#96 Running the NYC Marathon with Type 1 Diabetes featuring Falyn Shilts

Running a marathon is an accomplishment for anyone but running a marathon with type 1 diabetes on board is especially awe inspiring! Today my guest is Falyn Shilts. Falyn is a type 1 warrior who was diagnosed as a teen. She's now is a mother of four who is crushing her goal of proving to herself and to the world that, even with type 1 diabetes, she can do anything. Listen in as I get to interview Falyn before and then after she runs the New York City Marathon as part of the Beyond Type 1 team! Also, check out the links below to find Falyn on Social Media. She's a fun follow! 

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Episode Transcript

Katie (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to episode 96 of the sugar mamas
podcast.
Today.
My guest is Falyn Shilts.
Falyn has been living with typeone since she was a teenager.
She has four kids.
Yes, four kids, And justfinished training for and
running the New York citymarathon in November.
She's here today to talk to meabout her experience.

(00:21):
The first half of this episodeis me interviewing her before
the race.
And the second half is of meinterviewing her after the race.
So you get a little before andafter synopsis.
I am truly amazed at any personwho runs a marathon, but
especially a person who runs amarathon with type one diabetes.
What an accomplishment.
All right, let's get started.

(00:41):
I hope you enjoy the show.
You're listening to the sugarmamas podcast, a show designed
for moms and caregivers of typeone diabetics here.
You'll find a community oflike-minded people who are
striving daily to keep theirkids safe, happy, and healthy in

(01:02):
the ever-changing world of typeone.
I'm your host and fellow T one Dmom, Katie Roseboro.
Before we get started.
I need you to know that nothingyou hear on the sugar mamas
podcast should be consideredmedical advice.
Please be safe, be smart, andalways consult your physician
before making changes to the wayyou manage type one diabetes.

(01:26):
Thanks.
Hey everybody.
I am here with Falyn Shiltstoday, and Falyn, I would love
it if you would introduceyourself and tell the listeners
how you are connected to theworld of Type one diabetes.

Falyn (01:41):
Yeah.
Hi Katie.
I'm excited to be here with youtoday.
So I have type one myself.
I have had it for 25 years.
I was diagnosed when I was 14.
and I'm about to be 40, it wasNew Year's Eve and, you know, on
winter break and I was, youknow, I had all the symptoms
that week and my mom said, youknow what, before the holiday,

(02:02):
before everything closes, let'sjust go check it out.
And sure enough, spend NewYear's Eve in the hospital.

Katie (02:08):
Mm.
yeah.
14.
That's a, i I feel like that'sgotta be a rough age to get a
diagnosis like that.
I don't know.
Do you, what do you rememberabout your diagnosis?
I mean, were you absolutelydistraught or were you like,
well, I guess this is what itis, let's move on.
Or how did it go for you?

Falyn (02:22):
Yeah, I mean I'm like, like I remember the biggest
thing for me was like going backto school cuz we were on winter
break, so there was like twoweeks and I'm like, oh my God,
I'm gonna go back and how am Igonna tell all my friends, you
know, I'm gonna have to go tothe nurse's office all the time.
You know, I'm gonna have toexplain to everybody like what
everything is and, you know, Ididn't want people you know,

(02:44):
like I didn't want thequestions, you know, I was 14.
I may now bring the questionson.
I love it.
But back then you know, I didn'twant people asking me about it.
I didn't wanna show my pump.
I did not want any of that.
So my core group of friends,like who I ate lunch with, who I
was in activities with, like,they.
But it was a big adjustment forsure.
At 14 It was just your life'sturned upside down.

(03:07):
But I accepted it.
I mean, my mom always says like,she remembers, like, I just took
it on myself.
Like I always did the shots.
Like I just always managed itmyself.
Like I didn't want my parents toreally do it for me, so,

Katie (03:21):
I'm, I'm sure that was a, a good thing and maybe not a
great thing at the same time.
I mean, you know what I mean?
Like, I, as a parent, at leastif there, you know, you kind of
wanna have a little bit ofcontrol, but but also as a
parent, I think it would bereally nice to have somebody
take some of that control awayfrom you, you know, take some of
the responsibility away from youand share in it

Falyn (03:39):
yes.

Katie (03:40):
Well, Fallon and I live in the same city.
We have actually met each otherin real life.
And I, last year, last summersummer of 2021, I was dropping
my boys off at camp.
And Sarah was with me.
She wasn't going to the camp,but I was, she was just with me
to for drop off.
And Fallon was also dropping oneof her kids off at the same
camp.
And she saw Sarah's Dexcom andkind of elbowed, elbowed her or

(04:01):
elbowed me.
I don't remember, but it waslike, ah, I have type one too.
And.
you know, asked Sarah a fewquestions about diagnosis and
whatnot.
And then Fallon, you know wasjust asking me like, I think you
had asked me if I had gottenconnected with J D R F and I
had, and I told you a little bitabout the podcast.
And anyway, so we've kind ofbeen following each other on
social media and have run, runinto each other a couple times

(04:23):
over the past year.
But I have been wanting to haveFallon on for a couple different
reasons, but most recently she'staken.
An amazing feat of training fora marathon with or through the
Beyond Type One organization.
So I have lots of questionsabout that and I can't wait to
hear about it.
So is, is this your firstmarathon,

Falyn (04:42):
It is my first full marathon.
I have done two halves in thepast one, four years ago, and
then one just this pastFebruary.

Katie (04:50):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (04:51):
so this is my first full one.
And I, it's a New York Citymarathon with Beyond Type one,
and I used to live in New YorkCity and after college I lived
there for three years.
And I would watch the race, likeit was a thing, you know, a big
weekend event.
You would watch the runners andI always thought like, wow, like
this would be so cool to be ableto run a marathon, you know?

(05:13):
But.

Katie (05:13):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (05:14):
know, back in my head it's like, oh, you know, I'm
diabetes.
How am I gonna go that far?
But just seeing the peoplerunning it of all ages, all
sizes it just always stuck withme.
And then the last, so the lasthalf marathon I did was the
Disney Princess and it was withJ D R F.
So there was a bunch of us.
With diabetes or parents ofrunning it for their kids,

(05:36):
raising money and helping raiseawareness.
I did it and I felt pretty goodafter, and I'm gonna be 40 this
year, so I'm like, this would beso cool if I could run a
marathon before 40.
And then I think like a fewweeks later, someone I know in
the type one community who's abig.
He posted something that there'sa team with beyond type one you

(05:59):
had to apply to be on it.

Katie (06:01):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (06:02):
I applied, kind of forgot about it, and then he messaged
me.
He is like, Hey, did you everapply?
Like we're waiting to hear Did,I just wanted to know cuz I
haven't received anything.
I'm like, oh no, I totally evenforgot.
So anyways long story short I'mon the team.
There's about 50 of us from allover living with type one
running New York City.

Katie (06:22):
do you know anybody else personally that's on the team,
or will you be meeting everybodyfor the first time in person
once you get there?

