Living Well With Diabetes

It was 53 miles from Othello to Kennewick. It should have been an easy ride, given it was mostly gently rolling farmlands, but it sure felt difficult.

My only explanation for it feeling so difficult is my own tireness from riding six days in a row now and also it’s warming up in this area. There’s a high pressure cell building over eastern Washington and Oregon (and Idaho and Utah too, I’m told). The high temperature today in Kennewick was 91 degrees and tomorrow is supposed to be the first of four days in a row of 100+ degree high temperatures.

I think my days of enjoying a cup of coffee in the morning are over for a while. I’ll do better if I can do more riding in cooler temperatures and the only time I’ll get that is by riding earlier in the day. I’ve been clipping in to the pedals at between 7 and 8 AM, so I could get a couple hours of cool riding in if I start at 6 AM. I’ll try to get started that early.

When I checked in to the motel today, a package was waiting for me. It was a replacement PDM and two extra insulin pods. Yay! After dinner, I’ll go through the process of transferring all my settings from my current PDM unit to the new one. Actually, “transfer” is probably too fancy a word. “Re-enter” is more correct. I had long, fancy names for all my basal programs. Re-entering all these settings a pain and very time-consuming because the PDM doesn’t have a keyboard.

Here are a few photos from my ride today: