Monday's Very Short Tracking
I was getting sleepy this afternoon, so even though it was getting too late, I determined to go for a short ride at least. Hopefully it would get my blood circulating and wake me up.
Wake me up it did, indeed. It was quite cold and windy all day today, so I wore my long sleeve windbreaker and tucked my pants legs into the tops of my wool socks to keep the pants out of the sprocket and chain grease, thus not needing sun-block.
I was Shocked, Shocked, by the stiffness of the wind. Not only was it cold but it was coming FROM the East, when normally winds blow from the West.
I only made it a couple miles before I decided I'd had enough cold exercise for the day. Not only that, but the steady stream of home-bound traffic was a bit much.
Ride Started: 3:59 PM Ride Ended: 4:14 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.0 Ending Voltage: 12.9 Lowest: 12.9
Beginning Blood Glucose: 129 Ending BG: 121
Lowest Temp 46F Highest Temp: 50F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 2.54
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
7.0 MPH 8.4 MPH 23.2 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
21 minutes 18 minutes 3 minutes
Monday, October 30, 2017
It's Bosque Friday
Bosque Tracking
We started our usual Friday Bosque ride a bit late. We parked the Exploder and trailer and started rolling after 2 PM.
The weather has been cooling since the onset of fall and it was noticeable today. Normally, riding this part of the afternoon would result in a very warm or overheated ride. Not so this time. It was a bit on the cool side but just enough so that made for comfortable riding.
We again quickly dropped off the paved road and cruised around the packed gravel trails winding close to the Rio Grande and largely in the shade and shelter of the cottonwoods of the Bosque.
We tried following some of the foot-paths but soon found ourselves unable to make some of the sharp turns between stumps, rocks, and trees. We crab-backed the trike and turned around and got back on the wider and smoother red-gravel trail and enjoyed the rest of the ride more better.
We ran out of time and did not want to be riding after dark, so we missed out on our usual detour down Mountain Road to Old Town for a break and a treat.
The fall colors were spectacular as well amongst the varieties of trees in the area.
Our doggies seem to be getting slightly more accustomed to encountering other people and their dogs, at least in the Bosque. They got less excited with several strange-dog encounters and didn't bark at all during several other encounters. We'll see how this pans out....
Ride Started: 2:11 PM Ride Ended: 4:50 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.2 Ending Voltage: 13.1 Lowest: 12.8
Beginning Blood Glucose: 165 Lowest BG mid-ride: 67 Ending BG: 36 (Ouch)
Lowest Temp 63F Highest Temp: 71F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 10.6
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
4.0 MPH 5.8 MPH 14.9 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
2 hours 40 mins 1 hour 49 mins 50 minutes
We started our usual Friday Bosque ride a bit late. We parked the Exploder and trailer and started rolling after 2 PM.
The weather has been cooling since the onset of fall and it was noticeable today. Normally, riding this part of the afternoon would result in a very warm or overheated ride. Not so this time. It was a bit on the cool side but just enough so that made for comfortable riding.
We again quickly dropped off the paved road and cruised around the packed gravel trails winding close to the Rio Grande and largely in the shade and shelter of the cottonwoods of the Bosque.
We tried following some of the foot-paths but soon found ourselves unable to make some of the sharp turns between stumps, rocks, and trees. We crab-backed the trike and turned around and got back on the wider and smoother red-gravel trail and enjoyed the rest of the ride more better.
We ran out of time and did not want to be riding after dark, so we missed out on our usual detour down Mountain Road to Old Town for a break and a treat.
The fall colors were spectacular as well amongst the varieties of trees in the area.
Our doggies seem to be getting slightly more accustomed to encountering other people and their dogs, at least in the Bosque. They got less excited with several strange-dog encounters and didn't bark at all during several other encounters. We'll see how this pans out....
Ride Started: 2:11 PM Ride Ended: 4:50 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.2 Ending Voltage: 13.1 Lowest: 12.8
Beginning Blood Glucose: 165 Lowest BG mid-ride: 67 Ending BG: 36 (Ouch)
Lowest Temp 63F Highest Temp: 71F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 10.6
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
4.0 MPH 5.8 MPH 14.9 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
2 hours 40 mins 1 hour 49 mins 50 minutes
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Downhill in a Headwind
Tracking via GPS, APRS, and Ham Radio
Jacque and I have Temple duties in Albuquerque today, but I wanted to get in a few miles beforehand.
