{"id":107,"date":"2023-05-03T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T09:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2023-05-04T12:06:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T11:06:43","slug":"our-125-mile-tester-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/03\/our-125-mile-tester-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Our 125 mile tester ride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karl and Simon did a days riding raising funds for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilgrimshospices.org\/\">Pilgrims Hospice<\/a> riding 125 miles around Kent. The staff and volunteers made a fantastic job or organising the Cycle Challenge, we had a great day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-04-30-at-18.57.26.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-04-30-at-18.57.26.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-04-30-at-18.57.26-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Simon and Karl after riding 125 miles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Interesting blood glucose problems during ride. I (Karl) had low blood sugar 1 hour into ride so decided to disconnect insulin pump and manage manually. I needed no insulin until 9pm in the evening having consumed over 3000 calories. I am definitely a type 1 diabetic so is this evidence of insulin pooling in subcutaneous tissue &#8211; watch this space&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fantastic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fujibikes.com\/collections\/performance\">Fuji<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/99spokes.com\/bikes\/fuji\/2010\/sl1-comp-sram\">Comp SL-1<\/a> bike I used served me well, but the freewheel failed half way round, I had to peddle continuously to prevent it seizing, so it&#8217;s off to the bike doctors soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incidentally I am not dressed as Spiderman,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spyder.com\/\">Spyder<\/a> is a brand of American sports clothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl and Simon did a days riding raising funds for the Pilgrims Hospice riding 125 miles around Kent. The staff and volunteers made a fantastic job or organising the Cycle Challenge, we had a great day. Interesting blood glucose problems during ride. I (Karl) had low blood sugar 1 hour into ride so decided to &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more text-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/03\/our-125-mile-tester-ride\/\" class=\"more-link py-2 px-4\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our 125 mile tester ride&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeride.bigmight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}