Falyn (06:27):
Yeah, I've never met any of these people in person.
Some of them I know just fromsocial media, you know,
following them differentaccounts just, you know, one or
two people like we've chatted afew times through text message.
But no, it's gonna be awesome.
Just meeting together andthere's some cool things, you
know, when you're a part of theteam.
with different sponsors and it'sjust a great nonprofit, great

(06:51):
organization.
What they do, they put out a tonof resources ju for beyond for
type one s, but now they're alsodoing a lot of work with type
two also.
So that's a, obviously we know ahuge crisis

Katie (07:04):
Yes, I was just actually the last last week's episode
that I published was the lastchap was going over the last
chapter of Think Like aPancreas, the book, and that
chapter is all about resourcesand it, the section on websites.
I was like, whenever I do aGoogle search for anything
diabetes related, the firstwebsite that always pops up is
the B Beyond Type one website.
And I always end up therebecause their resources are

(07:26):
always so great, so thorough.
They, they definitely are doinga lot of great things for the
diabetes community.
And I just, I love that they'renot only like putting out
resources for, you know, peoplejust to like, educate you and,
and, and whatnot, but like, justthe encouragement of like, Hey,
we wanna show the world that,like people that have type one
or type two can really doanything including running a

(07:48):
marathon.
So is, do you know how manyyears they've been doing this?
Like, what year will this be forthem?

Falyn (07:53):
I don't know exactly.
I know this is the first onethey've done in two years
because of Covid.
They've done a few though.
I know, cuz like when I'velooked at their website, their
resources they do have storiesfrom a lot of different runners.
I don't know, I'll have to findout.
I don't know how long they'vebeen a charity team.
But yeah, it's like then theirname beyond type one.
You know, like we're type onedoesn't define us.

(08:14):
You can definitely go beyond anddo so much more.
So I'm excited just to prove tomyself, obviously that I can do
this, but then just everyoneelse to show that, you know,
your Type one diagnosis does notdefine you.

Katie (08:28):
Yeah.
So was it, you think that wasyour primary motivation to, to
prove it to yourself or

Falyn (08:32):
So, yeah.
Yeah, I think that, and thenalso just I've always been
active working out, but never adistance runner, you know, I
would do two or three miles andthen my blood sugar would crash.
And just with anything, if Iwould go on the elliptical or
just any site type of cardio Iwould just be like 30, 40
minutes.
But, I'm the type of person,like I need something to work

(08:54):
towards, to keep me motivated,to keep me going.
And I have four kids, so I, youknow, it's a lot, but I feel
like, like for me, like I wannado it for me and obviously to
raise awareness and help andshow other people they can do it
too.

Katie (09:09):
Yeah, I think that that's wonderful.
I know that for myself, like Ijust, I mean, I just hate, I
hate running I, I love to workout.
I, I really and truly, I, I saythat sincerely.
I know of a lot of people whoare like, well, you're crazy.
But I do, I love to work out.
I love to feel strong.
I love to feel in shape, but I,I absolutely hate running.
I always have, and I, I blame myelementary school PE teacher who

(09:30):
was He was like a horrible.
Saying he's a horrible person,is a, is a strong is a strong
statement, but he would like,make fun of us when we were
running, you know, the, thepresidential fitness test that
you had to do when you were akid.
Like yeah.
He would like be making fun of,of us.
And, and I was never a goodrunner, so I would always be in
the back and he would be like,heckling us.

(09:51):
And, and so I think for, I thinkfor me, running is more of a
mental, just like block of like,I've always hated this.
And whatnot.
But I do have also have the typeof personality where I like to
prove things to my own self.
And at one point in my life Iwas like, okay, I hate running,
but maybe that's just cause I'mbad at it.
So I will train for somethingand see if maybe I like it after

(10:14):
that.
So I tr I did the Gate Riverrun, which is Yeah.
How F this's not half marathon.
What is that?

Falyn (10:18):
10 K.
Yeah.
So nothing

Katie (10:20):
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I did that twice and Ilegitimately trained for it, and
I decided I still hated runningeven after even after that.
So I think my running careermight be over, but I do still
love to do other types ofexercise.
But but yeah.
So, so you c you kind of reachedout to be on type one now, the,
the New York, the New York CityMarathon, that's, that's a huge
race.
I mean, I've, I would sayarguably maybe one of the most

(10:43):
like well known famousmarathons.

Falyn (10:45):
marathon in the world.

Katie (10:46):
Wow.
Wow.
Yeah, and I mean, so as like ifyou're running with a team, like
beyond type one, do you stillhave to go through like the
whole qualification process?
Because don't you have toqualify for that one, right?
Or

Falyn (10:57):
you're with a charity team, no, you don't have to
qualify

Katie (11:00):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (11:01):
a lot of people were asking me, they're like, how did
you get a spot?
Because they were applied, Iguess, with the lottery.
So now with the charity team,you do not, you do need to raise
a minimum amount of funds forfundraising for the charity.
So I have a$3,000 minimum.

Katie (11:16):
Okay.

Falyn (11:17):
you know, I'm just doing a few fun things, obviously
monetary donations.
And then there's this winecompany that donates a portion
of their proceeds back tocharities.
And my friend makes these cute Tone D strong bracelets and a
hundred percent of the profitsgoes to charity.
So she picks like a charity eachmonth.
So just looking for fundraise tohelp fund differently, to raise

(11:38):
money.

Katie (11:39):
Yeah.
Oh, that is fun.
Well, let me send me some linksto things and I can put it out
there for people too to donate alittle bit towards

Falyn (11:47):
Yeah.
Thank you.

Katie (11:47):
That'd be great.
So okay, running.
is for me, challenging enoughperiod, but I feel like running
with type one diabetes, that'slike a whole different level of
challenging and all these sortthings you have to take into
consideration.
So what, so what are, I'm justcurious, like what are you, are
you still M D I or have youswitched to a pump?
What are you

Falyn (12:08):
All right, so right now I use mdi, I, the pens.
I have Truce and NovoLog, and Ihave a Frees Libra sensor with
the team, our sponsor, what afew of our sponsors.
One is Dexcom and one is Tandem.
So anybody who wants that,they're giving six.
Worth of supplies and they'reloaning you a pump to train, use

(12:31):
it.
So I just actually just sent inall my paperwork, my
prescriptions for that becauseI, there's a lot that goes into
it.
Right.
And I feel like I don't know.
It's just like I, I've been on apump before.
it was great.
I went off of it just because Ithink my body just needed a
break.
I went off of the Omnipod sixyears ago, and I think just with

(12:54):
this technology running thatlong of a distance will really,
really help.
I mean, I know people that haveit.
They love it.
I don't ha really have an issuewith Lowe's at all.
The Treva has really helped mewith my Lowe's.
My issues are more, all right,if I wake up, let's say I'm one
40, great number, you know,perfect number.

(13:15):
I would just, if I was going torun three or four miles, I would
not eat anything and I wouldcome back fine.
But what I've been finding with,you know, longer distances is I,
I don't know if it's myadrenaline, you know, so many
things affect your blood sugar,but I'm going higher.
so it's like kind of like atesting and tweaking period.

(13:35):
Now, and I don't want to givemyself insulin because running
is gonna just increase thesensitivity of it.
Like this morning for example, Iwas just doing a quick 30 minute
run.
My blood sugar was what was, oh,I was like two 15 when I woke
up, which is really not likemyself.
I usually wake up like under one20.

