Last year was a good year both for cycling, and in general. I completed the London - Edinburgh - London was really happy we how the event went for me and cannot wait for London Edinburgh London 2017
| When your tired you will happily sleep anywhere. |
Pictured with Stuart McLean at the end of the LEL cycle in London after completing 1,400KM. Great memories and would recommend anyone doing the event like this. The volunteers where amazing.
"If you still laughing or at least smiling at the end of a 1,000+ do another one. If not, do shorter cycles you will enjoy them more."
In November my beloved machine that I use for all cycling the frame broke. Luckily the frame was five days within warranty. Chain Reaction Cycles and Beone bikes were amazing and replaced the frame with a new one. I could not have been happier about the customer service and response. especially from CRC.
While I was waiting for the warranty to be reviewed. I went with an Tifosi CK7 Audax frame to keep me going. It is a good frame but I do fine it is harder to push, but this maybe just me. So I have gone from one bike, to bike parts, to finishing with two bikes. I am now worried for the N+1 bikes is going to kick in, as I am already looking at a fixed speed bike for winter training.
Training this year has not been going as planned. I've completed a few 200, 300KM events and mileage wise I've only done 300km less this year compared to last year. What I notice is that my fitness is not improving, and I am always tired. So resulting in not been to eager to get on the bike and really push the training. With 7 weeks to go to cycling the MILE FAILTE 1,200. Which I am also helping to organize and will be volunteering at the week later I'm not that confident about the starting or finishing the event. I went to the doctor to get a general checkup and blood taken everything came back fine there is nothing wrong, and your blood sugar is normal, the doctor suggested "maybe your over training" my response not a chance, not cycling enough for that.
So what I've done I decided after Easter to remove sugar from my diet, not sure this is the problem causing the tiredness but it is causing the weight and I do have a very sweet tooth. I expect that the fist week or two is going to be hard going, and I have already got a tastes of this already. What I find is that when I look at the food I eat, there is sugar in most things like wraps, sauces, and cereals. I am so surprised how much sugar here is in our food.
Day 1: This was not too bad at all.I did not have headaches, I think this was to do with the Easter egg overload from the weekend. Main problem was checking all the food I was about to eat, and been surprised - no I can not have this there sugar in it and it is in the first four ingredients so there is a lot of sugar. Woke up a bit tired and had a good breakfast of porridge, nuts, and banana. I was surprised this was really good with no sugar and the only sweetness coming from the banana. On the way into work in the car, I needed some protein so I eat some of my lunch this really filled be up and give me a great start to the day.
Day 2: The crash; I got very little sleep the night before only an hour or so. It was really unsafe to commute to work in this state so I worked from home and sleep until 8:30am after getting back into bed at 6am, started working at 9am. I was suprised I was not craving sugar like I nornally do when I do not get a lot of sleep but this time I didn't and got a lot of work done. Until, around 5pm I crashed totally falling asleep. An hour later I was up again and off to do some shopping for the house. Back home shopping was but away and more sleep.
Day 3: Tried getting up and out to work. I had ready-brek with a little honey this was most likely cheating a little, but I needed it. Just had my lunch, it will be interesting to see what happens at 3pm to see if I have the normal afternoon dip and hear the whispering of sugar, sugar, sweet sugar. What I do notice today is the sugar fog and
I expect the first two weeks to be hard going from what I read on the web from other people's experiences of doing the same and going cold turkey off sugar. Rick Foster article My Year off Sugar gives some good information of his experiences.It will be interesting to see how I handle long distance cycling without sugar. Older riders talk about the body burning fat, when sugar is removed or not been taken in. You have a lot of fat in your body, endless amounts of fuel, so it will be interesting to see how this goes and how long it take to kick in.
I will need to see what options I will have at shops that do not have sugar included. I live on Müller® Rice and other sugar stuff when on 200+ rides these are easy to eat, readily available, and are easy on the body to digest.
I just found this site over lunch as I was thinking; Rice as I was typing this. Sugar free rice . need to give this a try thanks Sugar free Mom.
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