Bound to happen when you go out to eat!

So, yesterday on a mall walk, we stopped in at Cheesecake Factory, thinking they have such a varied and extensive menu, but alas what we tried did a number on my blood sugars! I talked about what I had on facebook on my latest post, so I won't repeat myself! 

The number continued today, oh by the way my FBS was 133 that knocked me out of my 13 day streak of blood sugar readings below 127! Now, today, like I said the isht storm continued. My lowest number was 108 not bad, but then we ate out twice and then my numbers really shot up to almost 150! I had not been this high since my diagnosis two months ago! Quelle merd!

So, I promptly turned to my best source of info, the internet! Ended up at no place else other than Healthline. If you don't know Healthline and BezzyT2D.com are connected and regularly give support to T2D people. Bezzy, I read is a UK slang term for bestie and T2D is short for Type 2 Diabetes. Well, I found info on Healthline from a doctor suggesting a walk when your number is sky high! Sky high for me! I had been on a 7 day streak at less than 110! Then I was on a thirteen day streak at less than 127! Now I'm on half a day at 133! Haha! And I thought I had this isht licked and locked-up! 

To complicate things, our weather has been ishtty all week! I was lucky just now, but I'm getting ahead of myself!

Anyway, Healthline has really good information! The doctor suggested I get a walk in before bed. The fact that bed came at 2 AM doesn't change the fact that my blood sugar was high. If I had gone to bed it would just have gotten higher! This way at least I give myself a chance to get an ok nunber in the morning! Sheesh, T2D is not easy to deal with on a daily basis!

I was remiss on telling you about my walk, other than having to pee the whole time I was out there, I did my best, I finished my walk in less than one hour, maybe it was because I had to goo! I wore all my reflective isht, my new gloves, and my old vest! I wore my warmest cold weather sleeveless vest, I already had my knickers on and I threw on my warmest long sleeve tog, I also had my bandito mask on! Past one mile, the cold was no longer an issue! The gloves did their duty! At one point a couple of cars were coming up from behind me at a high rate of speed and when I made my hand face their headlights, I could hear them let off on the gas!

Remember: BezzyT2D.com for Type 2 Diabetes Support! I'll be there too!

Joe Friel: This just in...

So I recently bumped up mileage or kilometraje and I decided to give my body a break. 

For two months almost, I have been working out everyday! One stress. Then last week I bumped up my mileage. Stress number two. Yesterday, on a ride that I was supposed to be lollygagging on I managed to get the same time I had done on the previous day when I was doing multiple ladders, my guess more than five! In other words I was working my ass off! Stress number three! 

Today, crack of dawn, my resting heart rate that had been on a steady decline, jumped up twelve points! Translation, I was beginning to get overtrained! Overtraining is when the body doesn't get enough down time to recover from my daily exercise bouts!

Why Joe Friel, well, I just caught up on a lot of his recent articles yesterday and had it drummed in to me, you slow down to speed up! One has to rest! Working out everyday has a fatigue compounding effect!

In this picture, one I forgot to smile, so my true expression made it to social media. Two, I believe I look tired! When in doubt leave it out. So todays steady state workout is not going to happen!

So, it happened again...Bike Bank

So, it happened again, I passed on the 12th bike in 2 years to my friend Jesus thanks to the generosity of Shari and Larry O'Brien who donated two mountain bikes on Sunday, here a week later Jesus has a bike for his son N. I met Jesus online and then at the BGDB Pink-Out Ride for breast cancer last year! He got a mountain bike, a Trek 6500SLR with quite a few upgrades! 

The Bike Bank, getting friends and family back on their bikes. Give away your bike and give your bike new life! Thank you all for donating one of the twelve bikes in the last two years!

Today I gave away my 11th bike in 2 years! St. Jimmy, famous for sagging for years for the Tuesday Worlds that was more like a crit race than a training ride! He got a mountain bike racer that got a second place at the collegiate level!

 This is the Bike Bank, this bike was donated on Sunday and here on Wednesday the bike has been given to a good home! Give your bike away so that it goes to a good home! (501C3 status in process)

How the Pandemic Saved My Life with Bike Clubs and Speed Appendix

First year of the pandemic I lost 36 pounds when we were home bound! I even won the weight loss competition on my campus! Once we went back to campus so did my bad habits! I had an 8 month plateau that I had no idea what to do to break it. Before that year my heart doctor had suggested I was diabetic! That year I escaped the guillotine! FF to this year, I took 3 months off the bike to move from a 5 bdrm house to a 2 bdrm apartment (still in process but oh so close) and my health went to hell. Mid September the guillotine caught up with me and was diagnosed type 2 diabetic. I was just like everyone else in my family! About this time our current health provider decided I was not to be seen, still working on that one! I, with the help of my bride, have cut all that is bad out and kept all that is good in a new to me strict lifestyle change! Recently I had a 36 hour period where all my blood sugar readings were below 100, I now know that this is exceptionally good! My new low blood sugar reading is 83. Yeehaw! Thx for letting me share!

Large and in charge, still not on diabetic medication, but doing what I can to get to better health with the bike! My scale is packed away I don't know where! My cycling clothes are packed away! This kit is one I found in my bugout bag. I know this one kit is my largest and most versatile! I don't know what I'll do when it gets cold this weekend! I guess I'll freeze my ass like Ralphie does on our group rides with The Street Ratz of San Antonio! 

Appendix

BTW the speed tree for groups in San Antonio are: for beginners: Action Bikes their Sunday Ride the 7 am section from Alamo Heights to the Alamodome and back. The Street Ratz of San Antonio Saturday 7 am ride, and the Greenway Trail Riders. All other groups start at speeds of 14 or 15 mph up. With the Cyclones there is a C group (14 to 16), I wish there were a D group. With Chain Reaction there is a Puppy Pack (15 to 17) and I wish there were another group slower than the Puppy! What's smaller than a puppy?! Fastest group is the Tuesday Night worlds. Speeds up to 25 mph and faster! Then it's a toss up between Action Bikes the 4 am group, the Cyclones, Chainreaction

MTCCSA-Major Taylor, Bike Heaven, and The Wheelmen! All these groups regularly clock rides at 20 mph and faster! Don't go if you can't hang or you'll be riding alone and you'll wake up in a ditch four hours later not knowing what the hell happened! Sorry wheelmen, but your stay together rides are not! I personally have gotten dropped on three occasions. No one's perfect! The Grennway Trail Riders, the Street Ratz, Team Taco, 210 Riders, the 700c Group (famous for city to city rides on the weekends), The SouthSide Wild Boars, the Lobster Crew, the Air Force Cycling Club, the Bike Ninjas, the Crackles, plus some more are truly no rider left behind. Just for fun groups exist as well like the Social Ride (now SAs longest comtinuously running ride since the Bike Mojo succumbed to the Pandemic), the Beers and Gears group and the Low and Slow Riders. Some groups I don't know about, but know they exist: Cannibal Racing, and the San Antonio Mountain Bike group, etc.

There are individuals that will coax you through an Imperial Century like Mark Nobblitt, and Danny Vega.