(13:57):
But I'm like, you know, I'mgonna go run.
Usually if I'm high, I'llcontinue to go high if I don't
have anything in my system.
So I gave myself two units.
I didn't drop low, but my arrowwas trending down.
But I didn't drop low though.
I ended up at like, I think oneat 180.
It was trending down and then Iwas holding study at like one

(14:17):
50, so that's fine.
But there's so many like everyday's different.
furthest I've ran.
It was 12 miles.
I did that last weekend and it'scrazy.
I got these you know, energy andhydration and the fuel for long
distances.
I'm like, I'm gonna needsomething.
I've been testing a lot ofdifferent gels and things to see

(14:38):
what works for me.
But this one product, it had 50carbs.
It's a drink thing, 50 carbs.
And someone I know on the teamused it and she said she did not
give herself insulin cuz it'snot supposed to spike.
And she was fine.
I'm like, this is sointeresting.
So I was really nervous.

(14:59):
It did not spike me

Katie (15:01):
At all.

Falyn (15:02):
dose for it.
I went up to like one 90 theentire time and the whole 12
miles.
And I had a gel that I think hadlike 30 carbs in it.
So it's like my body, thedistance and the energy, I think
it was just burning off.
But

Katie (15:18):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (15:19):
mean, these are the things, you know, why you gotta
learn and try?
Cause I, you know, I don't know.
So that was just reallyinteresting.
If I were to eat 50 carbs

Katie (15:28):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (15:29):
I would need to dose for it.
But I guess it's like theingredients, like it's supposed
to control blood sugar and keepyou steady.
But it was interesting.
So think

Katie (15:38):
So you, you drank that and then you went for a run,
right?
Like you

Falyn (15:42):
Yeah, so I, I drank half of it and for the second half in
my water bottle that I carrywith me to like sip on as I go
because I, I, my fear, I don'tcare about going high, my fear
is going low during exercise cuzthat is the worst feeling in the
world and it can really like,Shut you down.
Like you don't wanna do it, youdon't have the energy.

(16:03):
But I, when I have high bloodsugars, it's not as bad.
I feel

Katie (16:08):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (16:09):
you're exercising, it's definitely not as bad.
But I think I'm excited to trythe pump.
Just to like these situations,you know, cuz when I did the
half marathon in Disney, I ranat 300.
I would not come down.
I even gave myself insulin cuz Igot scared.
I'm like, God, like is somethinggonna happen to me?
Am I gonna collapse?

(16:29):
Am I gonna get dehydrated?
I was really scared and I stayedat 300 and then after I came
down, so I don't know if it wasthe adrenaline.

Katie (16:39):
Yeah.
I mean, I have no idea.
I don't have type one, and I'venever run a marathon or even a
half marathon.
But I've, I have heard severalpeople say that like training
for something that big, they,you know, they, they might run
low if they don't, you know, Iguess do things you know, overdo
it on the insulin.
But, but on race day, thatadrenaline kicks in and it's
like if they don't take insulin,then yeah, they're gonna be like

(17:02):
running, running high for mostof.
So you don't feel so likerunning at 300 for you, you
don't feel necessarily anydifferent than, like if you were
running at like one 20, doesthat feel different to you
physically?

Falyn (17:16):
Yeah, I mean it's definitely harder.
I mean, I don't run three, likeI don't let myself like all the
time.
This was just like an instanceduring the marathon, but I was
like drinking and like I said, Ieven like dosed myself cuz I was
not coming down I mean, it'sdefinitely harder, you know,
more stress on your body.
You don't have as much energy.
But I think that was just morethe adrenaline and everything.

(17:38):
And that, it's interestingbecause someone who was it?
I think someone, something thatI was reading, you know how
people li.
Recently they're wearing theglucose monitors if they don't
have diabetes, to see how foodand exercise affect them.
Well, someone was saying thatthey were like 180 to 200 during
like a race, and the adrenalineis what caused them to spike.

Katie (18:02):
That's interesting.
I, I wore a Dexcom for 10 daysonce cuz my friend whose
daughter's in a research trial,clinical research trial, she had
like all these extra suppliesand I saw my, I saw my number
spike probably to like 180, Ithink it was during a spin class
one time.
So yeah, I just wonder if it waslike, you know, those.
Sprints and then you're kind ofcompeting against yourself and

(18:23):
competing against each other, peother people in the class.
I mean, I'm assuming that's whatit was, cuz I was a little bit
freaking out about that.
But maybe that's normal and wejust, nobody realizes that
because nobody's been wearingthese Dexcoms all the time.
you know?

Falyn (18:36):
right.
We don't know how our bodyreacts.
What's it doing inside?
It's

Katie (18:39):
Mm-hmm.
,I know.
It is, it is.
Well, I know you said you don'tum, first of all, I love Tcea.
I I just wanted to comment onthat.
Like, Sarah has been on theOmnipod pump for a long time
now, but when we switched to,when she was m d I and we made
the switch to Tcea, it was just,it was, the world made the world
of difference.
Like, I don't know what it isabout that long-acting insulin,

(19:01):
but it just holds you nice andsteady and it's, I don't know,
It's great.

Falyn (19:05):
really good.
I'll tell you I've tried LantisLair cuz at times my insurance
didn't wanna cover Riva.
It, it was a nightmare.
It, I was not feeling good.
I was fluctuating like crazyTruces.
I mean, it works really well forme, so we'll see.
But I am gonna try the pump.

Katie (19:24):
Okay.
When will you get it?
When?
When do we get that in the mail?

Falyn (19:27):
I don't know.
I just the Dexcom came, thepump, I just had to fill in the,
they were a little behind on thepaperwork, so I just sent that
in today.
So hopefully within the next twoweeks.

Katie (19:39):
Okay.
Yeah, cuz the marathon's earlyNovember.
Right?
So that's a little over twomonths away, so that'll be a lot
of time to kind of play aroundwith it and train with it before

Falyn (19:48):
yeah.

Katie (19:49):
Okay.
Are you doing any races beforethis race?
Because I know some crazyrunners that they're like, yeah,
I'm doing a marathon in October,but I'm also doing a half
marathon the week before thatI'm like, what is wrong with
you?

Falyn (20:01):
someone, a bunch of people on our Beyond Type one
team, they're like running amarathon in October.
Like they just, they runmarathons.
They run No, I am not.
Actually this weekend I'mlooking at my training schedule.
It says half marathon.
I'm supposed to do a halfmarathon.
But I honestly, I've beenslacking a little with the
training I haven't been gettingas many miles during the week as

(20:23):
I should.
I should be running three daysand I'm really running two So
this weekend I'm meeting up withsomeone who lives about 20
minutes from me.
She's not type one, but she'srunning the New York City
Marathon for another charity.
For a brain cancer charity.
But we're gonna meet up in Nakaiand run the bridge because she
doesn't, like, we ran 12 lastweekend.

(20:44):
She doesn't like to do too long,runs back to back.
So she's like, let's get abridge in.
So we're gonna go work thebridge because New York, there's
a few bridges we're gonna becrossing

Katie (20:54):
Oh

Falyn (20:55):
so that.

Katie (20:55):
That's exciting.

