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Tag Archives: Vision Quest
Kanza training and Dirty Mudd’r [Race]
Last weekend I completed two really great long (sloooooooooooow) rides. Saturday I left the house at 7:30 am to start my trek to Aurora, IL a suburb of Chicago. Why ride to Aurora, you ask? Well the American Diabetes Assoc. … Continue reading
Power of positivity
Power of positivity. Following up from my last post, here is a picture of my blood sugar levels on the third day. If you ever wonder what I mean when I say each day is a different, this should be … Continue reading
A tale of two days.
A Tale of Two Days. I know I’m preaching to the choir for other diabetics and we all have crazy diabetes days. I had such a rough Monday, Tuesday was better but not great. I am guilty of not prioritizing … Continue reading
Posted in Commute, Training, Uncategorized
Tagged blood glucose, bolus, commute, diabetes, diabetics, Endurance, fitness goals, living with diabetes, medtronic, Morning exercise, Vision Quest
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The Dirt on Dirty Kanza
THE TRUTH ABOUT MY DIRTY KANZA TRAINING. If you’ve looked at my race schedule for this year you may have noticed the “Dirty Kanza” aka The Dirty. A couple of things to note – there is no “tri” in the … Continue reading
Posted in Motivation, Training, Uncategorized
Tagged blood glucose, commute, Destination Races, diabetes, Dirty Kanza, Endurance, fitness goals, Mountain Biking, Tour de Cure, Vision Quest
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First Race
Last Saturday I participated in the Barry-Roubaix Gravel Road Race. http://barry-roubaix.com/ A 62 mile race in the middle of Michigan near Grand Rapids. The week(s) leading up the race I was both nervous and excited about it. Nervous because we’ve … Continue reading
An Evening with Andy Potts
Mental Toughness: “the ability to consistently perform towards the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of competitive circumstances.” I recently had the chance to see Andy Potts speak. Andy, started with a recount of his journey to winning … Continue reading
Getting through the Leadville 100 MTB Race
Early in 2013 a group of 30+ Vision Quest (http://www.visionquestcoaching.com/) athletes had signed up to do the Leadville 100 MTB race many were roadies, some were triathletes (me) some were avid mountain bikers. I did have a little background in … Continue reading
Leadville training weeks ?
I am here. I arrived in Leadville today. It seems like the last month has been a whirlwind. This is it. This is the true test. I’m not going to spend a lot of time rehashing the past but I … Continue reading
Leadville training weeks 8-10 – flatlanders unite
Although it looks like my average day blood sugars the above picture is the elevation changes of the leadville mountain bike race. I try not to look at this too much. Depending on what minute (yes minute) of the day … Continue reading
Leadville training week 7?!!!!!
Whew! I can’t believe I’ve been training for Leadville now for 7 weeks, my plan was to blog every week but time has been a tough commodity to come by lately. In order to make things work these last few … Continue reading
Posted in Leadville, Training, Uncategorized, Yoga!
Tagged blood glucose, Destination Races, dexcom, diabetes, Endurance, fitness goals, health, Mountain Biking, Vision Quest
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