Edward Pickering
@edwardpickering.bsky.social
Author of Ronde and Yellow Jersey Club
Taiko: https://taikomeantime.rhythmworks.com
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Insta: @edwardpickering
Taiko: https://taikomeantime.rhythmworks.com
Running: http://strava.com/athletes/344738
Insta: @edwardpickering
Me 🤝 Tom Dumoulin
Running the second half of a marathon 11 minutes slower than the first.
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Running the second half of a marathon 11 minutes slower than the first.
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York marathon 3:09:23 | Strava
Tough day at the office. Legs felt iffy from 8 miles, largely held it together to 18 or 19, had to dial it back from 20. But kept running, and didn't totally crack. | Strava
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October 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Me 🤝 Tom Dumoulin
Running the second half of a marathon 11 minutes slower than the first.
www.strava.com/activities/1...
velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-tr...
Running the second half of a marathon 11 minutes slower than the first.
www.strava.com/activities/1...
velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-tr...
This would see my wife getting deported. Fuck Reform and fuck Nigel Farage.
I was looking at Reform's policy again the other day. They're proposing a £60k salary for people on ILR keeping their visa. Which means pretty much every nurse on ILR would be a risk. It's insane.
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
October 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This would see my wife getting deported. Fuck Reform and fuck Nigel Farage.
Reposted by Edward Pickering
On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n
British Politics' Midlife Crisis
Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters
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September 30, 2025 at 6:40 AM
On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n
Truth.
The Editors don't get enough love.
August 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Truth.
74km to go, and the yellow jersey group is down to 13 riders – four Visma, four UAE + five others.
July 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
74km to go, and the yellow jersey group is down to 13 riders – four Visma, four UAE + five others.
Read this piece, and also download Stubbleman's amazing 1:46:43 The Ventoux Trilogy. This may be the most fun I've ever had writing a cycling piece.
Stubbleman's latest work is an ambient three-movement album about the iconic cycling climb of Mont Ventoux and his experience of riding up it
Meandering of the soul - Stubbleman on his Mont Ventoux-inspired album
Stubbleman is the alter ego of music producer Pascal Gabriel, who had a number-one hit in the UK in 1988 with The Theme from S’Express, and has worked with some of the world’s biggest artists, includi...
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July 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Read this piece, and also download Stubbleman's amazing 1:46:43 The Ventoux Trilogy. This may be the most fun I've ever had writing a cycling piece.
There have been more rider/moto interactions involving pieces of cardboard in this Tour than any I can remember.
July 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
There have been more rider/moto interactions involving pieces of cardboard in this Tour than any I can remember.
There will be good days and bad days. Probably more bad days than good ones.
July 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
There will be good days and bad days. Probably more bad days than good ones.
Hello, Pog's into the green jersey as well.
July 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Hello, Pog's into the green jersey as well.
I find the 'Pogačar is vulnerable in week three' narrative mystifying. He's ridden seven Grand Tours, and won stage 20 in five of them. In the other two, he won stages in the final week. Last year he won the final three stages.
July 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I find the 'Pogačar is vulnerable in week three' narrative mystifying. He's ridden seven Grand Tours, and won stage 20 in five of them. In the other two, he won stages in the final week. Last year he won the final three stages.
I’m going on a 3-day cycling trip in the Dolomites for a Rouleur piece.
I’m worried about the amount of flying I/we do, and have resolved to travel sustainably, wherever possible.
So I’m travelling overland from Exeter to Badia, using public transport/cycling. This thread will document my journey.
I’m worried about the amount of flying I/we do, and have resolved to travel sustainably, wherever possible.
So I’m travelling overland from Exeter to Badia, using public transport/cycling. This thread will document my journey.
June 8, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I’m going on a 3-day cycling trip in the Dolomites for a Rouleur piece.
I’m worried about the amount of flying I/we do, and have resolved to travel sustainably, wherever possible.
So I’m travelling overland from Exeter to Badia, using public transport/cycling. This thread will document my journey.
I’m worried about the amount of flying I/we do, and have resolved to travel sustainably, wherever possible.
So I’m travelling overland from Exeter to Badia, using public transport/cycling. This thread will document my journey.
Ignore this. Updated GC has Frigo down to 27th.
