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My Bike Trip To Golspie, what did I learn?
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My bike trip to Golspie, what did I learn?
What I learned from this trip is probably the least fun part, but probably the most useful to budding would be born again health enthusiasts. This trip is my third trip in recent years if we discount my tenage three day ride to Blackpool. Including the ride over Snake Pass, where we stayed at Hagg Farm Youth Hostel. Which is still there. I managed to cycle all day whilst intermittent fasting. But this distance didn't much improve over time because I kept eating some carbs and alcohol when I finally broke my fast. So I did not maximise my gains. Carbohydrates seemed to minimise the gains that were on offer to me after such tremendous efforts of cycling all day. This contrasts rather well with my second bike trip to Manchester two years earlier, where I had hoped to get to Scotland, but the trip was foiled by a preventable virus. A virus that had only come about, in my opinion, due to the consumption of sodium metabisulphate. On this trip dispite getting ill at the end, I did manage to consume much less carbs on some days and on occassion did indeed benefit from my efforts of getting into keto and whilst fasting all day reached 70 miles in one day with relative ease, and I felt great. Although in my opinion fasting may have brought some benefits to my health, it didn't necessarily maximise the speed on the bike. I think I know this because if I stopped and grabed some carbs along the way through the day, I would feel a sudden lift in my abilities on the bike at about the 15 minute mark after eating. Although I may say that sodium metabisulphate increases my suseptability to virus because of my two previous trips, this trip has managed to confirm that, by me making a concerted effort to avoid sodium metabisulphate I did miracously avoid getting ill. Although my output increased and the pain from lacking energy decresed with carbs, it seemed that eating carbs did not seem to increase my health. Well actually I did not bring my keto reader, like on all other trips so far. I think I wanted the trip to go with the flow. In that if it felt good at the time then so be it. I did intermitent fast and tried to eat keto and it may have produced some ketones at some points. However, my overiding concern was my continued desire for non keto foods. I seemed obsessed with carbs and alcohol! As a consequence of my continued consumption of carbs and sugars even with intermittent fasting I would say on balance that I did not benefit much from my keto attempts. It would seem to me that as a result my metabolic health did not improve. I think I also discovered that BCAA (branch chain amino acids) taken along with a wide spectrum of b and c vitamins and minerals, including creatine monohydrate, seemed to work well. Infact my legs had been failing to recover for a few days when in desperation I decided to add BCAA to my supplementation regieme and as if by magic I had no more problems with my legs recovering. So it seems to me that one can get strong and not healthy at the same time. The other thing I noticed, in my opinion, was that drinking too much alcohol seemed to restrict my bodies ability to access stored fuel. Fasting all day whilst cycling might be an extreme activity but it did help me discover that after a night of drinking beer, the next day my body seemed to be hitting the wall all day. That is the same experience that some long distance runners or cyclist complain of after a few hours of contiuous exercise without eating where there glycogen stores run out and their bodies struggle to find enough sugar/fuel to continue running or cycling (these people are probably not fat addapted). Well for me to experience this within the first half hour of cycling cannot be because I have no glycogen stores since I had eaten plenty of carbs the night before too, it could only be because my body could not access those energy stores. More potential evidence that alcohol may have contributed to my body not being able to access any fuel stores from either sugar or fat after drinking too much the night before, might be that since I can go all day working as a carpenter and joiner whilst intermittent fasting and have done so for 2 years, this might mean that I was fat adapted too. This means that I had some metabolic flexibility which means my body can burn carbs until they run out and then switch to stored fat. This is how I was able to cycle all day without eating on my second trip and hit 70 miles in a single day with ease. However, after drinking too much, by body seemed to not be able to access any stored energy of any kind. However, if I stopped and eat some simple carbs, again within 15 minutes my energy picked up and I was relatively fine to cycle again. This in my opinion was because I was now using the sugar that had just been eaten which had just entered my blood stream and by doing so had just passed the need to access my stored energy either fat or glucose. The reason that is significant is that it means I was not hung over! If I was hung over, then it would have been a different reason why I felt like I had no energy, and eating sugar would have made no difference. This is a reasonable question. I have been trying to improve my eyesight with supplements for a while now. On this trip I brought my supplements. I already knew that some viruses seemed to make my eyes worse. Especially the Herpes simplex virus. However, I was wanting to find out how much exercise played a role in my better vision, (less blurry). For the most part intermitent fasting, keto, and supplements had not offered much in the way of improvements. However, I had noticed my eyesight had varied over time. That is getting less blurry some days and getting more blurry following evenings of over indulgence. It did seem quite clear that something was having a relatively significant impact on my eyes even if I was unable to find it. So after cycling 3 to 5 hours a day on most days for 