Diabetes Game- Mild Confusion

Howdy From Hotlanta,

The end of the year is near, which will bring to close a great one on so many levels. For the time being things are slow, which is nice, but also boredom can set in. I am looking forward to that, as have had none of it in a long, long time.

So last week. Got to spend time with my brother Jack driving down to see mom for Xmas. It was really, really nice to have the family back together!!!

As for riding, 3hrs Tuesday, felt really tired. 3hrs Wednesday, felt good for 1hr, then really tired for 2.5 hours. Tired the rest of the day, tired all day xmas. It was kind of strange. So I took 2 days, where I just rode 1 hour to try and recover. Friday's 1 hour day was good. I have still been tinkering with this food and ride thing. I had gone up to 9 units of Lantus at night, which had been the highest in some time.
Saturday AM woke up for the WBL, winterbikeleague.com in Athens GA. I ate a big breakfast doing 2 units of Apidra (www.Apidra.com please check out, lots of cool new video of TT1 on the site,) which I rarely do before rides. Blood sugar started going up, and up, and up.... I usually like to sit in for the first part of these rides, and let the body warm up. But since the trend was going up on my FreeStyle Navigator kept going up, I decided to pull. I went to thr front with my buddy David Crowe, who has been punishing me for 8 solid years. Can't really believe I have been doing the WBL's for 8 years now... Lots of great memories of fun, suffering, more fun, and more suffering. So we pull for sometime which levels me off at 290. I am drinking water, and not eating. Then I slowly start coming down, and about 2 hours into the ride, I am at 240. At the store I drink a diet coke, diet red bull, and some water. Leave the store and get to the front with my boy Murph Dog (John Murphy) and he laughs at me as I pull. Pull for a while, get back in, then pull again, then sit, then pull... Oh yea, all this time on the front, so was John... He is flying right now, and prolly gonna impress some folks this year.
Pretty tired by the end of the ride, but so was everyone. Ate some good food, and saw Morgan Patton's new pad in Athens. She will like the town, as she can hang out/ride with people her age.

So the ride and food... 4 hours, pushed pretty hard, and 0 calories intake. Finished the ride at 190. So what am I thinking? I need more basal, and it would be better to eat. I do my 2nd dose of Lantus to 4 units to make it 13 total for the day, along with 6 units of Apidra to eat. Ate some food, stayed up there, and then did another 3 units in anticipation of a 2nd meal. We head to the GRit, no blous, but ate a salad, and some pita bread. Drive home, not much food, and then had 2 more salads, with Filet!!
9 units Lantus that night. Wake up high at 150 or so, bolus 2.5 units, eat oatmeal, go straight up, and then hit 180 before coming down. Ate 50gms of carbs for 3 hr ride, 6 unit bolus after, and 150gms carbs, 40 protein. Blood sugar on ride was 120-180, which was better. I decided I am going back to once a day Lantus, to test it out. To make the switch, I was doing a lot fo 1 unit boluses to reverse the upward trend. Did Yoga last night, and at 8:30 did 13 units of lantus, ate a bar, and went to bed. This am, woke up at 150, so I am going to do 14 units tonight.

Not sure what my body is burning for fuel on the rides right now, but it is not carbs. I am curious if i have gone ketonic on the rides, and thus would be burning fat. Does it take 4 weeks of exercise for the non-diabetic to do this too??? Studies to come.

Happy NEW YEAR! Time to make next year the best year ever! What are your goals? I have a few...
Ciao

Philpott
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