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<blockquote data-quote="Auckland Canary" data-source="post: 591188" data-attributes="member: 70613"><p>Hi,</p><p> </p><p>I am on exactly the same regime and cycle about 200 miles a week and will be doing the Ride London 100 in a few weeks. I can't be of a huge amount of help here as my blood can be very erratic. I've done 40-50 miles and hypoed as well as the same distance and coming back higher than when I left. I generally ride solo so don't have the problem of trying to keep up with others. You could always ask if people minded stopping for 1 minute for you to do a test though.</p><p> </p><p>What you find may help is to not worry too much about long acting type carbs during the ride but just get your way through the ride with Dextrose or jelly babies or whatever takes your fancy. These are easy to eat on your bike and you can store them in your pockets very easily. Obviously after the ride you need to monitor your levels over the next 12 hours etc because of this risk of delayed hypo and take on board longer acting carbs</p><p> </p><p>I am not sure about a CGM but others will be able to give you advice on how they work .I believe pumps do make long term strenuous exercise easier but again never having had one I don't know.</p><p> </p><p>There is a cycling group called Team BG which frequent these forums and you can also Google them and most of them are Pump using T1's so hopefully one of them will see this and pop up soon to help you out or you can email them directly.</p><p> </p><p>Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Auckland Canary, post: 591188, member: 70613"] Hi, I am on exactly the same regime and cycle about 200 miles a week and will be doing the Ride London 100 in a few weeks. I can't be of a huge amount of help here as my blood can be very erratic. I've done 40-50 miles and hypoed as well as the same distance and coming back higher than when I left. I generally ride solo so don't have the problem of trying to keep up with others. You could always ask if people minded stopping for 1 minute for you to do a test though. What you find may help is to not worry too much about long acting type carbs during the ride but just get your way through the ride with Dextrose or jelly babies or whatever takes your fancy. These are easy to eat on your bike and you can store them in your pockets very easily. Obviously after the ride you need to monitor your levels over the next 12 hours etc because of this risk of delayed hypo and take on board longer acting carbs I am not sure about a CGM but others will be able to give you advice on how they work .I believe pumps do make long term strenuous exercise easier but again never having had one I don't know. There is a cycling group called Team BG which frequent these forums and you can also Google them and most of them are Pump using T1's so hopefully one of them will see this and pop up soon to help you out or you can email them directly. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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