100-Mile Paddle Plans

Plans for the second Sea Peptide Salties adventure are coming together nicely. In late June/early July we will travel to Wilmington, North Carolina to begin our Stand Up Paddle adventure.

Each day we will paddle for three to four hours in the morning, stopping for a nice lunch.

Then we will paddle for a few more hours to our stop for the night. After a hot shower at a local hotel we will be off to explore the town and eat a great meal in a local restaurant. Then our warm beds will welcome us as we rest up for the next day.

Each day we will get to see different seaside towns and explore a different part of the Intracoastal Waterway. We will test our blood sugar together and experience the camaraderie that comes from working towards an adventure of this magnitude.

But the adventure won't start in June when we board our flights. It will start the day we finalize our team and we begin to discuss training strategies and blood sugar strategies. It will come as we all have a fresh new look at what it takes to stay in good health not just to stave off long-term complications down the road, but to reap the rewards in the short-term.

By working hard to take care of ourselves, we will train harder and stay healthier. By focusing our attention on preparing for this adventure, our overall care will benefit.

So will you join us on this journey? We would love to have you on the team.

If you are interested, it would be great if you could let me know by filling out an application at bit.ly/spsupapp . It's nothing formal. Just a way for me to see who's intereste

If you don't want to paddle, but still want to be a part of the team, we will be bringing a photographer to get amazing footage of our adventure. An application for that is at www.bit.ly/spspjapp .

If you know anyone who might be interested in joining us, would you be kind enough to let them know. You could also post on your social media sites.

Sea Peptide SUPers Application

We are gearing up for another huge trip. This time we will be Stand Up Paddling 100 miles in the Intracoastal Waterway from Wilmington, North Carolina to Beaufort, North Carolina. And we are looking for some amazing people to join the team. Are you up for a year of preparation that will help you focus on your diabetes care and push your training to a new limit? We are also looking for a great media maven who will work with us to record our adventure through photos and video. Applications will be available September 26. But if you want to get your hands on one sooner than everyone else, you can join the Sea Peptide Salties News List below. You will be the first to see the application and get in the front of the line for this amazing adventure.

A View of Something

I finally went back to the pool last week. I wanted to test out how the new Untethered Regimen would do in the pool. I was hoping it would fix the long-time post pool highs I had been struggling with for the last six months.

I woke up early, ate a good breakfast, and drove to the pool with Tony. I was planning on doing a 2500 meter swim. After months of doing 6000 meter swims, a 2500 should have been simple. I scanned my card at the gate and walked in.

The moment I saw the pool, my heart sank. My muscles got tired and there was nothing I could do to fix them. I was having a hard time stomaching the thought of putting my head down to stare at the bottom of the pool for an hour straight.

In training for the Swim Around Key West, I swam more than 100,000 meters. That's a very long way when all I had to look at is the bottom of a white pool. Sure, music helps, but it is still too much time looking at nothing.

Maybe it was because I had some high blood sugars overnight. Maybe it was because I had begun running (even though I hate it) and was taxing new muscles. Maybe it was because I was still not recovered from my race. Or maybe it was because without an impending race, I have little motivation to torture myself again like that.

I still love swimming, but it might be a while before I can do long sets like I used to. I think I will wait a few more months to try that again.