Back to TGP ride! And back on statins

BIKE probably a squeak under 20 miles in 1:20
COMMUTE 9.4 miles

I started the chatter about the Monday and Tuesday events, but didn't seem to be getting any traction from the group to start so early. Happily BE sent an email last week to get the ball rolling, I jumped on for sure.

So up today at 4:30am for a 6am ride. Sun-up at 6:38. It rained all night so it was wet and foggy but wonderful and warm. I had all my lights ready to go, didn't have to fumble around and no running late. Arrived on time in the dark. With a somewhat upset tummy. Again.

BE and I rode conservatively the first loop, and sometime in the 2nd loop it was just all the sudden light out, BE said it was "like someone just hit the switch", haha! Still foggy with the mist under the flowery trees. So when BE cut out at 2.5 loops I just had to continue to finish the third.

This was my first Monday ride since last August, the day after Sunset Hills Tri and before the heart attack took me out for the season. So this was like my Return To Biking. Aside from the half century I did two days ago! I'm still so happy with that ride, some nice speed put on at the end. I've been craving that. I think I'm fast, but then I think about SO who probably coasts at 22 mph. And can do a decade (haha, if it isn't I think that should be a cycling term, you know, like a century?!) anway.... he could ride miles and miles + at that pace. I did 3-4. Patience. Baby steps, like he says to me.

Back at the house, still stomach upset and still ate a meal. I felt better energy but Oooooof the tummy upset still going and it's 8 hours later.

I'm slipping a bit on the SCD reset, not 100% committed yet. But after days like today, I could  get closer to 100%. I ate oats and some rice, of course, because I just can't learn.

I got a reply back from the lipidologist -- pretty much said that my cholesterol being that high on a plant-based diet suggests "genetic predisposition" and yes I should start a statin regimen. Ordered a creatinine kinase blood test to look for muscle damage, awaiting results. Do I start the statin tonight? On the 8th of 8pril?