We added Tennessee to our list of visited states today. On the map, Spruce Pine and Pineola aren’t much more than 25 miles apart, but we took a 44-mile side trip into Tennessee. I chose this particular side trip because part of it was on a well-documented bicycling route called the Roan […]

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 […]

Seventy-seven miles to Crossett, Arkansas today. We got an earlier start than usual — about 8 am — in hopes of avoiding some of the heat. It turned out to be a good and bad day. Good in the sense that most roads were either light in traffic or had a […]

Today is an unexpected rest day in Winfield, Kansas. I went to bed tired, didn’t sleep well and in the morning decided that riding 88 miles today (to Independence, Kansas) might not be in my best interest. We had some errands to run, and since Winfield is a fairly large town, we […]

Today’s ride was 75 miles from Delta, Utah to Milford, Utah. The weather report for today said that snow was likely and 20-25 mph headwinds. The reality was much kinder to us. We had a headwind (10 mph or so) for well over half the ride, but we only had […]