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On Saturday was the trail run of 30K called Lidingöloppet! I had been told it was hilly, but I could not have imagined it being so hilly. Race report will follow in later post ;) but here is picture, and you who know my smile must see that this smile is so forced because I felt like poop when it was taken! Very happy with the race, the time and was so much fun running with my awesome dad! 

Before the weekend on Thursdayy family and Fanny's family had a dinner at La Cucarcha, supergood tapas restaurant! I also took a walk with Fanny on Sunday before they left too be to Barcelona yesterday 

Yesterday I went on a walk with Nora, a friend from the youth diabetes council, she is not on it still but we remained friends. This weekend we are going out with our boyfriends too, will be fun because they have never met :) 

Right now I am on the subway to scchool, we are presenting our projects today! 

Took a pic on the balcony before I left 

Misty morning! One thing I love about the fall :) 

//Joanna (legs are still sore and I had to run to the subway, always last minute but never late haha)

Mr. C and I have gotten into a new show, White Collar, and just watched the last episode of season 4 before he had to get ready for work.. it was a superbig cliffhanger at the end of the epsiode, I cannto handle not knowing, especially not when I have to focus on school work for the rest of the day, so had to go on IMDB and see what happened in season 5 hahaha (I am redicolous I know). Mr.C is just laughing at me saying its just a TV show, but I cannot help but get invested in it haha

 

Tonight I am going for another run with my newly started running group called "We Run Diabetes", we run every wednesday at 6pm and we all have diabetes! There are almost 40 members to the facebook group, so far 4 people have turned up to the runs, but hoping more will join. The point of the running group is for us with diabetes to have an opportunity to meet people with more than diabetes in common, which might be the case in the ordinary "fika" meeting. In this group we have two things in common; diabetes and the love/like for excercise! :)

 

Yesterday I swam with my classmates, I have been teaching some of them how to become better swimmer, I really enjoy it! Its so awesome going to a school where everyone share the same interest of excercising and learning new things :)

The last 24hrs I have had quite a lot of very tasty but high carb foods, these are the times I wish I didnt have diabetes. But it does not work like that, I will have to learn how to deal with that as well, how to not care if my bloodsugar goes up just because I am having pumpkin bread or a hotel breakfast. I love doing those things, but its not a part of my everyday routine.. so why do I get upset about my sugar getting high from it, when it is so rare?? Maybe it is because I enjoy baking, I enjoy having breakfast with my friends, or having panini for lunch with Mr.C and I do not wasnt my high bloodsugar to shadow these otherwise very happy moments in my life. It is a tricky disease.. should you be avoid the carbs like the plague, feel upset when your bloodsugar gets high or is there an in between, I have not yet figured that out - but I will let you know when I do! :)

 

Anyways.. not thinking about diabetes I have had a pretty good last 24hrs, for some reason I was so emotional and bitchy yesterday, like I could not stop finding stuff that annoyed me, and you all know who unfrotunately got the worst of it. Remind me to thank him later!

 

Yesterday it took us forever to figure out what we were going to do with our day together, partly what made me frustrated, and then our clothes did not match which made me frustrated again (why did this frustrate me yesterday?? I have no clue, it doesnt usually frustrate me, I had one of those days!). After a lot of back and forth we decided to go to the English shop before his appointment with the naprapath who is helping him with his runners knee. We found the pumpkin puree!!! :) And when he was at his appointment I worked out which was great cause I could blow off some steem.. felt a lot better after working out! I havent been able to the past few days because I pulled something in my left hamstring on thursday and I have a 30k trailrun on sunday and didnt want to make it worse... Thus no workout = added frustration!

 

Last 24hrs in pictures:

I have to go by the English shop at medborgarplatsen today and buy pumpkin purée, only place in stockholm that has it pretty much, because now I am in a baking mood!! 

Been a great/calm morning, just what I wanted. Now we are going into the city for some errands and a nice stroll in the beautiful weather :)

Right now (this day) I don't care too much about my bloodsugar or diabetes, just happy that it's a sunny day and I get to spend the whole day with Mr. C :) 

//Joanna (so excited about pumpkin and baking tonight) 

But I had a great bikeride to work, headphone in one ear listening to an awesome song, air was crisp and the sky was blue - awesome day to be alive! Was my feeling, I tried getting it into a picture, but it's hard to take a selfie while on your bike but gave it a shot..

Current bloodsugar is 11mmol/L and it's been high like that since breakfast, same yesterday until I left work, seems to be a bad pattern I have, always high while working.. Why is that!? Enlighten me PLEASE! 

It has been a long time coming now, but this feels like the right time to start writing again.

 

It has been just over a year since you heard from me last and I am now at the second year of my excercise science studies at GIH, Swedish School of Sport and Health Scinences. It is all going very well and I really feel like I made the right decision this time! 

 

Last time we met I hade just completed my first Iron Man and started school again after that.. I think the reason I stopped blogging was because the air sort of went out of me there.. almost ever since I got diabetes (not even 3 years ago but still) my goal was to prove to myself that I could complete an Iron Man, I thought if I did that I could do anything. But after the race, the air went out of me, I was like a baloon that deflated.. at least in terms of myself as an athlete - what was I going to do now!? 

 

It took me about 10 months until I regained some confident/faith/drive in myself and realized who I want to be. Before much of who I decided to be was to prove to someone else (who, I dont know?) that I could do it, now I am more confident in myself and actually probably the biggest thing that has made me regain som confidence is that I am finally coming to terms with my illness!

 

This blog will be about my life with type 1 diabetes, school, work, Ung Diabetes, "sambo"-life and much else, I have many interests and plan to share them with you!