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Set my alarm for 8am today to get up and going early (earlier than normal) to go for a bike ride... when I woke up I had a first thought of "why did I have to decide I was gonna do this?" but shortly after I decided it would be fun. Had oatmeal and then waited a little bit, like 1hr, was out on my bike by 9.20. I usually dont eat anything big before a morning workout, because then I have to take insulin, today I only took 1unit which isnt enough for oatmeal, but I did that on purpose since I knew I was gonna go for a ride which would get my bs even lower. I will admit I had some left over yoghurt candy from last night too :P haha. In the beginning of my ride I was pretty sluggish, but I wanted to get through 40km, so I stuck to it. Eventually it got easier, the best part of the ride was probably the last 10km, I usually get better the further I go, proven by my cooper test yesterday, its very hard for me to speed up quickly. Its kinda weird cause in life I am a pretty speedy person, in the sense that I always want to get things done quick and think of myself as a very efficient person. Anyhow, checked my bs half way, was at 9, before I left it was at 10 which was understandable because by that time the insulin I had taken with bfast had not gotten to its full effect yet either. I kept drinking my energy water even though I knew I started off high because I was excpecting it to drop, since insulin+workout=a quicker bs drop than just insulin without working out. I decided not to keep drinking the energy water as much on the 2nd half of the ride, when I got home I was at 5, I would have wanted to be at like 7, so thats alright. During my ride I kept thinking of what I had learnt at Bosön yesterday; that when you ride you need to try keeping your shoulderblades together, otherwise its easy to get neck and shoulder pain. I always get neck pain, but today I didnt because I kept my shoulderblades together! Sitting here typing this I am noticing that when I type on my computer I do not keep the shoulderblades tight and I start feeling neck pain.. seems to be the explanation to why many people who have deskjobs get back problems. So big advice to anyone, think of keeping your shouldblades tight together more, it helps preventing neck and back pain a lot and helps strengthen your muscles back there! The physical therapy guy that helped me get better from my shoulder injury at Cleveland State gave me exercises where I had to think about putting my shoulder blades together, but I never thought it was better for anything other than my swimming and shoulder injury... but I was wrong!! Learned so many new things yesterday!! EXCITING!!!

 

When I got back from biking my bike was so dirty, so washed it properly, and now its cleaner than its ever been!!! :P Mr. C would be proud! ;)