Episode #396 - Ed Riggs (Phys Ed)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
We have Ed Riggs on the show today. Ed hiked the AT in 2013 and had to face some severe health issues on the way. In fact, he had to leave the trail and come back the following year to get it completed.
He also faced the dilemma many of us encounter while we're out there; keeping the family comfortable with what we're doing, without scaring the living daylights out of them!
Ed is inspirational and worth checking out on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOicX70mHbdQbG5pGqqkepw
Unfortunately, due to a complete shambles on my part, I lost this week's recording with Joanne Flagg, but we do hear from Jessica Lang-Wright, who is heading south after her triumph on Katahdin last week.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we taught the walk with shows by hikers |
| 0:05.3 | about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, |
| 0:24.0 | joins Steve and his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.4 | Hey guys, thanks for coming back to the podcast. |
| 0:36.0 | You found Mighty Blue on the Airplanchion Trail, |
| 0:38.1 | the ultimate midlife crisis, and I'm your host, Steve Adams, or Mighty Blue. Each week, we have a main guest on the show, |
| 0:44.6 | and I tend to scour Facebook or get recommendations for most of my main guests, yet a few weeks ago, |
| 0:50.6 | I offered a link for you, our listeners, to come on the show and tell your story. |
| 0:54.8 | As you know, everybody who's undertaken this journey has their own utterly unique story on how |
| 1:00.3 | they got on when they hit the AT. Well, we've had several takers on that offer and today we have |
| 1:05.5 | our first guest from that new intake. And by the way, two of you recently messaged me as part |
| 1:10.1 | of that intake and I promise |
| 1:11.3 | you'll be hearing from me shortly. I haven't forgotten you. Today though I'm chatting with Ed Riggs |
| 1:16.3 | or Fizz Ed who started his 80 journey in March 2013 the year before I set out in 2014. |
| 1:23.1 | Ed's is another of those almost mind-boggling stories when the hiker has to face so much more than |
| 1:29.1 | just the trail. We're going to hear from Ed in a moment. Now, our mighty blue glass of 23 |
| 1:35.6 | is down to just two members, but I'm afraid we're only hearing from one of them today. I recorded |
| 1:41.2 | giant flag on Tuesday morning, save the recording in the place I always saved those recordings, then stupidly I deleted it and started editing last week's recording of Giant. |
| 1:53.7 | The penny dropped when I was about 10 minutes into the recording. |
| 1:57.6 | That should probably worry me actually that it took 10 minutes to realise because I thought |
| 2:01.6 | that sounds familiar it was it was in last week's show I'm so sorry and I'm afraid we'll |
| 2:07.9 | have to wait until next week for Joanne to catch us up with how she's doing spoiler alert |
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