Skied With Friends

Today I went skiing with a couple of friends. Friday is cheap night at Kamview ($7 to ski, and an extra $7 if you need to rent skis) so it was the perfect night to go. We had a lot of fun.

Of course, the evening was that much better for me because it was a total success glucose-wise! I didn't have to eat anything at all during the entire ski!

I started the day out low. So I ate a small "breakfast" (what other people would refer to as lunch) and did not do insulin for the meal. I know this isn't a good plan normally, but I wanted to make sure I would be higher when it came time to ski. Luckily this worked out, as supper rolled around I was about 10 mmol/L.

After my problems last time, when I had a dinner heavy with free foods, I decided to have a carb heavy dinner. So I ate a sub from Subway (just over half of a foot long), a cup of chocolate milk, and a small piece of crusty white bread. Then I did the usual thing with my insulin, 25% of the bolus from dinner, and 25% of a basal running through until I'm one skiing (although I didn't take into account the carbs for the piece of bread). I started eating dinner at about 5:30 and started the basal just before 6pm. Once dinner was ready, I got ready and met my friends for about 6:45. The plan was to be at Kamview for about 7.

I did glucose just before I left my house and was about 13 mmol/L. By the time I got to Kamview I was now 15 mmol/L, which was great; unlike pretty much every other time I've gone skiing this year, my glucose level did not drop! We skied to the beginning of the Northern Lights trail where I did glucose again. This time my level was just above 14 mmol/L. That was fantastic, too - no big drop there either!!! So we skied the Northern Lights successfully. This was also when I saw the biggest drop in glucose, going from 14 to about 8 mmol/L during that time.

We finished the night by skiing the normal lit trail back to the chalet (no dark Jackrabbit for me this time). Back at the Chalet, my glucose remained steady. So that meant I successfully skied about 3km without having to eat anything!!!!

After dropping everyone off, I went home and did glucose again. My level had predictably risen to about 15 mmol/L. So I corrected that, then did glucose again about a half hour later, when it dropped back down to 11 mmol/L.

All in all I am extremely happy with how everything went with my glucose. I'm even confident enough to attempt Kakabeka this Sunday (although I'm only going to do a 4km trail. I don't feel confident enough in my glucose to attempt the 7km one).