# My 2025 bike ride - C&O Canal + Great Allegheny passage
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/my-2025-bike-ride-c-o-canal-great-allegheny-passage/15435
**Category:** Sports & Exercise
**Tags:** bike
**Created:** [September 1, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/my-2025-bike-ride-c-o-canal-great-allegheny-passage/15435 "2025-09-01T20:14:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@bostrav59](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/bostrav59)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/my-2025-bike-ride-c-o-canal-great-allegheny-passage/15435/1 "2025-09-01T20:14:53Z")
I try to do one longer bike ride every year - preferably one that I can take starting on the bike from my house outside of Boston.
This year I’m going to start out on my bike, and take a train down to DC, go to Pittsburgh (about 400 miles) and then take a train back to NY where my kids live. My wife will pick me up there and we’ll go home.
All the discussions about biking and going low are very helpful to me as I prep for this trip. So thanks @Boerenkool[Exercise 1-2 hours after meal - #12 by Boerenkool](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/exercise-1-2-hours-after-meal/15434/12)
My bike friends have told me that I am going the wrong way - I should go Pittsburgh to DC. I’m sure they are right (there is a famous 23 mile hill that I have to climb going this way). But logistics required this route.
I’ll give you a trip report when I’m back - around Sep 16th.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/my-2025-bike-ride-c-o-canal-great-allegheny-passage/15435/2 "2025-09-02T00:52:37Z")
Have fun! Post some pictures, @bostrav59 !
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### Author:  [@TomH](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/TomH)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2025, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/my-2025-bike-ride-c-o-canal-great-allegheny-passage/15435/3 "2025-09-02T11:39:47Z")
The wife and I did the C&O several years back (live outside DC), it was good fun. Sounds like you’re a much more into it than we were, though. Enjoy the scenery while you’re here!
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### Author:  [@Boerenkool](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Boerenkool)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/my-2025-bike-ride-c-o-canal-great-allegheny-passage/15435/4 "2025-09-02T18:51:15Z")
That’s so exciting! It must be beautiful out there.
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### Author:  [@bostrav59](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/bostrav59)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/my-2025-bike-ride-c-o-canal-great-allegheny-passage/15435/5 "2025-09-03T22:47:53Z")
> [@Boerenkool](#):
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> It must be beautiful out there
I’ll let you know.
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### Author:  [@bostrav59](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/bostrav59)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/my-2025-bike-ride-c-o-canal-great-allegheny-passage/15435/6 "2025-09-18T02:18:39Z")
I am back! It was a beautiful 6 days of biking - had great weather and the trail is quite flat.
From a diabetes side - I had some digestive problems with the Metformin (constipation) so I stopped taking it after about 2 days of riding.
It took a few days for me to get onto a new diabetes dosing plan that kept me from going low. Basically eating about 200 sugary calories an hour. I loved those “bakeless” cookies made of peanut butter / oatmeal / sugar / nuts. Also big reeses peanut butter cups.
My insulin use from my pump went down about 20% – I usually change carts every 4 days, and here I kept going for about 5.5 days.
Bike touring is one of those vacations where it takes about 3 days to get in biking rhythm, and then your body feels so good you want to stay in that rhythm. I was sad to get back on the Amtrak from Pittsburgh and head home.
