First Time Swimming Since the Summer!

This was my first time swimming since August!  And wow did it feel good to get into the pool.  I'm feeling rather tired now, and most likely will be a bit sore tomorrow (I'm using muscles I haven't used since August, after all).  But I made a point of stretching a bit in the pool while I was swimming and again right at the end, so hopefully that will help a bit! :)

Like I said in my first Life Update, I completely forgot to record all of my swimming activities last fall.  So I wanted to make sure I didn't make the same mistake this fall.  Last fall, I started by using the skiing method for dealing with my glucose (25-30% basal, 30% bolus at lunch or supper time).  And I went too high.  I'm just looking at my old log book, and apparently even in there I didn't keep very good records.  On Nov 5, 2014 (which was not the first swimming day) I attempted a 40% basal and 40% bolus with dinner.which looks like it did ok (other than the fact that I started a bit high and stayed high, but there wasn't a huge jump afterwards; of course I can't tell if I corrected my glucose when it started going higher in the aftermath).

So this time around, I was going off of that.  Knowing that this was the first time swimming and that I didn't want to overdue it, I opted for a 45% bolus with lunch and a 45% basal starting just before lunch.  My glucose at lunch was 5.2 mmol/L, so it was a bit lower than I would have liked.  I carbohydrate counted so I knew exactly how many carbs I was eating, and so was able to do exactly 45% of a bolus with lunch.  Right before we left for the pool (1:55pm), my glucose was 10.8, a perfect level to start (not too high and not too low).  After I got out of the pool and rinsed off I was 8.3 (2:42pm).  So everything was looking great.  But then about an hour later I was 13.7 (3:50pm); at that point I did a correction, which seemed to solve the problem nicely. So next week I'm going to try the same strategy, but I'm going to do a correction right when I get out of the water. We'll see how well that works!