Falyn (20:56):
Because you know, your glutes and quads, they're bigger
muscles and like going up thehill, the incline, that's gonna
affect my blood sugar.
I'm sure

Katie (21:05):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, that's true.
I didn't even think about thebridges in New York.
Yeah, those are some hefty,hefty bridges.
Now, are you gonna turn thisinto like a little mini
vacation?
Because if I was going to runthe New York City Marathon, I
would definitely find a way tolike extend that stay for a
couple days.

Falyn (21:19):
I know, well, that's, it's kind of up in the air right
now.
My husband has to go to LasVegas the following week for a
conference.
My four, my, my six year old,she's dying to go to New York
City.
I have four kids, 2, 6, 10, and12 The others kind of, I'm not
bringing the baby and the othershave no interest and I don't

(21:44):
know.
So at first it was just gonna beme and my husband and the six
year old,

Katie (21:49):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (21:49):
but now he's not sure if he wants to go because he has to
travel the following week.
I don't know.
I might take a meat trip andjust alone time I, I don't know.
I think because Saturday theteam has a lunch, we're doing a
team lunch and there's, I guesswe're the space where it's being
held they're not allowing anyguests or you know, family

(22:12):
members, cuz that would turninto a lot of people cuz there's
50 of us, plus the sponsors andthe beyond type one.
and then the race Sunday, um, itstarts at 1130.
I have to get the 8:45 AM ferryand I'm gonna be running, it's
gonna be all day.
five and a half hours So I don'tknow if I'm gonna bring anyone.

(22:36):
It sucks cuz like I want them tobe there when I cross the finish
line,

Katie (22:39):
Yeah.

Falyn (22:40):
but I think it's just a lot

Katie (22:41):
Mm, yes.
I don't, I mean, I know myopinion doesn't matter, but my
vote would be to have, have a, asolitary, a sol, a weekend of
solitude to get your, you know,get mentally prepared and all
that stuff.
That would

Falyn (22:54):
I think that's where I'm at.
Cause I think I would leaveFriday and just fly home Monday,
even though I'm probably gonnabe really sore.
but it's hard.
Cause you know, my husband, hehas his own business.
The kids are busy withactivities and we don't have
family really.
My mom lives in South Florida.
She's really the only one whohelps with the kids.
So

Katie (23:12):
Yeah.
That's really hard.
That's really, really hard.
Well, your husband would bethere while you were away,
right?
He's just, he's going outta townthe following week.
yeah.
It's tough.
Being a mom is so hard.
I actually I was supposed to gooutta town for a couple days a
week or two ago for sometraining for, for my, for my
other job, and it's just crazyhow hard it is.
Like it really just as a parent.

(23:34):
But I do feel like moms have aspecial extra role in the, you
know, kind of managing thelogistics of the home and the
family and everything.
And I mean, it was justridiculous how many cuz of
course my husband was like gonnabe traveling when I was supposed
to be gone, so I'm like, wellthat really throws a wrench in
things like just having to, toplan for grand.
And people who's gonna take yourkids to school?

(23:56):
Who's gonna pick'em up fromschool?
Where are they gonna spend thenight?
And then of course, my daughterhas type one, so who's, you
know, who's willing to managethat?
And anyway, it ended up, andthis wasn't, this wasn't my
decision cause I was kind ofstressing about, stressing about
the whole thing, but it ended upthat the um, they decided to do
the training virtually anyway.
And I'm like, you know, itwould've been nice to get away
for a few days, but it's.
it's just sometimes it's noteven worth it.

(24:17):
as a mom, I, the New York CityMarathon is definitely worth it.
I'm very excited for you, but Iwas just commiserating with you
that it's just so hard to getaway

Falyn (24:25):
I know.
And then the thing is, like inNew York, it's tiring, you know,
it's a lot of walking and Idon't wanna burn myself out.
So I haven't booked anythingyet, but I think I'm just gonna
go myself.

Katie (24:35):
I'm sure you'll have lots of pe I'm sure you'll meet lots
of friends immediately with the,the team that

Falyn (24:39):
and, and I used to live there and I have a ton of
friends who still live there, soI'll see them Friday night and
then do the team stuff Saturdayand then three Sunday.

Katie (24:48):
So when you, when you run a marathon, like I've heard you,
especially in New York, it'sgonna be a little cold in
November.
Like you, you like suit up andthen you kind of strip stuff off
as you run.
Or how does that, how does thatwork?

Falyn (24:59):
I dunno I don't know.
I think the average, they'resaying it ranges anywhere from
like 40 to 70 that time of year.
Like it could be warm, it couldbe cold.
but yeah, I mean, you warm up.
I mean, I.
Been running.
I mean, it's been warm here inFlorida, but the last one I did
the half was in February and Itrained and it was chilly out.

(25:20):
But yeah, I don't know whatpeople do if you layer we have
some clothing sponsors, so we'regonna get some clothing new
shoes.
I mean, hopefully they, they'recomfy.
But yeah, it's fine.
The sponsors giving us things.

Katie (25:32):
That's so fun.
I love that.
I feel like I might need to signup to run a marathon just for
the fun swag that you get fromall the sponsors.
Have you have you changed theway that you've.
You know, been eating, like,leading up to this.
I mean, you know, I, I, I knowwhen I was running, even though
it wasn't like as long as amarathon, it, I definitely could
tell a difference between like,if I would run after, you know,

(25:54):
on a day after I had like,really made an effort and made
healthy choices versus trying torun you know, after a day where
I really did not make healthychoices and ate a bunch of junk
food.
And I'm, I know blood sugarsobviously add another level to
that whole equation too.
So have you changed anythingabout the way you've been

Falyn (26:11):
Um, I mean, not really.
I mean, I try to eat prettywell.
I mean, I have.
you know, obviously you'reburning more calories when you
run.
You gotta make sure you'rereplenishing your body so that
you don't break down muscle.
I mean, nothing major.
I mean, I can't run really like,I like to run on an empty
stomach, which I know is goodfor long distance.

(26:32):
You know, like last weekend whenI did 12 my friend's, like I had
half a bagel before.
I'm like, I know.
But then if I eat that, like I'mgonna have to give some sort of
insulin and I don't want it tomess with my blood sugars So
that's why I did half that drinkto see if it would help.
So I feel like you just gottafind, you know, kind of what
works for you.
But you know, I'm definitelytrying to eat more balanced and

(26:54):
pay attention more to like theamount of calories.
And cuz I do need to be eatingmore when I do run the longer
distances and especiallyreplenishing the next day after,
you know, during day to havegood things on hand.
So I'm not just grabbing, youknow, oh my kids are eating mac
and cheese, let me eat that Itdoes play a big role.

(27:16):
And I'm gonna get more tuned inhere, as it gets closer.

Katie (27:20):
Well, it's not easy to, to, well, I don't think it's
easy to, I just love to eat, soit's hard to eat healthy all the
time.
I mean, you know, you gottaenjoy, enjoy life at the same

Falyn (27:29):
the pasta, I mean, I love carbs.
I don't restrict carbs.
But just everything inmoderation.