The day was bright and sunny but it got rather windy in short order.
No real problem, but even on the recumbent with the windscreen, it slows me down. Once or twice, the wind was so stiff I had to pedal to maintain speed going down my normally-high-speed hills.
But Hey, that's cycling, right?
Jacque and I have Temple duties in Albuquerque today, but I wanted to get in a few miles beforehand.
The day was bright and sunny but it got rather windy in short order.
No real problem, but even on the recumbent with the windscreen, it slows me down. Once or twice, the wind was so stiff I had to pedal to maintain speed going down my normally-high-speed hills.
But Hey, that's cycling, right?
Ride Started: 10:37 AM Ride Ended: 12:01 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.8 Ending Voltage: 13.0 Lowest: 12.9
Beginning Blood Glucose: 125 Lowest BG mid-ride: 67 Ending BG: 77
Lowest Temp 61F Highest Temp: 71F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 9.31
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
6.7 MPH 8.0 MPH 33.6 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
1 hour 22 mins 1 hour 10 mins 12 minutes
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.8 Ending Voltage: 13.0 Lowest: 12.9
Beginning Blood Glucose: 125 Lowest BG mid-ride: 67 Ending BG: 77
Lowest Temp 61F Highest Temp: 71F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 9.31
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
6.7 MPH 8.0 MPH 33.6 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
1 hour 22 mins 1 hour 10 mins 12 minutes
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Been Riding Regularly... Once a Week or So
Today's Round-the-Canyon Tracking
I haven't gotten off my butt and ridden since last Tuesday, I see. I've been busy, the weather has messed up a couple days, we had a funeral to attend on Saturday, and other weak excuses.
I was all riled up to ride yesterday, Monday, but wound up hauling a load of electronics junk to Albuquerque, afterwards we went to a movie for Family Home Evening, and I ran outa time.
But, Today, with Jacque's encouragement, I saddled up and rode around while she drove to town to pick up sewing machines.
It was close to noon when I got going, but it was still nippy outside and it made for good riding weather.
It was 33 degrees when we awoke this morning, and even though it was a sunny day, it has been cool all day. It won't be long before I dig out the serious cold weather gear: Insulated gloves, polar fleece skull cap, fade mask, etc. The only outer garments I ever wear in even freezing weather in the years I've been riding are lightweight shirts and windbreakers. Anything with real insulation quickly overheats me and causes sweating, which wets the clothing and then REALLY gets cold. Thus the cyclists habit of adding and peeling layers as we approach hills etc: Zipping on the windbreaker when topping a hill to stay warm while zooming downhill, and peeling it off when climbing such hills.
I like to use errands for cycling excuses, and I recently found a users manual for a drill press I'd sold a couple months ago to a neighbor and Church friend. She and her hubby live about 8 miles from our home, so I decided to hand deliver the manual ... on the Catrike .
It's always frustrating to navigate terrible stretches of pavement, and Mountain Valley Road filled that bill this time. Cracks that barely register in a car with more weight and larger wheels make a severe stress and pounding on a bike or trike. But hey, I survived, and after only a couple miles of that nonsense, I was on Old Route 66 which, for the section I ride regularly, has new pavement and a lovely wide shoulder without too much shoulder garbage scattered along it.
Riding a recumbent trike, situated so close to the ground, it is easy to spot debris and also to slow down or even stop to pick up detritus and throw it out of the road. Just a few hundred yards past the Mountain Valley / Route 66 junction, there were several large pieces of lumber lying in my way on the shoulder, and I picked them up and heaved them completely off the roadway. If I had been in my regular dinosaur-powered vehicle, I would likely have taken such wood pieces home to put through the wood stove. Then again, I may never have spotted them at 60 MPH.
