Archive for the 'Exercise' Category

The Dream Tour, Day 3: Another snowy day in paradise

Monday, March 20th, 2006

Here’s the profile of today’s ride: wind and sun, wind and rain, snow, then snow and howling wind. Rinse and repeat three times.

This is a video clip during my bicycle ride on March 20, 2006 which is the first day of spring, but you would hardly know it from the video.&nbsp

We had such a […]

Dream Tour Preparation Stress

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

I received an email from someone this morning that reminded me to write about something that has been on my mind for the last week or so: the stress of the last minute preparations for The Dream Tour.
It was last Tuesday that I woke up with blood sugar of 296. About 200 points […]

Major league pitcher wears insulin pump

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

A friend of mine forwarded this article from Sports Illustrated. The article appeared about a year ago. It’s about Jason Johnson, who’s an pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. He also wears an insulin pump.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/players/02/01/body0207/

Glucose Testing While Bicycle Riding

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

I was out on another training ride today. Sixty-five miles on a sunny, but rather cold day — the high was 48 but that happened before I was even out on the bike. It was a four hour ride and twice during the ride I stopped to test my blood glucose.  First one was […]

Type 1 Diabetes and Sports Participation

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

I found this great, and very detailed, article about sports participation for people with type 1 diabetes:
http://www.physsportsmed.com/issues/2000/12_00/draznin.htm