Monday, 30 January 2017

Day 35, No Whine with wine!

Had a pretty stressful sleep and it was hard work to drag myself on the bike this morning but I was very glad I did. After the usual 15mins of unease I was encourage to follow, not draft, a few others and I managed a pretty respectable pace into work, actually enjoying the ride.

Glucose:    4.7
Ketone:      1.0
Breakfast:   Broth Butter
Lunch:        Smoked salmon, cream cheese, steak, mushroom, tomato, broccoli, wine, coffee
Dinner:       Sausage, crackling, yogurt MCT, almond butter
Ride:          42km commute, better :-)

My bloods, glucose and ketones are lower after a ride, big lunch and wine, the same happened last weekend. Despite this my ride in was good and by mid morning I was feeling pretty positive maybe my magnesium loading had helped? I had a really enjoyable client lunch and the anticipation of it helped keep my hunger at bay through the morning.

After having a couple of glasses of wine at lunch I planned to take it easy on my way home but once my usual 15min acclimatisation had passed I found I wanted to push a bit harder, turns out wine is a good fuel. Maybe I should incorporate it into my race strategy like our late friend Richard who fuelled London-Paris on a camel-back of red wine causing the organisers to state no alcohol in their ride brief.

We had a quiet evening starting the 2nd series of "Fortitude".

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