What’s this ringing I keep hearing in my ear?. #AgingAintForChumps
My planned training ride on Saturday with the local red team for Philadelphia’s Tour de Cure was cancelled. So instead, the Captain and I drove to Baltimore so I could ride with my favorite daughter (before you call the parent police, I only have 1 daughter…LOL). We did a 12 mile ride around Loch Raven Reservoir in Baltimore. The route she mapped out had a cat 5 climb that really had me worried because this was my first ride of the year, well second ride if I counted the 5 mile ride I did the day before. In any case, my goal was to climb the hill without getting off and pushing my bike. I stopped a couple of times on the climb, but I made it to the top pedaling!!!
I enjoyed spending this time with my favorite daughter MUCH better than I would have on a training ride. Afterwards, the Captain hooked us up with salmon croquettes… yummy!! Yeah I know, but about 2 hours after eating my glucose was only 114 mg/DL (ADA recommends levels less than 180 mg/dL, one to two hours after meals). So all is STILL good in diabetes land!!
[A Healthier Michigan] Got diabetes? Grab a bike. In fact, according to some recent analysis of research from a fellow weight-loss success story, cycling may be more beneficial to your A1C (if you are a diabetic) than some of the more popular pills.
Bill Hart-Davidson is a professor at Michigan State University. His story is very familiar to my own. Struggling with his weight, he was diagnosed with pre-diabetes in 2006. Being a researcher at heart, he dug into the literature and found that diabetes is largely treatable with lifestyle changes, especially when it’s caught early before a person has progressed to the full-blown form of the disease. Read the entire A Healthier Michigan article.
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