Today's Tracking When Not Obsured by the Hills
Jacque and I had a bright idea for today: Take off earlier than usual and ride to a favorite eatery and do breakfast "out" as a reward for riding the bike.
We might have had a shorter ride had we looked up the hours for the few local restaurants in our area, but one of our favorite places is Katrinah's East Mountain Grill just north of Edgewood at the corner of Dinkle Road and NM State Road 344, and we've ridden to Edgewood fearlessly many times before, so that was our choice without much advance thought involved.
So, I set my insulin pump for 10% of normal basal rate, ate no breakfast since we were going "out" for breakfast, and took off.
Trouble is, this distance from our house to this restaurant is slightly over 11 miles, with several stiff hill climbs involved. I got so low on blood glucose we had to stop more than twice so I could check my blood and eat snacks to get my available energy back up. And, since it takes at least 2 hours to get there on a bike, I realize now I should have eaten breakfast BEFORE such a ride and called it Brunch or Lunch when we finally rode up to our diner.
We love taking such times for longer rides, but we haven't done such rides in recent weeks, and our muscles certainly "talked" to us doing 20-mile rides in 2 subsequent days. About halfway there we discussed giving up and turning back to get the dinosaur-powered vehicle and go get breakfast with THAT mode of transport. However, since we both really need decent exercise, after another short rest break, we trudged onward. By the time we got to breakfast, we were low on water and I forgot to ask the restaurant to refill our bottles. Which led to a fairly low water situation by the time we got home.
Water is one of the heaviest things we have to carry, but I sure wished we had brought another bottle today... or better yet, remembered to have mine refilled at the restaurant.
It seemed to take forever but it was only slightly over 2 hours transit time. Very tired and very hungry by the time we got there but they had a nice shade tree on the corner of the restaurant where we parked the trike and the girls. The doggies promptly went to sleep, waking only every few minutes when new customers walked by them and exclaimed at their exquisite cuteness and accepted sweet talk, pettings, and even a freshening of the water bowl by one couple coming into the cafe. US? We were promptly served enchiladas and huevos rancheros and wolfed them down. Well, at least I wolfed.... Jacque couldn't eat all her plate but I had no trouble at all snarfing mine. Then on the way home... I had to eat a couple more snacks to keep the blood glucose up to snuff. Killer hills on the way back dampened our enthusiasm, and one hill in particular took 3 breaks every hundred feet or so to accomplish. In the past we've been able to make the same hill in one effort but it was cooler last time we tried.... and probably a bit more in shape and used to longer rides.
Ride Started: 8:45 AM Ride Ended: 2:36 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.8 Ending Voltage: 13.1
Lowest Temp 75 F Highest Temp: 87 F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 22.84
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
3.9 MPH 5.9 MPH 32.7 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
5 hours 48 mins 3 hours 53 mins 1 hour 54 minutes
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