HE'S 25kg dripping wet, but ten-year-old Eddie Thompson proved he has a heart the size of Phar Lap after pulling off a feat that has sent experienced riders searching for the record books.
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While most of us were gorging on chocolate over Easter, the Wagga Cycling Club junior was overdosing on adrenaline after crossing two more of Victoria's arduous seven peaks off his bucket list.
After conquering Falls Creek and Mount Buffalo a few weeks ago, the pint-sized dynamo scaled Omeo to Dinner Plain (1412m) on Easter Saturday, before riding up Mount Hotham, (1812m) the next day.
He looks like a strong breeze may blow him off his wheels, but he's determined nothing will stand in his way of riding to the top.
"We don't know how he's done it, some adults can't even achieve what he's done over two days," his coach Cameron Oke said.
"We're not sure if there's any records, but I think his dad Graeme's been trying to have a look to see if a ten-year-old has done any of the seven peaks.
"I wouldn't have said he could do one, but now he's done two in two days."
Thompson began on a balance bike when he was just one before joining the Wagga Cycling club as a six year old, where he race track and road events alongside older sister Georgia.
But the road is his true passion because "it pushes you and it's less boring", and he has his sights set on becoming a professional.
The club embarks on an Easter cycling sojourn to Hotham every year, and dad Graeme said other members of the group began their own ride as Eddie began his second climb in two days, convinced he would abort the mission.
They were wrong.
"He's already talking about the next season which starts in October. He said 'I think I can do Buffalo faster than I did, dad," Graeme said.
"He's asking what he has to do to be a professional cyclist.
Thompson even helps fund his cycling pursuits with his own little business 'Ed's Links'. He cuts off bike chains, cleans them up, attaches them to key chains and sells them.
One of his idols, dual Olympic gold medalist Anna Meares, is the proud owner of one and Eddie has donated $50 of the proceeds to the '400in4' cycle, a 400km ride from Wagga to Sydney which raises money for the burns unit at The Children's Hospital at Westmead.
The junior tour of Canberra and the Goulburn tour are the next challenges on Eddie's agenda.
"He asked why he couldn't do the other three peaks this season, but the season finishes this week so he didn't have time," Graeme said.
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