Katie (27:36):
Sure.
Absolutely.
I know, I was thinking about my,my husband actually just peeked
his head in here and wavedgoodbye cuz he's, He's going to
play golf for a friend'sbirthday.
I'm like, what are, what islife?
I mean, it's Friday.
What are So he's, anyway, he'sdoing that and I won't see him
before I leave to go.
But I was thinking about him cuzhe he's like the type of person,
like where I, if I was gonna runa race, I would be like,
Training, like following somesort of schedule and trying to

(27:59):
eat healthier.
But he has run way more runsthan I have, and he never
trains.
And he eats horrible the wholetime.
And then he, the two, the twoGate River runs Iran.
He, he beat me by like a ton.
I'm like, I hate you.
It's

Falyn (28:14):
Some people, it's crazy.
Some people just, they don'tneed to follow anything.
They don't.
They can do what they want.

Katie (28:21):
I know.
Yep.
That's my husband.
And I think he was, you know howpeople like to, like frats from
the lo, you know, university ofFlorida, which is in town.
Like, they're like handing outlike beer and, and brat worse
during the race.
And he's like eating thesethings.
I'm like, what?
I don't know how you survivedthat honestly, but so you are.
you kind of already touched onthis a little bit, but I know
you're, you're so busy.

(28:42):
You're, you're, you have fourkids.
That's like enough said rightthere, but like, when are you
fitting these runs in?
Do you try to run in themorning?
Are you running, what are you,what are you kind of getting

Falyn (28:50):
Yeah, so I, there's a friend in my neighborhood she
likes to do short distance.
2, 3, 4 miles.
Nothing crazy.
We just, we connected maybe likea year ago.
We started running together justto get exercise in and we go
before the kids go to school.
We try to do at least twomornings during the week.
Typically Tuesday, Thursday isour day.

(29:12):
And then with this marathontraining program that I'm
following, I'm supposed to berunning Wednesdays, like
Tuesdays and Thursdays is threemiles.
Wednesdays is supposed to belike a little heavier, like 4,
5, 6 miles.
I just think with the summer,the kids getting back to school,
like I feel like this week I'vekind of gotten my groove back,
but it was hard waking up.

(29:34):
Plus my two year old was sicklast week, so that didn't help
cuz she was waking up and, buttypically I like to run early
bef well before it gets so hothere, and humid

Katie (29:45):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (29:46):
or just after I drop off the kids at school.
And then the weekends, usuallySaturday or Sunday, depending
what we have going on on theweekends.
An early run, I can't run, likeafter I've had food in my body
all day.
Like I just, I just can't.

Katie (30:01):
I know.
I'm done at the end of the daytoo, like I, I, I like to work
out in the morning.
I just like to get it done.
I have more energy in themorning.
I'm the same way.
So I know you said you don'ttypically go low during, while
running, but I'm, I'm assumingyou carry something with you.
Like what do you, what do youprefer to carry on

Falyn (30:16):
Yeah, I mean, I've just been carrying I'll carry a pack
of fruit snacks already cut opencuz sometimes it's hard to when
you're sweaty to open it.
And just two gel packs.
I used to carry the glucose tabswith me, but.
I had the, like, the pow, like Ilike glucose tabs.
They don't bother me.

Katie (30:32):
Mm.

Falyn (30:32):
when I run, like in my pocket, if they're in the tube
or in like if I put them in aZiploc, they just like crank
like crumble at all.
And I'm like, ah, I'll just takethe gels or the fruit snacks.
So I take that with me.
I usually carry a water with ahydration packet in it.
and

Katie (30:49):
You probably, I would imagine when you're running with
a team from beyond type one, youprobably wouldn't have to run
with like glucagon on you oranything, but like is that ever
a thought or No,

Falyn (30:58):
no, no.
I, I haven't had that in myhouse since.
I think I was a kid.

Katie (31:04):
really.

Falyn (31:05):
Yeah.
Well, I was 14 when I wasdiagnosed.
I think in college.
I had one in our fridge.
But I don't, I don't have one

Katie (31:12):
Live it on the edge.
I like it.

Falyn (31:14):
I don't, I mean, knock on wood, I feel my lows, I don't
get them often at all anymore.
I mean, I think the lowest I'veever been was like 30, 35.
When I was living in New York,my husband, we were engaged and
I'm like, I like, I rememberlike sitting on the floor.
I just need glucose tablets.
I just need glucose tablets, Um,but yeah, I mean, I don't, well

(31:38):
during the race, the MarathonBeyond Pipeline's gonna have, I
guess their own stations andthen obviously throughout with
Gatorade and whatever else.
So I feel like during these longruns, it's like, I don't drink
the Gatorade, but like I'll sipon it just to give me something
get me going.

Katie (31:56):
yeah, yeah.
Well, I can't wait to uh, hearabout it.
I mean, will you, will you comeback on just for a quick little
recap and let us know how itwent and, you know, just with
just the run itself, but alsojust managing type one
throughout?
I would, I'd love to hear

Falyn (32:10):
Yeah.
I'm excited to share whathappens that day with my blood
sugars and the rest of thetraining.

Katie (32:16):
I know, me too.
I, I, I mean, I'm amazed atanybody who runs a marathon, but
even way more amazed withanybody with, type one and
that's, maybe it's just cuz youknow, we're still fairly new.
My daughter just hit her second.
Year, second anniversary.
And that just seems like such aaccomplishment to run a marathon
with type one.
So Congrat, congratulations evenfor, even for attempting.

(32:39):
I mean, I know you're acrossthat finish line, but

Falyn (32:41):
Yeah, it's I mean anyone, a marathon's a huge thing, but I
think just with the rightmanagement testing, tweaking,
you can do it.
you gotta get past it.

Katie (32:51):
Well, before we wrap up most of my listeners are parents
and caregivers of Type oneDiabetics.
So anything you want them toknow just in general about
managing type one for their kidsor just anything that, you know,
training for this has taught youthat you think would be good for
parents to hear.

Falyn (33:06):
Yeah, I mean, just know, you know, your child can live a
healthy, normal life as long asthey just take care of
themselves, you know?
fluctuations are normal.
It highs, lows.
It's part of it.
Don't beat yourself up ifthey're running high.
If they have a low, it happens.
It happens.
It's part of this disease.

(33:26):
So I've had 25 years, no signsof any complications.
No eye damage.
I mean, everything's okay.
Uh, For pregnancies.

Katie (33:38):
Yeah.

Falyn (33:38):
I mean, you have to like living with it as an individual.
I think it's important.
I think now more than everthere's, I don't remember ever
having all these resources withpodcasts, social media, like
there's so many ways you canconnect with people, but I did
go to a diabetes camp and Iremember just loving, like being
around others who had it.

Katie (33:58):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (33:58):
think just, you know, encouraging them and just
surrounding, I remember like mymom would drag me to a support
group at the hospital and Ihated going She's like, need to
meet other people, you know,have to go.
But I hated it,

Katie (34:14):
Moms are the worst, Well thank you so much for coming on.
Thank you for your time and goodluck to you and like I said,
we'll have you back on to giveus an update when you're, when
you're all

Falyn (34:23):
all right.
Thanks Katie.

