The Park Run/Walk

So this year our family wanted to participate in more Park Runs, actually we are still in the Park Walk phase.

It really is an outstanding community project that is free to all and you get your time after your Run sent via e-mail. It is a worldwide thing and also is supported by Discovery Vitality so you earn Vitality points for each "Run" you do. It has a few other sponsors but is mostly run by the great Park run volunteers in your community.
Park Run SA Website

The weekend before last we went with 2 of our 3 dogs. So this weekend I said to Mr P that it was unfair to leave only one behind. He said that the third dog tugged and pulled and did not behave so he wasn't coming. Well I got my way and the 3 dogs,2 children and their parents all jumped into the car at 7:30 on a Saturday morning. Actually I think the dogs had jumped into the car way before we where ready to go as we had left the boot open while packing the car. If they had known how they would have been hooting the hooter. (If they had done that Mr P says they would have all been left behind.)

We arrived at the Run a bit early and had to wait at the start with all other types of dogs. (Great Dane's,Beagles,Labs,Dachshunds and other mutts.) Our Lab and Border Collie waited patiently but the dreaded third dog whined and whined and had no manners whatsoever. I started to believe that Mr.P was right about him. The time arrived and off we went pulling,dragging,fighting with said mutt. This boy did not give 2 hoots about the injured shoulder. At about the 3 km point one of the volunteers overheard me say to the dog that he was never coming again and he said aw shame he will be better next time. Ha Ha Ha. Now this mutt is thin and fast we have always said that in any race he would either come first or be the "rabbit". Sadly for him we where far from coming first. On this revelation I decided we had to go at a faster pace for him, we at least had to make him think that he was winning so we over took the group of people in front of us and went faster, well then he wanted the whole family to go faster if we got to far ahead of the pack he kept on looking over his shoulder. He was either teasing the Lab or checking where the family was. As this was a loop section we past the same volunteer again and this time he said look he is much better now. Yes he was but if we went any faster he would have to pull his owner up the last hill.

I want to post this ad on the ParkRun Website:

Speedy Dog looking for volunteer runner to run with him. Current owners are too slow. All runners with previous or current first place positions will have the honour of running with Charlie. He might even help you improve your current time.
Look how cute he is:

We did survive but the question is will Charlie get to come again. I am still undecided about that one.
The advantage is that we did try a bit harder and worked up a bit more of a sweat but I am not so sure I enjoyed it or even if the dog did to be honest the other dogs sniffed and did all  the dog usually fun things but Charlie's sole purpose was to go faster where is the fun in that?

To Park Run SA and especially Park Run Boksburg  thanks for helping us get fitter in 2016.

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Kim

Happy new year,Diabetes resolutions and more

Happy 2016

Once again we are starting a new year and one more year to add to the number of years I have lived with Diabetes.

I started off the new year going to the doctors. I know I have talked about my onsie on this blog before See the post here but in winter last year I put on the God forsaken onsie and in doing so injured my arm. I then proceeded to leave it hoping it would get better. Well it did not and my doctor said I had damaged the muscle in the  rotator cuff of my shoulder or something like that. Once again this required that terrible stuff called cortisone injected into the joint. My Doctor said no don't worry as it is going into the joint it should not effect your blood sugars. HA HA by the end of the day my sugar was at 23.5 mmol/l or 423 mg/dl. The effects of the cortisone have now worn off but the shoulder does not seem to be fixed. I refuse to believe that I have torn the muscle (Requiring Sugery) there by putting on a onsie so I am forever hopeful.

Last year I also did a post about other Auto immune disorders See the post here. to try and point out that Diabetes is not so bad and to give us some inspiration. Well another Auto-immune syndrome has been in the news - Guillain- Barre Syndrome and Andrew Tucker, Andrew Tucker was diagnosed with this disease in January 2015 and this was the year that he was to write his Matric. He was out of school for 6 months of the year and passed as one of SA's top achievers. Here is an almighty thumbs up to you Andrew Tucker you truly do inspire other people living with a chronic condition.

http://www.news24.com/Live/SouthAfrica/News/watch-top-sa-matric-says-his-rare-disease-motivated-him-to-study-medicine-this-year-20160108

Lately I also heard a story about a student trying to get into university for 2016 she did not get accepted into the university as all the allocated places for White people had already been filled,but she was accepted due to her Diabetes Disability.Now there is a chance to prove to them how disabled we all are.

I hope each one of us gets to achieve all we want to in 2016.

This is my funny take on what actually happens to those Diabetes Resolutions lets try to at least get a pass mark in some of these resolutions.

Diabetes Resolutions for 2016	What usually happens in  2016
More exercise	Eat More Chocolate
Improve HBA1C	Marry the lab tech and get him to forge your blood results
Change lancet	Only change lancet when someone else uses your test machine.
Diet diet diet	Search for new pancreas on OLX
Have no lows or highs all year	Try be nice to people when you bg is low
Throw away all used test strips	Buy carpet that blends in with test strip colour
Count all carbs	Forget how to count carbs.
Run the park run don’t walk the park run	Injure yourself at park run and never return
Check bg more often	Test bg often until the battery runs out then keep on forgetting to buy a new battery.

Please please please use the comments section of this New Years post to add suggestions of what you would like to see on the blog anything goes here so all suggestions will be considered.