Chris Edgerton

Cycling to Beat Lymphoma, Cycling With Lymphoma, Cycling For lymphoma, Cycling to feel alive, Just Cycling.

98 articles published

It’s all about your “Altitude”.

So I am at it again. I don’t tend to post or keep this blog, when I am not working towards a big ride or challenge. To be honest, I always felt like who cares what I am doing or thinking about day-to-day. Anyway we are back for a big year. Yes, I will be…

ByChris EdgertonJuly 31, 20250Comments

Just a thought Pedalling Thoughts

On reflection

What do you think about all day? Not probably something you think about that often. Reflective practice was something I learned during my nursing training. Its definition is: - Reflective practice is a process where individuals think critically about their actions and experiences to gain insights and improve their professional skills. It involves analyzing past experiences to enhance future…

ByChris EdgertonFebruary 17, 20250Comments

Cycling Rides

Florida 500 – race week Monday

So, we have one crewman here, Tim. However, Joe is at this moment stuck at Ottawa Airport after his flight was cancelled. Sounds like a horrendous day, sat in a plane on the runway for 5 hours going nowhere. Will wait to hear what/why the airline thought that an ok plan, when he gets here. Marc…

ByChris EdgertonFebruary 17, 20250Comments

Just a thought

What’s in a Name?

People have pet names for things, especially pets obviously. I’ve had dogs in my life called: Wink, Billy, Ben and Mo. Cats named Smudge, Chi Chi, Harriet (Hatty) and Herbydatious (Herby). For some reason I never named a car but I have given my bikes names. I think they are a bit more personal to…

ByChris EdgertonFebruary 17, 20250Comments

Cycling Rides

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…

ByChris EdgertonFebruary 15, 20250Comments

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…

ByChris EdgertonFebruary 14, 20250Comments

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…

ByChris EdgertonFebruary 9, 20250Comments

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…

ByChris EdgertonFebruary 9, 20250Comments

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…

ByChris EdgertonJanuary 30, 20250Comments

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…

ByChris EdgertonOctober 12, 20240Comments

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…

ByChris EdgertonOctober 12, 20240Comments

Pedalling Thoughts

Pedaling Thoughts

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ByChris EdgertonAugust 27, 20220Comments

Pedalling Thoughts

What’s in a name?

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ByChris EdgertonAugust 16, 20220Comments

Pedalling Thoughts

Zwifting!

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ByChris EdgertonAugust 12, 20220Comments

Pedalling Thoughts

The Training Cycle. (A game of snakes and ladders)

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ByChris EdgertonJune 27, 20220Comments

Pedalling Thoughts

Sebring 24

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ByChris EdgertonMay 30, 20220Comments

Featured Pedalling Thoughts

Back in the saddle

After I crossed the finish line at Boston in 2018, and dipped my bike into the Atlantic, in the same way I’d left the Pacific, having ridden “every foot and inch’ across a continent, life returned back to its previous normal. As life changing as that experience was, from that moment in June 2018, until July…

ByChris EdgertonApril 16, 20220Comments

Uncategorised

Irma is Home

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ByChris EdgertonJuly 16, 20180Comments

Pedalling Thoughts

It Takes a Village – Guest Post by Deirdre

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ByChris EdgertonJuly 8, 20180Comments

Pedalling Thoughts

Independence Day

[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.16" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}"]So the question everyone has been asking me now, “what’s next?”. The obvious answer is rest. For those who know me well, play some golf. As far as cycling I have no idea. There is a part of me now that…