Florida 500 – (minus 5 days)

Why pick the Florida 500 to ride. Well for one thing the route passes right past our house. In fact, the house is almost exactly halfway along the route and we will be able to use it as a rest stop during the race. Another good couple of reasons are, it’s very flat and the…

February 15, 20250Comments

ByChris Edgerton

Rides

The Florida 500 (minus 6 days and counting)

The Florida 500. Well it’s actually 530 miles but who is going to argue about 30 miles. My next cycling adventure starts in a week's time. I’m racing (well, riding against myself, the none stopping clock, the road and the weather) 530 miles from Jacksonville to Key West. The official time limit is 5O hours and…

February 14, 20250Comments

ByChris Edgerton

Health

Your Health – Your Choice

After Psycho I spent some time getting all of my health issues sorted. I took a bit more control over things myself rather than just do whatever doctors prescribed. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m totally in admiration for doctors, surgeons and nurses, I was one myself, and believe what medicine can do today is…

February 9, 20250Comments

ByChris Edgerton

Pedalling Thoughts Uncategorised

Psycho to Psycho

After Psycho in October 2023, I was feeling pretty good. I did however pick up a chest infection, probably due to the cold night air riding through the night. It didn’t seem to be a problem at first. Over the next four months however, I seemed to constantly have chest, allergy or stomach infections. Each…

February 9, 20250Comments

ByChris Edgerton

Rides

Psycho 48. (October 2023)

Psycho 48. (October 2023) Like a lot of Endurance Cycling events , Psycho has a few different categories to choose from, 48, 24 and 12 hours. A 100 mile race and the one that I chose to enter, an “Open” category, which gave me the choice to do as much or as little riding as…

January 30, 20250Comments

ByChris Edgerton

Health

Chemo Christmas

On November 30th 2022, a couple of months after dragging myself and my bike from Vancouver up to Whistler Village, I was at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fl, ready to start six months of chemotherapy. Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia is rare lymphoma which basically (in my case) is a steady increase of a protein produced in the…

October 12, 20240Comments

ByChris Edgerton

Rides

Whistler RBC Granfondo Forte 2022

Leaving for Seattle/Vancouver, I wasn’t sure how to feel. I was looking forward to finally taking on the challenge of the RBC Whistler Granfondo Forte I had set myself earlier in November 2021. Yet, I still wasn’t totally sure if I was ready for this ride. I still hadn’t ridden 100 miles in one ride…

October 12, 20240Comments

ByChris Edgerton

Pedalling Thoughts

Pedaling Thoughts

What is a blog actually? What’s it for? Why do one? Just a few of the questions I have been asking myself whilst spending hours on my bike with only me to talk to. When I decided to first make a blog for my ride across America, it was really aimed at my few friends and…

August 27, 20220Comments

ByChris Edgerton

Pedalling Thoughts

What’s in a name?

My new bike Before any of you worry about my relationship with Irma, she is great and now sits comfortably in my Zwift training pain cave. We ride for hours together in a virtual world of mountains, deserts and city streets. This feels like the perfect place for my trusty steed now, after our long…

August 16, 20220Comments

ByChris Edgerton

Pedalling Thoughts

Zwifting!

What is Zwift? Who are Zwifter’s? Where the hell is Watopia? Some of the questions I had when I decided to look into the world of virtual cycling. I became interested in this indoor world of cycling for a number of reasons. It seemed it would be a good option for my interval training from my…

August 12, 20220Comments

ByChris Edgerton