Not such a walk in the park!

A couple of weeks ago, my fiance and I partook in a 12km charity walk which I have been meaning to write about ever since! Mainly because it left us absolutely knackered! Hats off to all you walkers, both being regulars at the gym, we cannot believe just how much the Sunday adventure 'hurt' us: three days later we were still weary lol! Upon completion in just under 2hours, our feet were a bit sore, we were a bit tired and straving, and with tight muscles but that was it. Well! Come the Monday I was hobbling! By the Tuesday morning I could still barely pull off a single set of squats!
Diabetically speaking, I experienced something pretty new and interesting though (which also made me secretly do backflips inside like a little diabetic champion gymnast). The walk was at 7am, so at 5.30 I had a coffee and slice of toast (in hindsight, probably not enough). My body seemed a little confused and peaked at 17.6 right before the walk (I seem to get this problem everytime I have to be 'fit' in public have you noticed??), so knowing I was about to do 'some' cardio, I only injected 3 units. At around the 7km point I felt the low coming on...so while not stopping for a nano second, I check my BGL...4.6... not too bad I thought, and I know alot of people wouldn't even deem this as a low, but I was still mid stride and on the go. So (while still not stopping for a second) I threw back a couple of jellybeans and kept powering on..... about 100 meters later I felt ALL my energy just melt away, as if it fell from my head, down through my boady and washed out my feet across the concrete. 'I can't go on' I thought...and afterall, the organisers had made an effort to advise us this was a non-competitive charity walk. Clearly something else had ticked over in my brain though and I just couldn't seem to stop.... plus maybe if I stopped I wouldn't start again... so I bargained with my finace (uncesccairly, he would've stopped... I think I was actually bargaining with myself) to stop at the next water station 200 meters away.



When I got there, I suddenly felt fine! Crazy. I finished with a blood sugar of 8.6 but by the end of the day I'd never felt so utterly drained and then realised that despite ingesting over 80g of carbs since the end of the walk, I hadn't injected since breakfast.... the highest my BG went was 10.6.... which then made me anxious about what would happen if I dosed to correct the 10.6!!! Who knew walking could be so full on!!!