Ride ride ride... Diabetes game is back

Howdy,

How is everyone? I appreciate the comments on my last post. We shall see what gets done. In regards to where the money may come from, we now have $14b not going to automakers, so why not make some good of it?? J/k

Training seems to be back on track. I have not done anything too crazy, but spend about 30 minutes every am doing exercises, then 2-3 hours on the bike, and 1-1.5hrs of yoga 3x a week. This has all really helped, as I am feeling smooth on the bike, and using muscles I didn't know existed... I have tried to stay ahead of the curve in the insulin drop, which has been good and bad. The good being, I have 0% below target for what is now 2 weeks of training. The bad being that blood sugars will run between 130-150 at night. I have cut my morning dose of Lantus to 3 units, and my PM dose is now 8 units of Lantus. I did do a 4.5 hour 87 mile WBL yesterday. It seems if I have 12 units of basal while riding, no matter what I start at, blood sugar will trend down, and I have to eat A LOT on the bike. Yesterday for example. I had eating the legendary Waffle House breakfast of a pecan waffle, grits, and 2 eggs. Did 3 units of Apidra at 8am, for this carb stacked breakfast, and from 8:30 to 10, I had a slow rise in blood sugar to 177 by the time I got on the bike. Road for 15 minutes to the start, and hung out for a few minutes. Look at my Navigator to see 128 with an arrow straight down. Banana, Dex4, and 500 calories of bars in the first 30 minutes of the ride to stop the drop and settle around 90. This is where I stayed. I continued eating appx 80gms carbs+/hr for the ride. At the store stop, I drank a coke, had a snickers, and then another snickers 20 minutes later. Stayed between 85-100... I did most of this group ride with 100 or so people talking to my buddy Steve Sevner. Sevy was one of the best back in the day, and is coming back to do an ironman. He gave me a lot of great advice for when the going gets tough in the races, and help me stay strong between the ears. Going to put that into use today as well.

Now those blood sugars are not all bad. The ride was not that hard, so I didn't need BS to be higher, and learning to train at that level, and push at that blood sugar will be good practice for if I do go low during a race, which is bound to happen at some point in time. But it is not where I want to be. Today comes a new test. I am going to skip my Lantus dose this morning. Which means I will have 8 units of basal on board, effectively giving a temp basal. My goal is that after I eat my 80 gms of carbs for breakfast with no insulin, and head out on the bike that I will get up to 220 or so, and proceed a slow drop to the 150's, where I will snack, but more along the lines of 20-40gms of carbs/hour. This ride will be similar to yesterday, with a little more time spent at the top end.

Stay tuned for the experiment results. New lessons every day, and always trying to get better. Real goal here is to see exactly how much basal I need, so that when race season comes, it is dialed in 100%!

Thanks for reading. Have a great day.

Phil