cycling with T1D

Cycling with Type-1 Diabetes: My Road to Mallorca Begins

I’m going to Mallorca. This is the first time I’ve announced this to the broader world, and I’m pretty excited. Almost two months ago I booked my spot in the 2027 Girls Get Strong Cycling Camp. I’d been eyeing this all-women’s camp for about 2 or 3 years now, and I finally hit the button. It’s a seven-day adventure, with five days of cycling, anywhere from 60-100 km per day, all throughout Mallorca, Spain. I’m excited. I’m nervous. The distances don’t worry me. But the sometimes unpredictability of my Dear Diabetes does. Good thing I’ve got more than a year to train both my legs and my T1D. I’m intending to blog my way through; I hope you’ll join me for the reading journey. And, if you’re navigating cycling with type-1 diabetes yourself, I hope sharing both the victories and challenges along the way will be helpful 🙂 For the […]

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Sport with T1D trial and error efforts continue

Because sometimes, with type 1 diabetes, you’ve just got to keep on trying until you find a recipe that works for you. Hi friends!! It’s been awhile since I last posted. Life has been crazy busy, but I’m back now. Hopefully, for a good time and a long time 😉 Preach the trial and error As some of you may recall, I am a strong preacher of trial and error when it comes to individualizing diabetes care, and this goes for my T1D care too! So let’s talk sport and T1D trial and error. Every Saturday my favourite cycling chick and I go for a ride. For years, I have kept my T1D strategies similar to my running strategies: Get up 3-4 hours before the ride Eat breakfast with a reduced bolus Monitor blood sugars closely before the ride, and input a temporary basal anywhere from 60-90 minutes before Honestly,

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A female cyclist pedals up a steep hill with a vineyard next to her

Fondo update: struggles of cycling with T1D

Cycling with T1D presented me with quite a few challenges this past week. Even though I have a nutrition degree, have read extensive amounts of T1D research, and have over 30 years personal experience with type-1 diabetes, I still sometimes completely mess it all up. I am not perfect with my T1D. It’s not possible for anyone to be perfect with type-1 diabetes. And for me, “My Own Private Fondo” is a clear example of just how imperfect I can sometimes be. The fondo that was not meant to be Me and my T1D were supposed to ride the Okanagan Gran Fondo in Penticton, BC last week. I was supposed to join thousands of other cyclists as they rode up the hillsides of BC’s most prolific vineyards, and along the lakeshore of Lake Okanagan, home of the Ogopogo, traversing multiple sun-weathered communities. It was supposed to be 121 km of

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