After a few miles I was getting woozy and found my blood glucose (BG) was 120 and falling, so I ate one of my emergency cookies and rode onward. Another few miles and I distinctly heard the telltale bleep-bleep of my insulin pump complaining it had run out of insulin. This had a deleterious effect on my BG since it was over 200 when I got home. So at present, after refilling the pump and plugging it into a new section of my belly fat, it's Diet Root Beer until the blood glucose gets down where it belongs.
Ride Started: 11:15 AM Ride Ended: 2:52 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.8 Ending Voltage: 12.9 Lowest: 12.9
Beginning Blood Glucose: 225 Lowest BG mid-ride: 120 Ending BG Reading: 218
Lowest Temp 53F Highest Temp: 71F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 19.41
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
5.5 MPH 7.1 MPH 32.3 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
3 hours 32 mins 2 hours 43 mins 48 minutes
I haven't gotten off my butt and ridden since last Tuesday, I see. I've been busy, the weather has messed up a couple days, we had a funeral to attend on Saturday, and other weak excuses.
I was all riled up to ride yesterday, Monday, but wound up hauling a load of electronics junk to Albuquerque, afterwards we went to a movie for Family Home Evening, and I ran outa time.
But, Today, with Jacque's encouragement, I saddled up and rode around while she drove to town to pick up sewing machines.
It was close to noon when I got going, but it was still nippy outside and it made for good riding weather.
It was 33 degrees when we awoke this morning, and even though it was a sunny day, it has been cool all day. It won't be long before I dig out the serious cold weather gear: Insulated gloves, polar fleece skull cap, fade mask, etc. The only outer garments I ever wear in even freezing weather in the years I've been riding are lightweight shirts and windbreakers. Anything with real insulation quickly overheats me and causes sweating, which wets the clothing and then REALLY gets cold. Thus the cyclists habit of adding and peeling layers as we approach hills etc: Zipping on the windbreaker when topping a hill to stay warm while zooming downhill, and peeling it off when climbing such hills.
I like to use errands for cycling excuses, and I recently found a users manual for a drill press I'd sold a couple months ago to a neighbor and Church friend. She and her hubby live about 8 miles from our home, so I decided to hand deliver the manual ... on the Catrike .
It's always frustrating to navigate terrible stretches of pavement, and Mountain Valley Road filled that bill this time. Cracks that barely register in a car with more weight and larger wheels make a severe stress and pounding on a bike or trike. But hey, I survived, and after only a couple miles of that nonsense, I was on Old Route 66 which, for the section I ride regularly, has new pavement and a lovely wide shoulder without too much shoulder garbage scattered along it.
Riding a recumbent trike, situated so close to the ground, it is easy to spot debris and also to slow down or even stop to pick up detritus and throw it out of the road. Just a few hundred yards past the Mountain Valley / Route 66 junction, there were several large pieces of lumber lying in my way on the shoulder, and I picked them up and heaved them completely off the roadway. If I had been in my regular dinosaur-powered vehicle, I would likely have taken such wood pieces home to put through the wood stove. Then again, I may never have spotted them at 60 MPH.
After a few miles I was getting woozy and found my blood glucose (BG) was 120 and falling, so I ate one of my emergency cookies and rode onward. Another few miles and I distinctly heard the telltale bleep-bleep of my insulin pump complaining it had run out of insulin. This had a deleterious effect on my BG since it was over 200 when I got home. So at present, after refilling the pump and plugging it into a new section of my belly fat, it's Diet Root Beer until the blood glucose gets down where it belongs.
Ride Started: 11:15 AM Ride Ended: 2:52 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.8 Ending Voltage: 12.9 Lowest: 12.9
Beginning Blood Glucose: 225 Lowest BG mid-ride: 120 Ending BG Reading: 218
Lowest Temp 53F Highest Temp: 71F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 19.41
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
5.5 MPH 7.1 MPH 32.3 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
3 hours 32 mins 2 hours 43 mins 48 minutes
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Look, Ma, Only Two Wheels
Today's Postal Tracking
Yesterday, Monday, I decided to drag out my old 2-wheel recumbent, from the storage shed. It has been literally months since I rode it and I've been wondering if I want to keep it or sell it to someone cheap.
