Here's a quick tip for the athletes who want to measure every aspect of their body's performance to get the most out of their training time. And lets be honest, who doesn't!?

You know how if you ride hard for a certain period of time without eating you eventually get what riders the world over call the dreaded bonk ('le bonk du dread' if you are in France!). We'll how about being able to actively measure it during a ride or on a turbo session? Knowing the correlation between how you are feeling and the measurement of blood sugar at 15 minute intervals will shed some important information on how long you can ride before bonking and also how much you need to eat to restore your blood sugar levels to normal levels. You can even measure how long certain gels or energy drinks take to work their magic and plan accordingly.

If anything just having the numbers to hand will help keep your mind focussed on eating and drinking the optimum amount on a ride and keep le bonk du dread safely at bay.

And all for the price of a cheap blood sugar monitor used as used by diabetics the world over.

Combine it with a powermeter and you can even work out a correlalation for your body between how you are feeling, what your blood sugar level is and how many watts you can sustain over a given interval. You'll be amazed at what you can learn about yourself using these simple tools.

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