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Jarral R.

Gunnison, Colorado
I live a very active lifestyle with Type 1 diabetes in Gunnison Colorado at 7750ft. I participate in many endurance activities such as the Leadville 100 mountain bike race and Grand Traverse Ski race from Crested Butte to Aspen. I play in the mountains skiing, biking, hiking among other... Full Bio
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Jarral's Long Awaited Tour Divide Gear List! by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking As all of you regular readers of this fine bit of literary brilliance must have been wondering is what is this punk going to carry on this reeeeaaaaalllllly long race? As ... Read on »
Living on a thin line and not. by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking The Tour Divide is a long race. Maybe a bit more involved than the Colorado Trail Race, CTR, that I did last summer. The CTR  is much shorter and frankly I was worried abo ... Read on »
Jarral's Miracle Cure (Tour Divide secret weapon) by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking This past week during spring break we took the kids down toSt. David, AZ which is just east of Tucson to play with my parents. It ofcourse had been warm dow ... Read on »
Two boys and fundraiser for type 1 research update by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking Well you may know that I started a fundraiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Research foundation through the following link http://www.crowdrise.com/RaceTheTourDivideforDia ... Read on »
Riding in the winter in Gunnison CO and big projects. by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking We've had a warmer than normal winter so far and less snow also. This meant that I have been riding my bike a bit and not skiing much. It is actually the first time in man ... Read on »
Tour Divide 2012 by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking A friend, Sean Rainsford, from New Zealand with diabetes had ridden the Tour Divide (TD) as a two year tour a few years ago and stopped by our house. That put the idea in ... Read on »
Into the VAPOR! by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking It's raining now. It was raining two weeks ago. One week ago a high pressure moved in and shoved the rain down to the four corners south west of here. One week ago the m ... Read on »
Colorado Trail Race "It's the final countdown!"--come on sing along! by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking This is the 4th and final part of my Colorado Trail Race Saga for part 1 click here for part 2 click here for part 3 click here . I finally fell into a deeper sleep so ... Read on »
Colorado Trail Race Day 3. by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking This is Part 3 of several long posts of my Colorado Trail Race Adventure.  For Part 1 preview go here . For Part 2 Days 1 and 2 go here . For Part 4 go here . Day ... Read on »
Colorado Trail Race Day 1 and 2 by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking This is Part 2 of several long posts of my Colorado Trail Race Adventure.  For Part 1 The race preview go here . For Part 3 Day 3 go here .  For Part 4 the final countd ... Read on »
Colorado Trail Race Part :1 Preview by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking OK so here's the deal..... I took along a cheap camera from the store and this silly thing had this stuff called film in it. This film apparently can't be attached to a co ... Read on »
The most amazing, death defying, extreme backcountry mountain bike race you will ever behold! by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking Note to reader; some of the following may be knowingly told as a half truth or even complete fabrication. Some will not. This was also written after a trip to the Circus Wor ... Read on »
Trail work and Colorado Trail Race Preparation by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking Last Sunday, June 12, we (All four of us) headed up to Segment 18 of the Colorado Trail in the Cochetope Dome area to walk some of the trail with friends and make sure it ... Read on »
Hundred Miles of Nowhere by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking Anne has been reading a lot of blogs lately--hey she reads fast..... One she reads pretty regularly is www.fatcyclist.com . She doesn't even really ride a bike excep ... Read on »
GRRRRRR Growler IV May 29th 2011 by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking My arse is oozing..... OK you may ask why is my arse oozing? It's because of that Dave Freak'n Wiens. And how does Dave have anything to do with this? It's the Original Gr ... Read on »
Elk Mountain Grand Traverse? 2011 Off the couch.... by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking When the van dropped me off at the house on Sunday, Anne had left a note and was at the city pool with the kids. I was hungry and a little car sick all at the same time fr ... Read on »
Anything exciting going on? by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking Well I just read my description of this blog at the top and thought it was kind-of funny as I didn't sign up for the Grand Traverse ski race this year and I didn't get into ... Read on »
Some CGM results and how to fix your reed switch in your wireless computer. by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking I've just completed my third week of using the Dexcom 7 continuous glucose meter. So far the values are mostly in the ballpark with my glucose meter. At least within 20%. Wh ... Read on »
10 km classic ski race and Dexcom 7 CGM update. And everyone is an expert! by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking This morning Becky left a post on my Facebook wall. "You doing the race in CB? Give me a call." So Yeah I was thinking about it. What time did we start? I hadn't classic ski ... Read on »
New gizmos and too much Fe? by Jarral R. Posted in: Blog Posts in Biking Over the past few years I've been going to the health fairs and getting my blood drawn and tested for normal type things as it was covered by work and then getting the optio ... Read on »