21 days straight with one day off. I was paying close observational attention to the waxing and waining of my visionary percluliararities. I seemed to notice that after eating a chinese meal in a nice resturant, (where the local chinese people frequented), with a French bottle of red wine and my half a duck (without pancakes), and sauce and onion and cucumber and egg fried rice had no noticable affects on my eyesight the next day out cycling. However, a few days later, I had exactly the same meal, with another French red wine from a take away shop, and for four hours my heart rate went up, because of this I could not get to sleep during this time. My heart was pounding. It would seem I was having a bad reaction to something they had added to my meal. I have noticed this before, but much less pronounced. I am learning that some chinese takeaways may add MSGs (monosodium glutamate) to their foods. This might of been the case on this occassion. Well the next day my eyesight was much worse, more blurry. Although I do not eat wheat, transfats, or too many sulphates, (which can be found in some cheaper wines), and ofcourse almost any product made to be shelfed. I have found similar occurances to my eyes following the days after consuming such food products. That of my eyes getting more blurry. So I wish I could say exercise made a big contribution to improving my eyesight, However, it seems the foods I eat maybe having a more detrimental effect than all the good cycling may bring. So here is a list of potential suspects of additives I believe may have some negative impact on my eyesight. I will endevour to avoid over the next few months and see if this helps with my eyes, (being less blurry).My bike trip to Golspie. The trip itself.So one day I set off from Grays on my bike that had no name but Bob appealed! He weighed in at 46kg including some water, that is nearly seven and a half stone or just over 100lbs! What was I thinking. Bob is a racing bike actually that has been adapted with holes drilled into the forks to help the panniers stay. It has straight forks that are really quick to respond when turning and then they tend to over respond at the same time. So as I set off wobling back and forth all over the road I was secretly wishing Bob would just cave in under the pressure right away instead of waiting until I was hurtling at 40 miles an hour down some lane in Shefield or in the Peak National Park praying and holding on for dear life. I had managed to get in just six training rides before the undramatic departure. At least two of these training rides had happened with a hangover, one of these was a visit to one of my sisters. On seeing me she instantly offered to drive me back home. I said no it is OK I will make it. Then it began to pour with a little thunder and lightning. I was tempted, but my nephew was there listening. He was 15, how could his uncle three training days from leaving for Scotland need a lift. This whole trip was not looking to promising at this stage. There was no backing out now. I had sent a whole bunch of messages through my WhatsApp with messages like, guess what I am going to do at the end of August? Then I attached a google map view of a cycle route from Grays Essex to John O Groats. Unluckily lots of people seemed vaguely interested. Some would say. Why? Others said good luck! But one said how? This appealed to me on some level. It was true how indeed was I to do this. This was not my first attempt at getting to Scotland. As a teenager my friend Paul and I did a test ride to Blackpool. It was horrendous. It did give us something to talk about though. It still gives us a smile whenever we recal the experience. But it was wet, cold, hard work, painful, and we were broke. We even needed to borrow money to pay for the train ride back home. Because we planed the ride would be so easy that coming back by bike was the obvious choice.  Why do it again and this time why do it alone, and with a bike that was heavier, and go further, and just as important how? Now that I have returned from my trip I have not had much to say about the trip. I did meet some lovely people and I did see some spectacular sights. It also expanded my idea of what else could be possible on a limited budget in the future too. Infact even on the trip itself I meet some people that asked how? They did not know the weight of the bike or the little preperation I had, but still some people clapped as I passed them, this was whilst I ascended the ...... in the Peak District and another person asked how could I do this, this was whilst I was resting at a campsite at the end of a long day in ......These questions and applauses did intrigue me. How indeed? Ofcourse there is a famous quote that goes you can indure any how with enough why? My why was partly because I had a question to answer. The question was why does my study suffer if I do some exercise. Or why does my study suffer in the evening if I work hard all day in a physical job. I wanted to do both. Infact I wanted to be able to go to the gym in the morning then work all day and then sit in a pub or McDonallalds and study until it was time to go to sleep. With eight hours sleep being my goal. I think that is a good why? So the next trip will also be by bike and I will again strive to be able to cycle all day and then study or write up my days activities on my blog in the evening after my days efforts and then go to sleep and wake up fully energised ready for the next days adventures. Then ofcourse the next step is to take it one step further and be able to compete at cycling and still function as a human being at the end of that day too. In my opinion this is no small goal, because, in the past when I was just 44 years old, lacking energy all day and feeling knackered all the time and not recovering from all the sleep I was getting was the norm for me. Back then I would even take a nap during the day sometimes dispite not much going on in my life at the time. So I still want to fix the energy equation. Although there have been some small wins along the way I want a lot more.
