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Gary Scheiner says

Excellent question.  Even a young person can burn large amounts of glucose during exercise.  The more intense the exercise, the more rapid the glucose-burning.  Lowering the basal by a few tenths of a unit per hour (or suspending or disconnecting) does not do nearly enough to compensate for the amount of glucose being utilized, thus the need to consume extra carbohydrate.

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