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Alan44

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The next 5 days or so are going to be 28 degrees or higher, full sun and little breeze, which will sort of knock my 4 mile walks on the head.
Will be out early with the dogs, but that's not a walk for me, it's walk, stop sniff, walk stop poo, walk stop pee.

I do have some dumb bells and resistance bands, so I guess that will have to do for now ??
 
Go out early morning - it was lovely this morning, just pleasantly warm. Nice and sunny, perfect 🙂
 
Apply sunscreen and keep moving! It's when you stop it starts feeling warm 🙂
 
Alan44 said:
The next 5 days or so are going to be 28 degrees or higher, full sun and little breeze, which will sort of knock my 4 mile walks on the head.
Will be out early with the dogs, but that's not a walk for me, it's walk, stop sniff, walk stop poo, walk stop pee.

I do have some dumb bells and resistance bands, so I guess that will have to do for now ??
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It’s not going to be 28c 24/7 though and 28 isn’t a full stop no walking. If you’re keen to keep up your walks I’m certain you can find a way.
 
I was out on the bike this evening, kind of like human powered air conditioning
Will try a little earlier tomorrow morning.
Sensible to have full bottles though.
 
So funny how this varies with what you get used to. For me 28 degrees is ideal - Sprig-time gentle warmth, likely with a hint of almond blossom.

Particularly as I shiver here in mid-Winter huddled from the arctic 12 degrees daytime temp, waiting for the glaciers to start creeping over the hills ...
 
Was nice and warm here. Went out twice with the hound, once early, once late-afternoon. Just stuck to the shady sides of the street.

I did have to top-up glucose a little more through the day, which I put down to the warmer temp.

Look after yourself everyone!
 
Alan44 said:
The next 5 days or so are going to be 28 degrees or higher, full sun and little breeze, which will sort of knock my 4 mile walks on the head.
Will be out early with the dogs, but that's not a walk for me, it's walk, stop sniff, walk stop poo, walk stop pee.

I do have some dumb bells and resistance bands, so I guess that will have to do for now ??
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Move to Scotland: just pleasantly warm here :party:
 
I love the warm when I do not have to work do any household things.

Our house is upside down, its so nice at night it being cooler. Woke up the night before and needed a drink, walked up the stairs to the kitchen in the heat.

Took the dog out before 7am, near a woods so only 3-4 mins on the pavement and then it was so nice in the trees, he had a little paddle. He is missing his two walks a day and playing in the garden with his ball but its just too warm for him.

Just had a heat related hypo, but the HCL seems to be doing its best.
 
CliffH said:
Move to Scotland: just pleasantly warm here :party:
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No thanks, far too cold for me during the winter.
Believe it or not I love the sun and heat, but it's the dogs that don't

Our holidays before the dogs joined us used to be in Fuerteventura, in the south 25 degrees with a cooling Atlantic breeze
 
Alan44 said:
No thanks, far too cold for me during the winter.
Believe it or not I love the sun and heat, but it's the dogs that don't

Our holidays before the dogs joined us used to be in Fuerteventura, in the south 25 degrees with a cooling Atlantic breeze
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It's not too bad in winter: I'm a Londoner and I cope. Apparently it used to be too cold for soft southern sassenach sissies years ago, though, before global warming.
 
We have an outside gig with our band today and it is going to be hot!!!
Glad that they have a gazebo for us, and I will be taking plenty of water as well as a flask of tea (don’t ask me why it works).

My HCL is doing okay but I did get a few extra lows and needed some top up at the early warnings (Thanks @everydayupsanddowns for the changes to alerts and alarms - so much better)
 
It's making me feel sleepy probably because im not sleeping well. Saw dawn just after 3 but will be sad the days will get shorter. Yesterday at 9am I was in an aquafit class in our local lido. It is beside the river and there is usually a breeze.
I find today brings memories. I moved a lot as a child. At 7 I went to school in Amesbury where we learned a lot about Stonehenge a 15 minute walk up the hill. Years later I was the duty solicitor in a coastal court in Hampshire when I saw close to 100 people. The Wiltshire police had arrested so many people at the solstice the cells in south Wiltshire were all full. Same thing happened next year but fewer people and better organised eg take a photo of person arrested with officer who arrested them.
I'll probably have a stroll soon. No dog so my choice when to go,
 
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So glad its supposed to be cooler tomorrow

This heat is not good for me.......hot and humid is not good for angina
 
Done a 5k parkrun this morning. First time running in 15 years. Quite pleased with my modest 38 minutes. Not so hot today in Scotland, so will go out for a walk this afternoon also.
 
Out of the house with the dogs at 6am for an hour, then to the butchers for some BBQ stuff and decided to get a ribeye for breakfast. :D
One of our dogs has sat in the shade outside with us and the other has gone upstairs and won't come down ??

12.30 now and lunch and a film or a doze, whichever comes first
 
I nearly ran out of hypo treatments on a walk late last night due to the heat. I was down to my very last jelly baby having consumed 6, with a couple of miles still to go despite carb loading with some dates before I went out, fully expecting that I would have overdone it and need insulin during the walk.

I had an awful moment of panic when I thought we might have to knock on someone's door at 10pm to cadge some sweets or get onto a road and flag down a passing motorist! It didn't help that Libre showed me as 3.2 with a sloping downward arrow and I was definitely hypo!! Thankfully the panic over having to implement one of those options gave my liver the kick it needed to release a bit of extra glucose to get me back safely with my remaining jelly baby still intact!

I did contemplate testing the "sprinting strategy" to see if that would release glucose but hot humidity and fading light on a rough track through trees with a BG of 3.2 put me off trying that option. 🙄
 
My Smartguard 4 is struggling to cope in the heat.
This afternoon it was showing between 9.7, at 14.45, and 8.7, at 15.50.
Felt hypo so despite the readings did a finger prick test, 31. Annoyingly the HCL system would not accept the finger prick reading. Did a repeat 15 mins later, I'd had an ice-pop and a cereal bar in the meantime, finger prick 3.4 (stable, not rising or falling). This reading was accepted and calibrated. HCL system now catching up and showing a reading of 4.8 which is similar to finger prick test of 4.3.

Anyone else had difficulties with Smartguard during the hot waether?
 
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