I pulled it out ~ the front tire was a bit soft ~ so I aired both tires up to 55 PSI.
I rode it directly from home down to the pavement and thenceforth, since with its big 26 X 1.95 tires it rolls over the rocks and rough places not too badly.
I quickly realized why I ride it so seldom nowadays. With 21 speeds, 3 in front and 7 in the rear, it not only lacks a good low "granny" gear for climbing hills, but also lacks a high enough gear on the other end of the gear spectrum for cruising at speed on straight and level or, better yet, downhill roads.
I was, as usual, a bit late in getting going, so I only rode to the Post Office and back. The ride was fairly enjoyable except for the relative difficulty of motivating this machine since it is almost twice as heavy as my little lightweight Catrike Road .
The PO had a couple of envelopes for me, so I tucked them into my rear pannier and took off for home.
After I exited the pavement and began struggling up the goat-path hill towards home, the rear chain popped off the existing granny gear and locked up between the cassette and the wheel. Thus I was forced to stop, park the bike, and work on the chain. I also took the opportunity of adjusting the shift stops in hopes it would not be able to jump off the highest or lowest cassette gear in the immediate future. After getting good and greasy, I resumed huffing and puffing up the hill. I noticed my neighbor, in her black pickup truck, had stopped on the road behind me about the same spot where I'd just left. Thinnking nothing of it, I continued on to the house. When I arrived home, Jacque enquired if there had been any mail, and I said "Sure", and went to retrieve it from my pannier. It was nowhere to be found. It must have fallen out of my pannier somehow. We drove down the hill, retracing my route and peering closely at the sides of the road watching for the missing mail, all the way to the PO and back, to no avail.
Remembering my neighbor who had stopped behind me so close where I'd been working on the bike, we drove over to their place to see if perhaps she might have picked up my lost mail, and sure enough, she had.
Thank goodness for good neighbors. Not only had she found my 2 pieces of mail, she had picked up my bright yellow windbreaker which somehow had fallen out as well. I have NO idea how so much junk came loose, unnoticed, from my pannier. Sigh.
I'm seriously thinking of trading off the old 2-wheel recumbent. I need a spare ride, in case something serious goes wrong with the trike, but I'm losing interest in 2-wheelers.
Ride Started: 2:23 PM Ride Ended: 3:33 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 14.0 Ending Voltage: 13.2 Lowest: 13.0
Beginning Blood Glucose: 154 Ending BG Reading: 100
Lowest Temp 67F Highest Temp: 84F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 5.50
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
4.6 MPH 7.3 MPH 26.4 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
1 hour 12 mins 45 minutes 26 minutes
Yesterday, Monday, I decided to drag out my old 2-wheel recumbent, from the storage shed. It has been literally months since I rode it and I've been wondering if I want to keep it or sell it to someone cheap.
I pulled it out ~ the front tire was a bit soft ~ so I aired both tires up to 55 PSI.
I rode it directly from home down to the pavement and thenceforth, since with its big 26 X 1.95 tires it rolls over the rocks and rough places not too badly.
I quickly realized why I ride it so seldom nowadays. With 21 speeds, 3 in front and 7 in the rear, it not only lacks a good low "granny" gear for climbing hills, but also lacks a high enough gear on the other end of the gear spectrum for cruising at speed on straight and level or, better yet, downhill roads.
I was, as usual, a bit late in getting going, so I only rode to the Post Office and back. The ride was fairly enjoyable except for the relative difficulty of motivating this machine since it is almost twice as heavy as my little lightweight Catrike Road .
The PO had a couple of envelopes for me, so I tucked them into my rear pannier and took off for home.
After I exited the pavement and began struggling up the goat-path hill towards home, the rear chain popped off the existing granny gear and locked up between the cassette and the wheel. Thus I was forced to stop, park the bike, and work on the chain. I also took the opportunity of adjusting the shift stops in hopes it would not be able to jump off the highest or lowest cassette gear in the immediate future. After getting good and greasy, I resumed huffing and puffing up the hill. I noticed my neighbor, in her black pickup truck, had stopped on the road behind me about the same spot where I'd just left. Thinnking nothing of it, I continued on to the house. When I arrived home, Jacque enquired if there had been any mail, and I said "Sure", and went to retrieve it from my pannier. It was nowhere to be found. It must have fallen out of my pannier somehow. We drove down the hill, retracing my route and peering closely at the sides of the road watching for the missing mail, all the way to the PO and back, to no avail.
