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! 

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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.