The relationship between a cyclist and bicycle is not unlike a marriage. Many scoff at the concept, but when you’re relying on a piece of machinery powered by your legs to take you 100 miles in a day and it’s the only thing between you and the pain of pavement at 50 miles per hour, […]
You eat an elephant, the saying goes, one bite at a time. You work on your health, diabetic or not, in a similar way. In the excellent Type II Diabetes: the First Year, Gretchen Becker makes the point that she doesn’t like exercise, but she can definitely commit to movement–doing something (anything really) to get […]
I learned these from The Non-Runner’s Marathon Training Guide, but they really make sense for any kind of athletic endeavor, particularly like these runs and bike rides. Here are your two most important athletic goals with any event: 1) No injuries 2) Finish In particular, the Non-Runner’s Marathon Training Guide asks that you not have […]
Sunday afternoon was just looking great for a bike ride. I was behind all weekend as my niece had a birthday party on Saturday and there were all kinds of missed communication by the family, but from about 3 pm I was on the Bianchi, possibly the best ride I’ve had yet on that bike. […]
The bottom line on training: the only way to get better is by doing it. Yes, it’s important to have a plan; there are indeed issues like overtraining and undertraining (been on both ends of the spectrum), and diet is important. But the only way to be a better runner is to go out there […]
Like I said earlier, I hate running. But I found that many of my friends were interested in it, so I got more interested in it for the social aspects. For someone like me, running isn’t fun. It hurts. When I was heavier, it hurt more. My knees and feet and ankles gave me pain; […]
Let me be honest about one thing here: I hate running. I absolutely hate it. But yet, I do it. I’ve now done four organized runs in less than a year and a half, including one marathon (although that was not my best exercise experience). But all that said, it’s clearly not my exercise of […]
I’m a social worker. More specifically, I’m a social worker who works in health care. Many of my clients over the years have been diabetic, lots of whom are what the medical world calls “non-compliant“; basically, folks who aren’t doing what their physician instructs them to do. I’ve seen the consequences of non-compliance, what Type […]
I ran this 10K for the first time on Saturday. I found out about this year’s event through (what else?) Twitter. In fact, I found out that two of my Twitter buddies (@tadasauce and @typezero3) were going to be running it (@typezero3 along with his wife and one year old son) and another (@surfchik4jesus) would […]
Hi. My name is Ryan and I’m a diabetic. This is not a twelve step program, but in some ways it feels like one. Diabetes is not a disease in quite the same way alcohol is, but like any chronic disease, managing it on an ongoing basis is a huge challenge. I learned I had […]