Remembering my neighbor who had stopped behind me so close where I'd been working on the bike, we drove over to their place to see if perhaps she might have picked up my lost mail, and sure enough, she had.
Thank goodness for good neighbors. Not only had she found my 2 pieces of mail, she had picked up my bright yellow windbreaker which somehow had fallen out as well. I have NO idea how so much junk came loose, unnoticed, from my pannier. Sigh.
I'm seriously thinking of trading off the old 2-wheel recumbent. I need a spare ride, in case something serious goes wrong with the trike, but I'm losing interest in 2-wheelers.
Ride Started: 2:23 PM Ride Ended: 3:33 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 14.0 Ending Voltage: 13.2 Lowest: 13.0
Beginning Blood Glucose: 154 Ending BG Reading: 100
Lowest Temp 67F Highest Temp: 84F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 5.50
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
4.6 MPH 7.3 MPH 26.4 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
1 hour 12 mins 45 minutes 26 minutes
Friday, October 13, 2017
Back Roads, Beaches, Broken Chains
Today's Tracking Along the Rio Grande
Fridays have recently become a togetherness day for us to ride together. Since it's supposed to be our weekly date night too, it's a great way to spend part of the day together.
Last week's Friday ride ended with a chain that gave up the ghost just before we arrived back at our vehicle & trailer combination, requiring only a short walk tugging the now non-operable trike.
I replaced the broken link the next day, and today the patched chain worked fine. MOSTLY.
We again immediately entered the non-paved packed gravel paths that wind in and out of the shady trees, sometimes adjacent to the Rio Grande with the river water flowing only a few feet away, sometimes deep into the cottonwoods. We rode around until we got good and hungry, then turned around and rode back towards the trail intersection with Mountain Road, which when followed, takes us to Old Town and Steve's Ice Cream Shoppe.
We enjoyed a very nice snack, visits with touristas from all over the country in town for Balloon Fiesta, and even bumped into some dear Church friends on the plaza while listening to the Mariachi band playing on the bandstand.
On the way back to the vehicle, our chain AGAIN locked up: This time it was my front chain; it had jumped its idler pulley and jammed.
After gently rearranging the chain back in its rightful channel, we made it back with no further incident.
However, after returning home and examining the chain and idlers, I found the chains were all so worn that they allowed too much slack, allowing such things as chain breakage and jumping since the idler pulleys are no longer able to keep the chain tight in its winding travel through all the pulleys and gears.
Thus, another order to Ebay for new chains: On these recumbents it requires THREE new chains to get enough length to thread the entire chain circuitry. More greasy hands and busted knuckles coming up soon.
Ride Started: 11:22 AM Ride Ended: 2:59 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.2 Ending Voltage: 13.0 Lowest: 12.9Beginning Blood Glucose: 157 Ending BG Reading: 159 (after ice cream) Lowest Temp 71F Highest Temp: 91F Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 13.89 Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed 4.7 MPH 6.0 MPH 15.2 MPH Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time 2 hours 59 mins 2 hours 20 mins 39 minutes
Fridays have recently become a togetherness day for us to ride together. Since it's supposed to be our weekly date night too, it's a great way to spend part of the day together.
Last week's Friday ride ended with a chain that gave up the ghost just before we arrived back at our vehicle & trailer combination, requiring only a short walk tugging the now non-operable trike.
I replaced the broken link the next day, and today the patched chain worked fine. MOSTLY.
We again immediately entered the non-paved packed gravel paths that wind in and out of the shady trees, sometimes adjacent to the Rio Grande with the river water flowing only a few feet away, sometimes deep into the cottonwoods. We rode around until we got good and hungry, then turned around and rode back towards the trail intersection with Mountain Road, which when followed, takes us to Old Town and Steve's Ice Cream Shoppe.
