After work I hopped onto the Jubilee line and went to Decathlon at Surrey Quays and acquired an Oxelo 7XL with duel suspension and oh boy am I glad I did as it's such a fun thing to ride and the suspension really does make a difference.
After a quick text to my brother, who has the same scooter, I set off to meet him from work in Greenwich with the plan to scoot home to Woolwich Common from there along the Thames path.
About half way between Greenwich and the O2 I hit my first glitch - I'd only eaten a 204 calorie lunch and that was six hours beforehand, thus I proceed to have the worst hypoglycaemic episode I've had since being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, my vision almost completely shut down in what I can best describe as a sparkling whiteout fashion.
Since my weight loss I've got out of the habit of carrying sugary emergency food as my diabetes has been so much better, this turned out to be a major error today as I was in the middle of nowhere and on the brink of "falling over", I needed a sugary drink and food urgently!
I managed to stumble my way almost to some shops and despatched my brother on ahead with a crisp twenty pound note to purchase full fat coke and dairy milk chocolate, upon the coke and chocolate touching my tongue I was instatainiously back to normal; slightly annoyingly my first half a bar of chocolate in 200 days wasn't a thing to savour rather than my saviour, along with the quarter bottle of coke.
So the moral of this story is: urban scooters are an amazingly fun form of exercise, but if you're planning a five mile plus stint on one make sure you've eaten enough calories, especially if you're on medication that's designed to drive you're blood sugar down when you don't really need to be taking it anymore!
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