On my way to Cambridge. I continued wobbling along on my bike Bob dodging parked cars and trying not to swing about too much so cars could avoid me when trying to overtake me. I had purchased a garmin 530 and it had the termerity to assume I wanted the quietest roads possible for my route each day. Even if this meant climbing to the highest point in Essex on Bob! I even had to get off and push Bob because of this. This was a little bit of a problem because I had chosen to wear cycling shoes with cleats. This meant that walking up hill pushing Bob was a slippery endevour. So much so that I would try my hardest in the future to avoid having to get off Bob and push as much as possible, this in its self proved a bit of a challenge going forward. This campsite was at the intersection between Cambridgeshire, Essex and Suffolk. The lady owner of the campsite and part farm felt this was a wonderful thing. Not me. However, the sunset was particularly wonderful. It gave me a chance to use my mobile solar panel which I was hoping to use to charge my phone. When plugged in it did indeed give me a green flashing light indicating something was happening. This place cost just £20 and had no showers, but it did have toilets.  I decided the starting point would be the Wharf Pub in Grays.  This is where I ended up after a days cycling at 3:35pm at the highest point in Essex and it borders three counties. I had to sound pleased about this information. But I had just been pushing my bike uphill for a while, but I had not relised yet that campsites mostly followed this theme.  I think is exactly where I was.
Just outside Cambridge. Climbed up and up again. £25 for the night camping with showers and toilets, but no shop or anywhere nearby to buy anything. The solar panel was put to use again. This women in her late 50s was staying at the campsite with her husband in a campervan explained to me how quite suddenly she began to suffer terrable pains in her abdomin. She said she has been doing the elimination diet for quite a while now. Also after trying the doc nothing as yet has worked. I finally asked her did these problems start after getting her covid jabs? She said curiously yes. This is early morning at the campsite. All my stuff out on the floor still in Essex. 
 By 9am I was right in the center of Cambridge. I was thinking why not go for a punt on the river Cam otherwise known as the river Granta.  Here ofcourse I am cycling past the world famous Cambrigde University. I took this video whilst passing through at 8:35amThen I saw this at 9:44am! What a day!Because the Garmen 530 got it wrong.01.8:43amBecause the Garmen 530 got it wrong.02.8:48amBecause the Garmen 530 got it wrong.03.8:51amSo the Garmen 530 thinks I am superman.2:45pmWe have to love steep hills..1:29pmThe view is always great from the top!Cycle The Lights. It is where the roads are closed to cars and opened up solely to cyclists. Some people were dressed up and most of them carried lots of lights that served an extra purpose than just staying legal. I found a local indian which was delicious and I walked down to the tower and had a look around. It was lovely to revisit Blackpool. Blackpool cycle of lightsThe hills are beautiful we love a bit of heather.10:53amThe hills. This one is nearer Edinburgh and was taken at 11:25amToday I arrived in Edinburgh early enough to get settled into my room where I got locked in my toilet. Luckily enough I am a carpenter so I was able to get out. I dismantled the toilet lock enough so that no one else would get locked in. Then I decided to take the advice of my friend Paul and climb up to Arthurs seat. Well it was not raining when I started, but as I passed the Scottish Houses of Parliament I could see some clouds rolling in. As I walked up one of many long winding roads to Arthurs Seat. I could not help but notice some dark clouds moving in. I could only hope that cold weather did not follow the clouds too. Luckily enough it did not get too cold. However, thunder and lightning and lots of rain did!video at Arthers seat.. This deer was dead already. Probably killed by a car. Such a beautiful creature.3:11pmA lovely blue sky day near Pitlochry. 8:35am
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