I have enough trouble managing my sugar when I take my daily walk, I can't imagine being a person with diabetes who is also a profressional sports player, or a body builder or even someone who decided to participate in a triathlon.

For some reason, the idea of someone like Doug Burns, who is Mr. Universe, managing type 1 diabetes is easier to accept than someone on a professional sports team. It seems like a professional body builder has more time to stop, test and adjust if need be. Or, maybe I just don't know that much about body building.

I guess it's a time element. Body building seems much less fast paced. I mean, I understand that there's a rhythm to working out and you don't want to break that (geez, I had a rhythm to packing my house and didn't want to break it).

For a professional football player like Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler, being on the field seems a little more precarious. If you start feeling low in the middle of a game, can you call a time out to test or to treat? I don't know much about football, but I know there's only a certain number of time outs you get per half.

Like I said, I know how I manage my sugars when there's a 30-minute walk involved. But a two-hour, intense workout session with the weights? A likely three-hour workout on a football field?  (Talk about a case for a CGMS!) A friend of mine who is a type 1 pumper emailed me yesterday to share her joy in finishing a triathlon. A triathlon!

Kudos to people who can do it, because I know it can be done. But I think, frankly, anything outside of my 30-minute walk scares the bejesus out of me.