Katie (34:24):
You're welcome.
Bye.
Okay.
Here is where we transitioned tothe second half of the episode
where I interview Fallon aftershe's run the race.
Enjoy.
All right, everybody.
I am back with Fallon Shiltstoday, and Fallon, I can't wait
to hear all about how yourmarathon went.
I've kind of purposefully notbeen.

(34:46):
Looking at or reading all ofyour social media posts that
you've put up since the race isover.
Cuz I wanna be a little bitsurprised when you tell me about
about it today, but just how didit go?
Just tell us about it.

Falyn (34:58):
Yeah, so it was.
The overall experience, likerunning the New York City
Marathon was incredible, butbeing a part of the Beyond Type
One team was like, I'm likegetting chills thinking about
it.
Like it was unlike anything I'veever, like, nothing I've ever
even imagined.
And just being in a room with,you know, 50 others living with

(35:23):
type one.
I've never been surrounded bythat many people with type one,
like we're all here runningtogether for beyond type one to
raise awareness and show theworld what it's like to live
beyond type one diabetes.
And we all just, we all wish wehad so much more time together
because we.
Um, A lot of us got in Friday,we had to be at the brunch

(35:46):
Saturday morning and there wasso much traffic because well
because of the marathon, butthe, there was some race going
on and the streets were shutdown and we didn't know.
And a lot of people, we werelike all an hour late to the
brunch.
And we all just, we wish we hadmore time together cuz we were
at the brunch and.
A lot of us had different starttimes for the race, so there was

(36:06):
a group of us that stucktogether.
We had the same start time.
We were around the same pace,but you know, just back to the
brunch for a second.
Like just, we met at the ASICstore in the West Village and
Asics was one of our sponsors.
And then um, tandem was there.
Dexcom was there.
Sunita Athletics was one of oursponsors, but they weren't there
with us.
And then Egg Life Foods, whichmakes the egg wraps um, they

(36:30):
were there.
They had like a whole spread.
It was just amazing like meetingeveryone in person, meeting face
to face.
Just, you know, some of us haveran marathons before, some of us
haven't.
You know, hearing from the c e oum, Deborah Duggan from beyond
Type one, it was just it wasincredible.
It was like one of the bestmornings of my life just being

(36:50):
with everyone and hearing thestories and it was really
awesome.

Katie (36:54):
So had you, had you met any of those people in person
before or was that their first

Falyn (36:58):
No, no one person a few of us were like chatting online.
There was one girl actually wespoke on the phone a few times
cause we kind of had similarstories.
Like she's a busy mom with youngkids.
She actually grew, she lives inthe town where I grew up.
So we had a lot in common.
We kind of hit it off.
But it was, we all like, becameinstant best friends.

(37:19):
Like it was crazy.
So it was awesome.
A lot of us went to the expoafter together and just the
whole, the race, I mean, it wasI, I kind of knew this going in.
Like I wasn't expecting my bloodsugars to be like they were
during training because of theadrenaline and.
just everything on race day.
And it was, I was correct itwasn't like anything during

(37:42):
training.
It wasn't just me, it was allthe others we were with too.
They were all like, oh my God,I'm spiking, I'm going high Like
we were all running high And itwas just nice being around other
people that understood.
You know, what it was likedealing with this the day of the
race.

Katie (37:59):
Yeah, and you're just, you know, you're not alone,
like, you're not like looking ateverybody else like, oh, these
people don't have to deal with,you know, these blood sugars.
But, you know, you're with agroup of people that are dealing
with the exact same thing thatyou're dealing with.
But how so?
I mean, I'm assuming that'sbecause of all the adrenaline
and the excitement and thenerves

Falyn (38:14):
Yeah, I mean, just everything.
So like I I was at the timedoing MDI and I had the Dexcom
And you know, typically I wouldrun in the morning or towards
the end I was training likemidday.
So I would see, cuz my starttime wasn't until 1130.
So you got a figure, you know,okay, we got up at six, you
know, we had to meet at seven toget on the ferry, to get to

(38:36):
Staten Island.
That was a whole process, youknow, just.
you know, planning.
Okay.
Like I definitely, I need totake some insulin in the
morning, you know, just to coverme.
And then I took a little bitless, not that much less because
I just knew, like I knew thatthe adrenaline was gonna make me
go high.
So I did that and then I got abagel.

(38:59):
I ate like a quarter of it.
Cause I just, I was so nervous Iwasn't hungry.
Ate a little bit of it.
I gave myself the normal amountof insulin and I was still
spiking you know, before therace started.
And I think just since thenerves everything leading up to
it.
But when we started running, Afew of us stuck together and I

(39:20):
would say around like miles six,seven.
Then we kind of drifted off.
Some had to go to the bathroom,some slowed down.
We had one girl who felt likeshe was gonna throw up her blood
sugars were running high, andshe actually did, she threw up
five times.
She vomited five times, but shefinished.

Katie (39:38):
I was gonna say, whoa, she finished the race.
Oh my gosh.

Falyn (39:42):
Yeah, there

Katie (39:42):
That's the

Falyn (39:43):
I know one girl who did not finish.
She just, her blood sugars, hervomiting, like she just was done
and she did not finish.
I think she's the only one onthe team.
Mostly everyone did finish.

Katie (39:54):
My, my heart goes out to her.
That's, that's rough, man.
You've trained for this thingfor a long time and then, I
mean, you know, obviously I'msure she could have done it
physically.
She would've, but.
That

Falyn (40:04):
Yeah, so I mean, so running with the blood sugars, I
mean, it was, I, I kind ofexpected it to be what it was.
You know, I was, yeah.
You know, I had the decks comeon, so, you know, it showed me
if I was going up, going downand then, you know, we're
running this long of a distance.
We, I know we need to fuel, likeI had my gels on me.

(40:25):
I was just thinking, oh my gosh,if I fuel and I'm 300, do I
bolus?
Like do I dose for it?
Because when I was training, myblood sugars were great.
I didn't need to, to give myselfinsulin at all during the runs.
But I, I was so nervous, likewhat was gonna happen to my
body?
Like I was thinking, God forbidI throw up, I pass out.

(40:47):
What's gonna happen?
So I did give myself Novalog twotimes, and I still didn't even
come down.

Katie (40:55):
That's crazy.

Falyn (40:56):
Yeah.

Katie (40:56):
Wow.
I mean, did you feel like you'renervous and everything and what
a vicious cycle cuz like your,your numbers are up probably cuz
of adrenaline and then you're,that's is stressful, right?
To see your numbers spiking likethat, especially when that
didn't happen before intraining.
So that probably adds to the, tothe spike factor with the stress
hormones and whatnot.
But did you feel, how did youfeel like physically, were you

(41:19):
feeling okay or was it kind ofa.

Falyn (41:21):
I mean, I felt, I, I feel like my blood sugars definitely
had an impact on my time.
You know, I, I was wearing aGarmin with my Dexcom connected
to it.
I wasn't really paying attentionto my pace, like I was honestly
just.
Like going with the flow, likethere was crowds nonstop.

(41:42):
The cheering, there was so muchto look at.
Like I didn't even, I made awhole playlist.
I didn't listen to my music.
Once.
You couldn't hear it.
The crowds were so loud.

Katie (41:52):
wow.

