A couple people have asked me why I reduce the basal rate on my insulin pump when I exercise.
I thought I better write a few paragraphs on the subject to help clarify.
A basal rate is the amount of insulin delivered during a single day (see also this definition). With my basal rates […]

I only rode 40 miles today. It was to Winterville, a small town about five miles northeast of Athens, Georgia. I kind of felt like the previous three rides — all 80+ miles — left me a bit tired. One rest day didn’t seem enough, but I’m also feeling some pressure to […]

Today, we took a rest day. We went downtown Madison and went on a walking tour of the historic downtown district. As I mentioned in yesterday’s entry, Madison is known as one of the few towns in Georgia that escaped extensive damage by the Union Army during the Civil War. This […]

Getting into Macon yesterday was easy; getting through Macon in the early morning commuter traffic turned out to be very difficult.
After an hour and a half of zig-zagging through suburban Macon, I finally found myself on a road headed out of town that was tolerable traffic-wise. To get there, I had taken sidewalks, crosswalks, […]

Everyday, I update the Dream Tour Location and the Dream Tour Next Stop information on the home page of www.thedreamtour.org. Well, yesterday it said that we’re headed for Forsyth today. Unfortunately, I was a bit optimistic on the routing. In reality, Forsyth ended up being close to a hundred miles from Plains. […]