MoAlpha

And does (s)he glove up?

indyfabz

There was only one left. It looked a little worse for wear so I "settled" for a pompano.

LAJ

That's around crit pressure for 23's. You'll get there.

LAJ

Does cooking fish twith the head still attached make it taste better? Curious on the reasoning behind that.

indyfabz

Some fish have tasty cheek and/or head meat. I also think it looks better. One downside is that you have to watch out for the eyeballs. I nearly ate one earlier this year.

LAJ

Gotcha. Some people like eyeballs, and I'm definitely not in that group.

MoAlpha

Yeah, well what do I know? I'm sure last time I clung to a Cat III-IV field by my toenails (in the days before Cat V) it was on 18 or 20 mm silks with 105 psi in them.

datlas 

I survived my doctor's visit. He was pleased with my outstanding lipid profile. I asked for the new Shingrix vaccine but it's backordered. Sad.

seedsbelize 

What tires are you riding? The know-it-all retrogrouch is having difficulty with these figures.

MoAlpha

25mm Conti something something. They're on a 21mm ID rim and have ballooned to a real dia. of considerably more than advertised.

datlas 

So here is some data/info from doctor's visit:

Weight (with shoes/clothes/full pockets) 145 pounds (nekked I think I am 141 these days)
BP 120/74
HR 52
HCT 39.2 (clearly NOT taking epo)
HDL 84
LDL 75
Glucose 113

So my "good cholesterol" is higher than my "bad" one. It's not commonly seen but it's healthy.

MoAlpha

Nice numbers with the exception of that funky glucose. WTH is going on there, you think?

datlas 

I am certain I have one (or more) genes that put me at higher risk for Type 2 DM. My dad has it. It tends to run in families. Typically if you are not too fat you will only have a borderline sugar level. If you get fat the sugar goes above 125 and you have diabetes.

I expect it will stay borderline but if it gets worse I will have to go on a low carb diet. Sad!

BillyD

If so you can say goodbye to Chipotles. As it is, 125 is a good chunk outside the standard range. Makes me feel more comfortable about my recent 99 reading, even though I know everyone is different.

datlas 

They have changed the cutoff for "normal" or ideal fasting glucose.

BITD the cutoff for "normal" was 115. So my 113 would have been normal 20+ years ago.

Since there is an epidemic of diabetes they want to catch people "at risk" for diabetes (like me) and we know people with a fasting glucose of 100-125 are at much higher risk of getting diabetes compared to those under 100.

So they dropped the cutoff from 115 to 100.

They may be coming for you next.

p.s. "They" means the public health people, their intentions are generally good but sometimes they mess up, like the whole BMI fiasco.

BillyD

The diabetes and obesity are so out of control in this country it’s obscene.

datlas 

Agree. But plenty of people are super heavy and do not have diabetes. You have to have the genes for it and the obesity. I have the gene but not the obesity. So there's hope.

Dan333SP

Hey folks. Just about 3 weeks to go until the first baby (a girl) arrives, which explains my absence round these parts. I've been riding every day per usual, but am fully expecting that to dwindle into a very occasional half hour on the trainer during the first 6 months (or 6 years, tbd). Will report back once she's made the US women's olympic team for road racing.

Oh, and in bike related news... I finally got myself some higher end shoes (Giro Factor Techlace), and boy howdy do they feel amazing. I've been using various lower-end Giro shoes for years, but having a super light, stiff, and molded shoe definitely feels good, even if there's probably 0 measurable performance difference.

Dan333SP

We may also put an offer on a house in the near future, because why not make the two most expensive choices you can realistically make as an adult at basically the same time?

MoAlpha

Hey, I know where you can get some great free diet advice!

I’ve been limiting carbs since my father got sick and died slow and ugly from multiple complications of DM.

Trsnrtr

Since I've lost 30# and cut out as much sugar as I care to like potatoes, processed foods, etc., I'm running between 95 and 100 on my once a week stick that I do every Monday. My next A1C isn't until October but I anticipate a pretty decent one as my A1C is usually better than my fasting tests. My last fasting test at the doc's in April was 128 so I've come down a lot. My A1C was 6.4 at the same time.

For the record, everybody in my immediate family has/had Type 2 diabetes. I'm the only one who has managed to avoid medications and probably due to my cycling.

BTW, my test strips just expired. What happens when they go bad? Time for new ones, I guess.

MoAlpha

Man, shoes must have gone up!

Congrats, my boy.

BillyD

What, you mean the house and the shoes?


Edit: Mo beat me to it.

datlas 

Pics??

datlas 

I am aware of the incredible benefits of a low-carb diet for elevated sugar. I typically tell all my DM patients to try to limit carbs to 100g/day.

I am not quite ready to go there, but if the sugar creeps up (which is quite possible) I may have to take my own medicine, so to speak.