14/12/2025
Malaga marathon… Done . Hoo-rah!
How did I do? My watch says 4h53 but I think I ran further than a marathon… what I ran but that didn’t tally with any of the kilometre markers. I set my watch off on the start line but I’d go through a kilometre on my watch but it didn’t marry up to any of their signs. Garmin says I went through the full marathon distance at 4h50. So possibly I’ve mistakenly done an ultra (winner winner chicken dinner 🤣🤣). The Malaga Marathon site says 4h57. I don’t agree with that. We set off after their estimated start time. All I know it I beat my Garmin estimate of 4h57.…. Interesting race day. I’m diabetic. I had pasta for tea the night before (sugars before the meal were in range (I wear a sensor) and thought I’d estimated the carbs fine for my spag Bol tea but they actually plummeted rather than going up and down as they SHOULD do… needed to eat a couple of pastellas de natas and jelly babies to recover.. not great the night before a marathon). Wonder if the fat in the sauce blocked the carb from entering my bloodstream? …… Woke up to see my sugars had a party overnight (I say this when they’ve been up and down when I’ve been asleep). Woke up to them being just on the high side out of healthy range. Ate a sandwich for breakfast, and under jabbed the recommended insulin for the sandwich (which should also have included a corrective dose of insulin as it was out of range). I’m not meant to have any insulin if I’m running within 2 hours of eating and I was outside that range. I left the hotel and by the time I was at the start line I was going into hypo glycemia (wtf!!) so I had to eat an entire packet of Dextrose and a muesli bar to get to back up to where I needed to be to actually run. Along the run I had a few wobbles (felt queasy a few times) but generally kept my head in the game. Proud to have finished under 5hrs which was my goal. Got another one in March (Rome!) and I’ve been saying this was training! Ran with my ever patient husband who is capable of so much more than I can ever achieve ❤️❤️❤️