Falyn (41:52):
Yeah, it was unbelievable.
There was never a boring moment.
There was never a time when youwere like, oh my God, like how
am I gonna get through this?
Like, there was always somethingto look at, some signs, music.
It was incredible.
So I wasn't focusing on my pace.
Like when we started there wasthe Verano Bridge.
So that first two miles you'reon a bridge and one of the girls
is like, oh, we're at like a, Ithink it was like a 1230 pace.

(42:17):
She's like, this is a good paceto start off at.
We're slow.
I'm like, yeah.
I'm like, this is a perfectpace.
And like the first few miles Iwas at that pace.
And then Um, just slow down.
There was some times when I wasalone, you know, I wasn't
running with any, like, I wasn'talone.
There was obviously thousands ofpeople, but I was by myself and
I don't know if I was likewalking more or, you know, I, I

(42:39):
think my blood sugar definitelyhad an impact on my energy.
Obviously we know high bloodsugar makes you tired.
And I mean the heat, it was hotfor some people.
It was the second hottestmarathon in the history of New
York City.

Katie (42:53):
Wow.

Falyn (42:53):
It was in the seventies, but I was used to it cause
training down here in southFlorida, up North Florida, I was
used to it.

Katie (43:01):
Like, this is chill.
What?
Talking about, I'm freezing overhere.

Falyn (43:04):
I know everyone's like, oh, it's so hot.
I'm like, this is great weather.
But the time.
Okay.
So I was thinking based on mytraining time and you know, my
average pace that I would finishin max five hours and 30
minutes.
And I finished in six hours and19 minutes And my husband kept
calling me like, where are you?

(43:25):
Like, what's taking so long?
And I think just mentally too, Iwanted to finish and I didn't
want to.
Like burned myself out cuz Iknew it was a far distance.
Like the furthest I trained was20.

Katie (43:37):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (43:38):
The lady who used, who worked at the running store when
I was buying shoes, she's like,you know, I highly recommend you
train to 22 because when you'rerunning the race, you know
you're get to 20 but you stillhave 6.2 more, like you still
got a long distance.
So, She, I mean she suggested goto 22, but nobody on the team

(43:58):
did.
So I'm like, you know what?
20 is enough.
Like I was burnt out with thetraining, like I was tired,

Katie (44:04):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (44:04):
I'm like, okay, I've done 20, I know the crowds and just
everything will carry methrough.
And it did.

Katie (44:10):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (44:11):
But I did.
I got to my all 11 and I textedmy husband.
I'm like, I'm dying.
I'm so tired.
Like how am I gonna finish

Katie (44:19):
Aw.

Falyn (44:20):
And.
You know, you just men, it's amental gain.
Like you're doing this, you'redoing it.
And honestly, looking around atother people running that were
older than me, heavier inweight, you know, it's like you
look at these people and you'relike, wow, if they're doing it,
I could do it.
You know, I mean some, there issome, I remember some people I
took a picture of like theirbacks, their.

(44:42):
The things on there.
Shirt would say, like one guy,he was almost 80.
It was like his 30 somethingmarathon, and he was hobbling
along, but he was in front ofme.
You know, he was going fasterthan.

Katie (44:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh man.
I, but the important thing isthat you finished, oh my gosh.
I mean, what an accomplishment.
Like what an experience and whatan accomplishment.
And you crossed the finish line.
And I, it, it doesn't sound likeit was the, the most enjoyable
or best best race of your life,but it, it, I mean, man, what a,
what an accomplishment.

Falyn (45:18):
Yeah, it definitely you really, it like really changes
your life in a way.
It's like, wow, like you couldreally do anything.

Katie (45:27):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (45:27):
I mean, 1% of the population, I could say they ran
a marathon and then to throwtype one diabetes on top of it.

Katie (45:34):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (45:35):
It's just, you know, the, the challenges with type one and
what it does to your body andjust everything, like nobody
else deals with that.
And just another interesting,fun fact from the CEO of Beyond
Type One, there was 400charities.
Running the New York CityMarathon, whether it's for
cancer, you know, kids withdisabilities, you name it.

(45:58):
Like 400 charities Beyond TypeOne was the only charity that
every single person is livingwith the disease, right?
Like anybody can run for braincancer lymphoma.
You know, beyond Type one wasthe only charity that everybody
had, the disease.
So that.

(46:18):
Pretty cool and moving, justknowing what we were doing
together.

Katie (46:24):
Right.
Pushing through, despite the,the challenges.
How did it feel crossing thefinish line?

Falyn (46:29):
oh my God.
It was like such a relief.
It felt incredible, like It washonestly like the best feeling
ever.
And.
You know, it's funny when when Iwas pregnant, I think I was
reading an article and it wouldsay like, what your body goes
through when you're pregnant islike running a marathon.
And I never understood it untilI finished the marathon because

(46:53):
I'm not lying.
Katie, the next few days I feltlike I.
Like, my body was so sore.
Like I just gave birth like froma C-section, like how you're so
you could barely walk your,everything hurts.
Like I felt like I just gavebirth and I'm like, oh my God,
I've had four kids.
like this is exactly what mybody felt like.
Like this is crazy sore.

(47:16):
You are.

Katie (47:16):
Oh my gosh, it's so cra it's such a, you know, it's
funny because my brother-in-lawwas talking about a Mar
Marathons this past week.
I don't even remember how we goton the topic of marathons, but
Sarah asked him, like, how didthey decide the distance?
Like how did they decide?
The 26.2?
Right.
It's 26.2.
Isn't that what it is?
Yeah.
And.
He didn't know the story exactlyand I didn't go back and look it

(47:39):
up and I need to do that.
But he said it's, there's some,like, there's a history behind
it where like some, like duringwartime or something like that,
there was a guy who had todeliver a message.
Quickly, and he ran 26.2 milesand it was so physically taxing
on him that he literally droppeddead like the second that he got
to where he had to deliver themessage and And so they they

(48:00):
mapped the distance.
I guess maybe the town is evencalled Marathon, where he like
ended up, I don't even know.
I'm gonna have to look it up.
I could be just telling a bunchof lies right now.
So, sorry, everybody, go ahead.

Falyn (48:10):
I've read this.
I've read it cause were askingme like why this distance?
I've read it something.
There was like some, I dunno ifit was Greek, something.

Katie (48:19):
Yeah, he like had to, he had anyway.
And so after he dropped dead,he, they measured the distance
and I guess it was 26.2 milesand that's how they came up with
the distance of a marathon.
I don't know, it just, itdoesn't seem like a that would
be a natural distance for thenormal average person to be
running.
You know often at least.
But um, what, so what do you, Imean, are you, you think you're
gonna do it again, or you thinkyou'll do?

Falyn (48:40):
You know, I mean, I couldn't walk like I was so
sore.
But then like a few days byWednesday, so the race was
Sunday.
By Wednesday I was fine.
And you know, everyone on theteam, we were all chatting cuz
some people have, they runmarathons.
This is what they do.
Like there's one guy on the, ourteam, he has a goal to run a
marathon in every state by, youknow, however old he is.

