Diabetes Game- New twist, and camp

Howdy from Buellton CA!

I hope everyone is doing well. This has been a crazy week. Thursday was a photo shoot for Team Type 1 bike sponsor, Orbea, with Joe. The ad will be out in Road Magazine next week. It rocked.   This was a  4 a.m. wake up, 4 airline  flights that day, and back to hotel by 10 p.m. Friday.   The Team Type 1, Lantus/Apidra video/photo  shoot began that day  which meant a 6 a.m. wake up  for the team.  Saturday through Monday had us setting our alarms  to  4:45 a.m. to get ready for more video/photography work. 

I have  calculated that I am now about 13 hours behind on sleep. These shoots comprised of a  wake up alarm, eating  breakfast, riding around, sitting  around, and  smiling a lot. Great people to work with, but it took a toll on me. By Monday night, I was "fried."   I had to put toothpicks in my eyes to keep them open. We had a great meet the team, hosted by the ADA Tour de Cure.  I saw 140 people commit to doing a Tour de Cure ride in 2009. Team Type 1 will be present at 60 rides!!!

These days of video and photography shoots ended up being "rest days"  on my body, which threw my  metabolism off. I admit, I was very tired physically from training going into camp. I had done a solid 12 days block of hard long rides. I was pretty set on 15 units of Lantus, and then a lot of adjustments through the days. I was able to ride  3 days, each 3 hour rides. All of the sudden, I became SUPER sensitive to insulin.   I went through one day only doing 2 units of Apidra, and eating lots of food.  I dropped to 14 units of Lantus for the first time in a long time, and had low blood sugars still in the a.m. 

This was all fine and dandy until yesterday. 2 units of Apidra for breakfast, and 150gms of carbs. I was still going low.  I ate  another 75 carbs before the start of the ride, and then 75 in first 45 minutes. Blood sugar never went above 110 on the ride. I was good on the easy/moderate parts, and even some of the hard bits, but when it went real hard I was weak. I was also watching Ken Hanson, a non diabetic, who was using a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM). He sat at 130-140 blood sugar reading  for most of the ride. Went a good period without any food, then a long climb, and he dropped to 80. Then he drank a Sprite, and went on a long hard climb, and he shot up to 161.  He maintained 160 for some time after the climb, until a hard rotation, where he dropped to 130.   He ate a ton of carbs post ride, and he, a non diabetic, actually shot up to 270 on the CGM.

We have 5 others without diabetes using CGM during camp, and hope to have more exciting data for you soon. I have been wanting to conduct this study for 2 years now, and Dr. Howard Zisser was kind enough to make it happen!

I have five and 1/2  hours today, climbing Mt Fig, which will take about an hour. Then some sprint/paceline work.  It is going to be a hard day.

Also, almost forgot, I cut basal to 13 units of Lantus last night, went high in night.  I was down to 100 after breakfast. I ate a bit much, and am now sitting at 220. I want a direct comparison of my performance yesterday will a blood sugar 50 points higher. News to tell tomorrow.

Thanks for reading!  Have a great day.

Phil
TeamType1.org