A week in my life as a type one Diabetic
With my job, I can be away a fair bit as I cover the entire South from Yaxley down to Exeter. In total, I look after 11 sites, Health and Safety. With being diabetic this makes life a little harder as I have a lot more to plan for when I am away, I have to ensure that I have plenty of diabetic supplies, Needles, Tester kit, Insulin and I have to ensure that I can keep the spare insulin cold so have to carry an electric cool box.
This week I have been away, starting on Tuesday morning with a 5 hour drive down to Exeter with no real sleep as my levels kept going low in the night so ended getting up at 02:30 and leaving the house by 03:45. I spent two days completing the site H&S inspection in the Exeter site, and then yesterday drove to Newport to do the same.One of the many good things about my job is that I can take my bike and get some training done on new roads, where I live is flat but most of the time pretty windy in Exeter and Newport it is bloody hilly. I got out on the bike in Exeter, doing 27 miles and 2372ft of climbing, which in that short amount of riding is pretty hard for me as I am still a little over my best riding weight. As I was in Newport for a couple of nights I managed to fit in a couple of rides, again 27 miles for both and 1677ft for both rides.Throughout all 3 rides my levels stayed steady creeping up a little as I was pushing pretty hard especially up some of the steep hills.
Friday is a rest day and I am driving home and looking forward to seeing the wife and kids, and seeing what Carla has done to the house in my absence as she has been decorating.I will also be able to start adding deadlifts and weighted squats to my training as my Olympic Barbell was delivered while I have been away so looking forward to seeing the strength gains that is going to bring to my cycling. A couple of hard sessions have been planned for the weekend as I am not racing. So it will be interesting to see how I get on after some hard days in the hills.
Also got a new Athletes Plant based cook book to read as I really need to start adding a few more healthy options to my diet as currently I live off of Whole wheat pasta Beans roasted veg and sweet potato.Things seem to be better this week with controlling my levels even though I am away from home and have done a bit of training which is really good but it does seem to change weekly and sometimes daily. The other thing that I have noticed lately is that I could eat something one day and my levels not spike, then eat the same food the following day, and my levels fly up, which can be frustrating. As it would be nice to be able to find foods that help with training and are consistent in how they affect my levels, but this is just one of the many challenges that I will have to conquer to achieve my goals.
As ever set huge goals and keep trying and never give up as the only way you ever truly fail is if you give up.