Tuesday August 15

Day 19 – Untethered

The project: A month-long stint of pounding the fields and lanes of Sussex in my hapless and ill-advised attempt to complete a quintessentially English 5k race between two local pubs. Yes, a pint of beer awaits every finisher!

Dear Reader,

I apologise for the overplayed metaphor, but if you were suddenly unchained, untethered, off-the-leash and free as a bird for the first time in eight years, well, I expect you would be shouting about it too!

Photo by Phạm Chung 🇻🇳 on Unsplash

Now, I loved my old insulin pump. It brought me so much more freedom than my previous multiple daily injections (MDI) regimen. But yesterday I started on my new – tubeless – insulin pump, and although it’s early days it’s already making a huge difference to me not to be attached to a piece of hardware via a 70cm-long rubber hosepipe 23 hours and 54¹ minutes a day, seven days a week.

• I don’t have anything to disconnect before I get into the shower.

• There’s no tube to trip me up or wind itself around me overnight or get caught on any door handles I’m passing.

• And – this one is most relevant to the Jog log 🏃🏻 – I don’t have to stuff the pump (and stow the hosepipe safely) into the pocket of my sports bra to go for a run.

I AM FREE.

With that in mind, I’ve just got back from a run. And golly gosh, I am FLYING.

Thank you for reading – I really appreciate you.

With so much love,

Rebecca xxx

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The Jog Log Stats – Day 19
Session: Run
Distance covered: 4.77 km
Duration: 38:13 minutes
Average speed: 7.5 kph

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Thank you for reading my Jog log!

Follow my month-long stint of pounding the fields and lanes of Sussex in my attempt to complete a quintessentially English 5k race between two local pubs.

I’m not sending these posts out by e-mail, but you can always check in with how things are going by clicking Jog log 🏃🏻 in the top navigation bar on the web browser version of my Substack homepage.

1. Daily 6-minute shower, for which I would have to disconnect my old pump – which on a bad day would mess with my diabetes management for the next two hours.