Strange old Giro GC. After 15 stages, Rafał Majka in 23rd place overall is closer in time to the pink jersey than he is to Marco Frigo in 24th place.
May 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Ignore this. Updated GC has Frigo down to 27th.
Strange old Giro GC. After 15 stages, Rafał Majka in 23rd place overall is closer in time to the pink jersey than he is to Marco Frigo in 24th place.
May 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Strange old Giro GC. After 15 stages, Rafał Majka in 23rd place overall is closer in time to the pink jersey than he is to Marco Frigo in 24th place.
Call an ambulance... but not for me
May 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Call an ambulance... but not for me
Not surprised he won tbh
May 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Not surprised he won tbh
Please donate generously to my friend and whisky enthusiast Tom in advance of his #GoodbyeLegsRide on Sunday.
#GoodbyeLegsRide update as we’re now just 2 days away: up to £8035 (incl external) of £10k target. Impressively close! Donations open until end of May but hope to see many of you on Sunday for our chaotically good-natured bimble along Exeter quay: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Help raise £10000 to say goodbye to my legs and support 4 important charities – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to say goodbye to my legs and support 4 important charities. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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April 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Please donate generously to my friend and whisky enthusiast Tom in advance of his #GoodbyeLegsRide on Sunday.
Quick #JournoRequest I'm looking for a photographer based in or near the French Pyrenees/Toulouse/Pau for a couple of @rouleurmagazine.bsky.social shoots. DMs are open.
April 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Quick #JournoRequest I'm looking for a photographer based in or near the French Pyrenees/Toulouse/Pau for a couple of @rouleurmagazine.bsky.social shoots. DMs are open.
Quick #JournoRequest for those with experience of combining cycling and rail travel in Europe.
I'd like to get from Exeter to Bolzano by train. With a bike. With the option to get off the bike and ride it once I arrive in Bolzano. Without fannying around with bike boxes etc.
Is this possible?
I'd like to get from Exeter to Bolzano by train. With a bike. With the option to get off the bike and ride it once I arrive in Bolzano. Without fannying around with bike boxes etc.
Is this possible?
April 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Quick #JournoRequest for those with experience of combining cycling and rail travel in Europe.
I'd like to get from Exeter to Bolzano by train. With a bike. With the option to get off the bike and ride it once I arrive in Bolzano. Without fannying around with bike boxes etc.
Is this possible?
I'd like to get from Exeter to Bolzano by train. With a bike. With the option to get off the bike and ride it once I arrive in Bolzano. Without fannying around with bike boxes etc.
Is this possible?
At last, the Flanders TV controller has realised we don't need to see the back markers slowly riding up the Paterberg.
April 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
At last, the Flanders TV controller has realised we don't need to see the back markers slowly riding up the Paterberg.
Absolutely no need for Van der Poel to ride up the Oude Kruisberg on the front, no-handed, taking his jacket off, and still not using the handlebars to turn the 90 degree bend at the top.
March 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Absolutely no need for Van der Poel to ride up the Oude Kruisberg on the front, no-handed, taking his jacket off, and still not using the handlebars to turn the 90 degree bend at the top.
Currently simultaneously holding in my head the two thoughts that Pogačar did an extraordinary, elemental, paradigm-shifting ride today, and also that he made a slight pig's ear of the last 400m.
March 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Currently simultaneously holding in my head the two thoughts that Pogačar did an extraordinary, elemental, paradigm-shifting ride today, and also that he made a slight pig's ear of the last 400m.
Lukewarm take from my comfortable armchair: Pidcock should have cracked on after Pogačar's crash.
March 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Lukewarm take from my comfortable armchair: Pidcock should have cracked on after Pogačar's crash.
Absolutely disgusted by Trump and Vance’s behaviour today. Shameful.
February 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Absolutely disgusted by Trump and Vance’s behaviour today. Shameful.
This beauty landed today!
February 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This beauty landed today!
This is shaping up into a lovely thread of beautiful sunrise/sunset photos.
Stop posting sunrise / sunset photos. Nobody gives a shit and 9 out of 10 are just boring to look at. Yes it's beautiful but the pictures aren't. Just enjoy the beauty of the moment.
January 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is shaping up into a lovely thread of beautiful sunrise/sunset photos.