Daily Total: 36.44 Ride Hours: 04:22

Insulin Breakdown:
Meal: 10.30u
Corr: 4.90u
Basal: 21.24u

Daily Carb Intake Bolused For: 169g

Up early to check the weather for the morning MTB ride. Wanted to get a solid 6 hours today, but got started a little late as the weather was making up its mind.

Set my pump down to a 55% reduction at 8:10, an headed over to the UNC Wellness Center with the HiFi on the car. I was about 1 block away from my house, and it started to pour. Not rain. Pour.

Gave it a couple of minutes, and it didn't seem like it was going to let up. Got out of the car in the mini-monsoon and got saddled up. Rolled out of the parking lot right at 09:00. Figured I could hit the wet weather dirt road/hill repeat/greenway loop for a while.

It was surprisingly cold while getting up to operating temperature. About 10 minutes into the ride I got a pleasant surprise of seeing my close friend Tracy running with her running group. Not only was it awesome to see her, but it really gave me an uplift since I wasn't the only one training in this weather. :)

About an hour in I felt like I was going a little low. I didn't have my monitor with me (raining WAY too hard), I just went ahead and lowered my basal rate to a 80% reduction to help me recover.

From that point on the ride was great and I felt pretty good, giving the hot road cycling work yesterday. Great way to end the weekend and get ready for a recovery week for next weekends 12 hour.

Vertical Distance: 1090.00 yd
Max HR: 178 BPM
Avg HR: 145 BPM
Calories: 4,087 kCal

I did set a night time post ride temp basal of 75% for 6 hours. Didn't feel to hungry, so I am a little concerned with possibly going low over night. Hopefully the temp rate will help to avoid that.

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Daily Total: 43.95 Ride Hours: 04:41

Insulin Breakdown:
Meal: 15.25u
Corr: 4.70u
Basal: 24.00u

Daily Carb Intake Bolused For: 282g

Up early today to get out the door by 07:00 in order to make the Firecracker 100 08:00 start time. Kirsten and I left home right on time, and even had time to get some coffee on the way. I set my pump to a temp basal rate of a 55% reduction at 07:07 in preperation for the ride.

The firecracker is a MS training ride which has two route options of either 100k or 50k. About 700 cyclists take part, and it is great way to add a social ride to the holiday weekend.







Weather was picture perfect at ride start time. Just into the low 70s and fairly low humidity.

The start was pretty crazy, as there where so many riders of all different ability levels. I saw about 4 or 5 people fall in their clipless pedals right there before the start. Truthfully, I just wanted to get through the day with getting knocked over. :) We did.

Had a great time with Kirsten in the saddle for just short of 5 hours. The biggest laugh of the day was about 15 miles in. I had been pulling a group of 15 riders at a good clip for about 5 miles when we realized we missed a turn. 5 miles back. It was awesome! Kirsten and I just looked at each and laughed at all the other riders who where just whinning about the 10 miles of extra riding. I was glad to be out on my bike and riding with my wife. I could not careless if we did an extra 25 miles. :)

The rest of the ride went really well, and we are sure we will be back to do this ride again next year if possible.

Vertical Distance: 687.00 yd
Max HR: 185 BPM
Avg HR: 154 BPM
Calories: 3,579 kCal

After we got home, we just hung out for a while and then got readyu to go to Solopalooza. What is it you might ask? Well, its an annual tradition now that celebrates the birthday of two people who live on Solo Court. Add 100 friends, music, 600 crabs and beer and you get the idea. A great time for some wonderful people celebrating their birthdays!

I set a temp post ride night time basal rate of 70% of normal for 6 hours when I went to bed. Hopefully I can get another quality day in tomorrow before the rain comes in.

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Daily Total: 42.64 Ride Hours: 00:00

Insulin Breakdown:
Meal: 15.75u
Corr: 0.00u
Basal: 26.89u

Daily Carb Intake Bolused For: 258g

Saw this new Nike commercial today, and it needs no explanation. If you know or follow me and the work we do via Type1Rider, you will understand when I say I couldn't even finish it the first time as it brought me to tears.

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Daily Total: 39.24 Ride Hours: 02:08

Insulin Breakdown:
Meal: 12.65u
Corr: 2.85u
Basal: 23.74u

Daily Carb Intake Bolused For: 211g

After work I was able to get out right away for a ride on the Superfly SS. I set my pump down as I was leaving work near 17:00, and left the UNC Wellness Center at 18:06.

Headed over to the Carolina North Trail system, and took a little side trip through UNC Campus. I road by the Morehead Planetarium to take a look at the giant sundial they have out front. Pretty cool:






It was a great ride and a great day! Its awesome when it only gets dark around 21:00. Long rides with no lights.

Vertical Distance: 300.00 yd
Max HR: 183 BPM
Avg HR: 142 BPM
Calories: 1,426 kCal

I set the pump back to a normal basal rate as I was rolling back to the Wellness Center at 20:00.

I did set a post ride bedtime bolus tonight.

July starts tomorrow, and with it comes the Tour and the next race in the DirtySpokes endurance series. I am ready for BOTH! :)

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Daily Total: 40.88 Ride Hours: 01:59

Insulin Breakdown:
Meal: 12.20u
Corr: 3.20u
Basal: 25.48u

Daily Carb Intake Bolused For: 183g

After a pretty busy weekend it was cool to try and settle down into a normal work week. Right.

After work I was able to get out on the road bike and join a group on their Monday recovery ride. I missed their start by about 20 minutes, so I tried to calculate an "intercept".

So after about 35 or 4o minutes of riding by myself, listening to my iPod I started to think I should have grabbed my mountain bike and went to the trails instead. I was wondering this ALOUD, when I realized their was a guy right behind me. He was wearing a small messenger bag, and was smiling as he had heard me ranting for about 3 or 4 minutes.

I shut the iPod off, and we chatted for a bit. He recognized the kit, and asked me some questions about diabetes and cycling and what it takes to do the races I do. I asked about what he does, and he is a grad student at UNC and was commuting home to Hillsborough. He is studying about bending and joining molecules via magnetism. Pretty deep, deep stuff.

We chatted for about 20 minutes until I managed to catch the group I was originally planning on joining.

It was cool ride out to them though. Two people, living on completely different paths, able to enjoy a ride in the country. Cycling is just so dang cool.


Vertical Distance: 320.00 m
Max HR: 177 BPM
Avg HR: 146 BPM
Calories: 1,382 kCal

No bed time post ride basal set tonight. To light of ride day.

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On the way home from the game we were treated to a wonderful dinner in
honor of my sister in law Caroline's birthday. It was fabulous!!!

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I got home just in time to grab a shower and head with the family to the Team USA vs Team Canada baseball game at the Durham Bulls ballpark. Kirsten sang the national athems - yes both of them. We hung out for a bit with family and friends before going over to the birthday celebration.

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