We enjoyed a very nice snack, visits with touristas from all over the country in town for Balloon Fiesta, and even bumped into some dear Church friends on the plaza while listening to the Mariachi band playing on the bandstand.
On the way back to the vehicle, our chain AGAIN locked up: This time it was my front chain; it had jumped its idler pulley and jammed.
After gently rearranging the chain back in its rightful channel, we made it back with no further incident.
However, after returning home and examining the chain and idlers, I found the chains were all so worn that they allowed too much slack, allowing such things as chain breakage and jumping since the idler pulleys are no longer able to keep the chain tight in its winding travel through all the pulleys and gears.
Thus, another order to Ebay for new chains: On these recumbents it requires THREE new chains to get enough length to thread the entire chain circuitry. More greasy hands and busted knuckles coming up soon.
Ride Started: 11:22 AM Ride Ended: 2:59 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.2 Ending Voltage: 13.0 Lowest: 12.9Beginning Blood Glucose: 157 Ending BG Reading: 159 (after ice cream) Lowest Temp 71F Highest Temp: 91F Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 13.89 Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed 4.7 MPH 6.0 MPH 15.2 MPH Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time 2 hours 59 mins 2 hours 20 mins 39 minutes
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
A Fabulous Day for Riding Indeed
Today's impressive tracking
Today's ride wound around the same 15 mile loop I rode a few days ago. I was impressed with the radio coverage with my newly elevated antennas but upon comparison with the route from last Monday I see the coverage is no better, and perhaps a bit lacking in comparison. The higher flags on top of the antennas help motorists to spot me earlier but evidently I'm getting no increase in radio range. Sigh. Oh Well.
Gutierrez Canyon is a lovely place to ride with the scenic area and low traffic. It does have some steep climbs but it's a fun route.
This is Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta week and thousands of folks are here to participate and attend. Lots of visitors heard on the ham radio today. I enjoyed talking to several and hearing them talking to others.
It is definitely getting pretty nippy now. I wore my windbreaker until about the halfway point and it was a bit chilly without it.
My insulin pump ran out of insulin also about halfway through the ride. I continued riding anyway and checked my blood glucose to make sure it didn't get too high. It actually got down to 59 - this after running out of insulin - and I "forced" myself to eat a cookie to continue climbing the hills. Yum.
Ride Started: 11:47 AM Ride Ended: 2:21 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.2 Ending Voltage: 13.0 Lowest: 12.9
Beginning Blood Glucose: 207 Ending BG Reading: 135
Lowest Temp 50F Highest Temp: 67F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 15.64
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
6.1 MPH 8.1 MPH 37.5 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
2 hours 33 mins 1 hour 55 mins 37 minutes
Today's ride wound around the same 15 mile loop I rode a few days ago. I was impressed with the radio coverage with my newly elevated antennas but upon comparison with the route from last Monday I see the coverage is no better, and perhaps a bit lacking in comparison. The higher flags on top of the antennas help motorists to spot me earlier but evidently I'm getting no increase in radio range. Sigh. Oh Well.
Gutierrez Canyon is a lovely place to ride with the scenic area and low traffic. It does have some steep climbs but it's a fun route.
This is Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta week and thousands of folks are here to participate and attend. Lots of visitors heard on the ham radio today. I enjoyed talking to several and hearing them talking to others.
It is definitely getting pretty nippy now. I wore my windbreaker until about the halfway point and it was a bit chilly without it.
My insulin pump ran out of insulin also about halfway through the ride. I continued riding anyway and checked my blood glucose to make sure it didn't get too high. It actually got down to 59 - this after running out of insulin - and I "forced" myself to eat a cookie to continue climbing the hills. Yum.
Ride Started: 11:47 AM Ride Ended: 2:21 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.2 Ending Voltage: 13.0 Lowest: 12.9
Beginning Blood Glucose: 207 Ending BG Reading: 135
Lowest Temp 50F Highest Temp: 67F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 15.64
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
6.1 MPH 8.1 MPH 37.5 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
2 hours 33 mins 1 hour 55 mins 37 minutes
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