(49:01):
You know, like a certaindeadline.
So we were all chatting aboutlike having a reunion, doing
something else.
And I think I personally wouldwanna do one again, just because
like, I feel like my bloodsugars really took such a toll
on me.
Cause the girl that I trainedwith, she.
We would run our long distanceruns together.

(49:21):
She did it in four hours and 40minutes and we ran together.
We trained the same pace.
I'm like, how did you do it thatfast?
And I did it in six hours.
In 20 minutes,

Katie (49:33):
Yeah, that is interesting.

Falyn (49:36):
I don't know if I wasn't like pushing myself, cuz I knew
I, I, I was nervous about thedistance.
I definitely was like, I woke upnervous, like I was just
nervous.

Katie (49:46):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (49:47):
About the distance and the day before the Saturday when
we had the brunch, like I had afriend who came into the city
and we were running around.
I definitely did not rest like Ishould, and I didn't really
train like how I wanted.
Like I definitely wanted to domore strength training and I
just did the runs.

(50:08):
You know, it's time consumingand fitting in the time with the
kids and everything.
So I would like to do anotherone just to really train
properly and maybe with, nowthat I'm trying the Tanem pump,
if my blood sugars would bebetter.
I don't know, but definitely nowthat I've done one, I know I
could do it.

Katie (50:27):
Yeah, yeah.
You absolutely can.
Wow.
That's And And so did the other49 or 50 people that were on
that team I was, I wanted toknow, you mentioned you were
texting with your husband and hewas like, where are you?
Was he just watching you, likeon an, on an app tracking you or
was he actually there?
I remember you saying in ourfirst interview that you were
kind of debating.
If you were gonna go with travelwith a family member or just go

(50:48):
by yourself.

Falyn (50:49):
So, yeah, so up until like a week before, actually I
was going alone.
My mom was going to stay with mykids.
My husband ended up.
He had to go to Boston and hewas flying home.
He was gonna come home onSaturday and he had something he
had to be at for work on Mondaymorning early.
So if he came to the race, itwould just be too tight.
He wouldn't be able to be backMonday morning.

(51:11):
So about, I don't know, a weekor 10 days before, he's like,
why aren't I going again?
And I'm like, I said, becauseyou have this thing Monday
morning.
And he looks at his calendar, heis like, it's must have gotten
canceled.
It's not on my calendar.
So he ended up taking the trainfrom Boston to New York
Saturday.
So he was able to be there andhe, he has a best friend that

(51:33):
lives there, so he hung out withhim when I was Saturday busy and
Sunday morning, obviously I was,it was all day.
I left the room at seven anddidn't get back till seven.

Katie (51:44):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (51:45):
a whole day event.
But he was actually, Trying tosee me on First Avenue and he
missed me but he did have theapp, but he didn't get there in
time.
He said, oh, I'll just meet youby the finish line.
So he ended up somewhere inCentral Park.
It was two or three miles left.
He was at that point.
And then where we exited thepark, he came there.

(52:07):
I mean just the whole route,everything.
It's crazy.
The city was just crazy.
he saw me towards the end andthen when I exited the park, but
he did, there was a tracking appwhere he could track me cuz he
kept saying like, why are youtaking so long?
he saw where I was.
He's like, you said it was gonnatake you five and a half hours.

Katie (52:26):
Listen buddy, if this is

Falyn (52:28):
I know down here and run

Katie (52:30):
Right, exactly.
You know, now that you say, whenyou said Central Park, like New
York City is not big, like,isn't that island only?
I don't know it.
I wanna say three miles.
Like from.
end to end or something.
It's pretty small.
Like what?
How's, what is the route?
Like what are you,

Falyn (52:46):
Yeah.
So you

Katie (52:47):
said you're crossing bridges.
Oh, go ahead.

Falyn (52:49):
yeah, we, there was five bridges.
You start in Staten Islands.
Oh, here.
It's right here.
You start in Staten Islands, yougo over Theano Bridge to Queens.
You're in Queens.
For how many miles were you inQueens for?
Two through six.

(53:10):
Oh, no, sorry.
Brooklyn.
Brooklyn.
You're in Brooklyn.
Two through nine.
What is that?
Nine or 10 you.
Into Brooklyn, and then you gothrough Queens till 15, and then
you go into Manhattan 16.
You go all the way up into theBronx, then down into Harlem,

(53:34):
and then down into ManhattanCentral Park.
You're not in like Manhattan, alot of the race, like you go all
the way up First Avenue from59th Street

Katie (53:45):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (53:46):
and then you like loops around.
You go over two bridges backinto the city and it got dark
because the time change.
So when, by the time I got intoCentral Park on Fifth Avenue and
the city, it was Pitch Black

Katie (54:00):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (54:01):
and it was.

Katie (54:02):
Yeah.
Wait, what time did you start?

Falyn (54:04):
My start time was 1130.

Katie (54:06):
Oh, wow.

Falyn (54:08):
eight, I think was the first eight, seven or eight.
They had three different waves.

Katie (54:14):
Mm-hmm.

Falyn (54:15):
So, cause there's 50,000 people

Katie (54:18):
Hmm.
Yeah, I guess so.
Yeah.
Oh, that's crazy.
That's a crazy, I mean, youknow, most races you are,
everybody's kind of starting atlike 7:00 AM or seven 30 or
whatever.
That's, that's a late start.

Falyn (54:28):
Even though, I mean we were the last wave, like
literally our, the group of usthat stuck together, we were the
last group, like we were all theway in the back of the wave, the
whole marathon, like we were thelast ones to start Some people
walked, they had.

Katie (54:44):
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Can you, they were probablywrapping up around midnight.
Well, listen, I know you gottago.
You got kids to pick up andwhatnot, but I thank you for
your time.
Thank you for coming back andsharing about your experience.
I, I'm just so proud of you.
Truly.
I'm so proud of you.
I've never run a marathon andhonestly, I don't know that I
ever will.
I, but I do lots of greatthings, but I don't know that
running a marathon's ever gonnabe one of those things, So I'm

(55:05):
very proud of you.
I think it's amazing.
Congrat.

Falyn (55:07):
thanks for letting me share with everyone.
Yeah.
If anyone has questions abouthow to train with diabetes or
just in general, feel free toreach out.

Katie (55:17):
Yeah, absolutely.
I'll, I'll put links in the shownotes, like to your social media
pages and stuff where people canfind you.

Falyn (55:23):
All right, awesome.

Katie (55:24):
Thanks, Fallon.

Falyn (55:25):
Thanks Katie.

Katie (55:29):
That's it for our show today, such a treat to talk to
Fallon about her experiencerunning the New York city
marathon.
Seriously, how awesome is that?
Fallon is a very fun follow onsocial media.
So I will leave links in theshow notes so you can find her.
Fallon also mentioned that ifyou have any questions for her
about what it was like to trainfor a marathon with type one, or

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just in general, don't hesitateto reach out and ask.
Again, links in the show notes.
Okay.
That's it just a quick note thatI'm taking the next two weeks
off from the show because it'sChristmas.
So I will be taking some time torest and I hope you are too.
I'm going to spend time withfamily and friends.
And again, I hope that's whatyou're going to be doing as
well.

(56:09):
All right friend.
I will chat with you soon, butuntil then, Stay calm and bolus
on.
Bye.