the basics. They have a running section and deal with type 2 specifically.

https://www.runsweet.com/

The runsweet site is more relevant to type 1 diabetes but you might find some good info and more scientific or numbers based ways of dealing with nutrition and hypo recovery etc.

All the best with your running :D

Enduro

I would strongly suggest you read up on Prof. Tim Noakes. He's one of the foremost sports scientist around, and always has very interesting things to say, as well as writing one of the great running science books (The Lore of Running).

Anyway, very broadly speaking he would be an extremely strong advocate for HFLC style dieting in general, and a lot of his most recent research shows up the utter fallacy of the "need" to ingest a large volume of carbs (A regime he played a strong role in creating, and now acknowledges that he was completely wrong in doing so).

I like his theories since they explain very well what I have discovered in practice with regard to the need (or more accurately, the lack thereof) for shovelling sugars into yourself to "fuel" race performance.

He often points out the high number of top class athletes who have become pre-diabetic or diabetic over their careers. And it is clearly not caused by a sedentary lifestyle!

I've also read many accounts of people who say they reversed their diabetes (Type 2, obviously. Type 1 is very different) by adopting a HFLC diet.

The Black Oil

Lusk AC's podcast had an episode that discusses this.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Yr82b5XFpQ3MvX6YdIIDK