Goggles!

A few weeks ago, I bought a pair of goggles for swimming.  They're Speedo Vanquisher 2.0's.  I did a bit of research online and this pair came recommended, so I bought them from Amazon.  I finally tried them this past Thursday and boy do I love them!  They have amazing peripheral vision!

The reason I wanted goggles was two-fold: I wanted to go swimming and I didn't want to worry about the chlorine hurting my eyes.  I've been swimming with my eyes open underwater for years.  Unfortunately, in recent years I haven't been swimming in pools very often.  When I do swim in a pool, I noticed that the chlorine hurt my eyes so badly, so I thought goggles would be a good idea.  And they so were.  I'm just sad I didn't buy a pair sooner so I could have been swimming sooner!

I wanted to mention on here that I used my skiing strategy to control my glucose level while swimming.  I was a bit worried about going because I've had some lows recently (I'm thinking they might be due to my weight loss - my basals haven't been adjusted yet so I probably have too much insulin.  Don't worry, I'm working on that!) but the 30% dinner bolus/25% basal starting approximately an hour before the activity worked rather well.  I started out a bit lower than I would have liked (4.4 mmol/L) so I had a bit of juice as well.  Just before heading to the pool I was 9.8, so I ate a bit more (a pack of Thinsations cookies).  In the pool's changeroom I was 13.3.  After almost an hour of swimming I was 9.3.  I forgot to plug my pump in at that time, so I went and dried my hair, ending up 10.5.  An hour later or so I was 9.0, and just before bed I was 12.7.  All in all my glucose stayed relatively steady.

My one regret is that I didn't pay attention to how many laps I did.  I'm pretty sure it was at least 10, possibly more.  I'll try to keep better track of that next time I go!