Shifting Gears: Day Thirteen

Pick and mix monitoring. There is a 0.8mmol/L (14mg/dL) difference between these glucometers. Which is fine in the normal range, but can be confusing and potentially dangerous at the very low glucose end. Always trust your symptoms.

Another typical keto breakfast option in Germany.

Well, it looks pretty grim on first glance, but that weather front is moving to the east, and leaving what looks like a reasonable day behind it. Except, it wasn’t!

The swollen banks of the Rhine, sucking up the trees.

I am pretty sure that this is not the EuroVelo 15 route.

The steps that nearly led to disaster, the phone detached from the mount and was tottering on the stream side of the step when I found it.

The pretty town of Laufenburg on the route to Konstanz.

Riding into the centre of Laufenburg.

A healthy and colourful ketogenic meal eaten on the hoof with minimal preparation.

Another supermarket freezer bag doubling as a phone case. A highly effective and cheap solution.

Thoroughly wet and muddy at the end of the days ride.

Ketones looking good. I’m sure the trace bounces around partly due to the diet and partly the suppressant effect of insulin.