Benjamin Allen's Summer Outing 600km Audax

Final PBP qualifier!! It should be 603km but lost a bit due to strava fail. glucose control was not great, running high for much of the time but at least I had no hypos. I was in range for several hours during a long hilly night section. I arrived at the sleep stop at 4:30am. Glucose normal but very high ketones. I then ate, forgot to inject and fell asleep! SEveral large insulin doses (3+4+4) were needed to bring doen the glucose and ketones when I left a few hours later. Final section was a sprint along the A38 with 4 Corners Audax. Finished just after 7pm.

London-Wales-London 400km Audax

Another 400 a week after Moors and Wolds was a big ask but I didn't want to miss this ride. A lot of publicity had gone into increasing the number of women entering this ride including holding places when the ride sold out soon after opening.

3 units of levemir at start, glucose control fairly good during the day, I ate a lot more than I did on Moors and Wolds which definitely helped. beans on toast at woodstock 1.5 units novorapid. Glucose was running slightly high for the next few hours so after a couple of rather aggressive corrections (2x 1units novorapid) I dropped slightly low just before next control at Tewksbury. I was glad of the chance to drink some orange juice as I was running out of water. 13:45 Panini and flapjack at tewksbury 1 unit of insulin, 18:15 vegetable stew, chocolate cake, yoghurt and fruit at Chepstow 3 units of novorapid. Slightly too much as I was dropping low an hour later so stopped to eat a doughnut. 00:15 Vegetable chilli and baked potato at Lambourne 1.5 units of novorapid, running high overnight but it was very cold so I didn't want to risk stopping to treat a hypo and I had very little orange juice left. 06:45 Coffee and brioche roll at Henley, finished at 07:30.
The coldest overnight ride I've done, colder than FFF500 at new year.