Sorry about the brief hiatus. \u00a0I’ve been away and not blogging, on account of living in a field and all that.<\/p>\n
While the North West enjoyed the weather that it’s famous for (i.e. bobbins<\/em>), we headed to Norfolk, to camp within the grounds of Sandringham, where the Royal family spend 10 weeks each year and eat their Christmas dinner together. \u00a0To sum up the week in one sentence, it was sunny; relaxed; idyllic; woody; tasty; splashy; barbecuey; pretty and fun.<\/p>\n As I write, 40 people are featured on the August150 spreadsheet<\/a>. \u00a08 have already finished, another 3 have done more than two-thirds of the miles and 29 people have logged some miles. \u00a0If you want to join in, let me know and I’ll tell you how. \u00a0Basically, I need the email address you use for Google, and you’re in!<\/p>\n Personally, my Norfolk week didn’t go well in August 150 terms. \u00a0We only got one ride out really, aside from a couple of trips to the shop. \u00a0On the day we’d planned a good explore, N1S’s bike inexplicable exploded whilst leaning against a fence. \u00a0On closer inspection, it seems I’d pumped the tyre up too hard and an errant spoke was causing a stress point against the rim. \u00a0When he’d done a little lap around the site, the warmth and pressure had got up and then the tyre simply went “BANG! PFFFFT!<\/strong>” once the bike was rested. \u00a0Grrrr. \u00a0One failed repair and a trip to Halfords later, the bike was ok but our time was gone.<\/p>\n We did get a ride along NCN Route 1 later in the week though. \u00a0It’s gorgeous. \u00a0It got me thinking: We’ve rode along NCN1 now, and I live on NCN66 – that leaves 64 routes. \u00a0Too many. \u00a0So I might look into which routes I could travel to within a day from mine and try to tick a bunch of those off – what d’you think? \u00a0Speaking of canals (I know I wasn’t but NCN66 is along Rochdale Canal a good slug of the way<\/em>), have you seen LouLouK’s blog<\/a> about her ride along the Leeds-Liverpool canal? \u00a0You should – it’s an inspiration to anyone who thinks they might not be able to get some big riding done.<\/p>\n Just a brief note here. \u00a0In the past, I’ve had some crashing hypos whilst on holiday. \u00a0The trouble with Type 1 diabetes is that I tend to dose myself up with the same amount of insulin most days, but on holiday you do loads more exercise by stealth. \u00a0By stealth, I mean that you don’t realise.<\/p>\n Then what happens is that you wake up at night with crazily low blood sugars, doing weird things and amusing\/terrifying your loved ones. \u00a0Well, I’ve found the secret: test more! \u00a0By taking my glucose monitor and simply doing the finger prick tests more often, I was able to avoid any silly hypos this holiday. \u00a0In fact, my only low was on the last day, when packing up took us way past lunchtime. \u00a0A quick Cadbury’s Twirl and I was back on track! \u00a0Sorted \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0Feel better, go longer, be safer, test more.<\/p>\n That’s all for today, save these few photos of our lovely break.<\/p>\n\n\t\tThe #August150 Update<\/h2>\n
Holiday Diabetes<\/h2>\n