This race did not go as planned. I was tired from the beginning (thought it was because I didn't sleep well), but kept up my planned pace (4min run/1 min walk) until mile 15 or so. Mile 15 was a 2:2 and mile 20 was all walking.

As I was running, I noticed my blood sugar was climbing and climbing and climbing. Slowly at first, but I usually run with it around 130 and during this race it went over 200 from the start. I kept feeling like it would come down on it's own because I was running so far but it never did. It just kept climbing.

At mile 12 I started feeling nauseous like I might throw up. Kept going and finally called Todd at mile 15 to bring me a Coke after I took an emergency bathroom stop. He immediately was worried with me based on how I sounded. He found me at mile 17 and I had a few sips which helped. Blood sugar was still crazy high. I was just mildly aware of what was happening with my blood sugar because I was fighting with my body to run.

From mile 15 to mile 23, a volunteer bike rider rode with me (as I was the very last person) and got me back to FSU's campus safely at mile 23. At mile 20 I had to quit running at all and walked the last 6 miles back. Turns out my insulin pump site malfunctioned and I wasn't getting ANY insulin. Which is kind of dangerous. My blood sugar quickly climbed up to over 400 by the time we got home and I could take care of it.

I would have put in an extra insulin pump site. If one went bad, I'd have an extra.

Crossed the finish line and NO ONE GAVE ME A MEDAL!! I know that I was just over the cutoff but they did announce I was a finisher. My family met me there and Carson found a lady packing up boxes of medals and asked for one for me. She said oh great, tell your mom congratulations for finishing. I'm pretty salty about the fact I had to ask for a medal. After the medal we went straight home (a 20 minute drive at 2:30pm. I was so nauseous I couldn't eat much the rest of the day. I took an insulin injection, changed my pump site and my blood sugar responded immediately. I just couldn't eat until much later. Besides the medal they also didn't post that I finished online. I know I missed the cutoff my 13 minutes, but I did finish. Salty about that too. It's not like I was trying to qualify for anything.


Diabetes, and probably mesopause and lack of weight training lol


Although the Tallahassee Half Marathon is a favorite of mine, the Full Marathon course left me feeling unsafe on the St. Mark's Trail as it was 14 miles of isolated running through highest crime areas of town. Volunteers were wonderful and the course was well marked. More details about the race course could be listed online as no one seemed to know what types of aid (gels, Gatorade, bathrooms etc.) would be where.