The Rapha Festive 500

Kelvedon Hatch might be a decent spot for a meet. (see my route in previous post (might be utter shit))

Spreadsheet done with 228 miles so far
24th: http://www.strava.com/routes/1219714
28th: http://www.strava.com/routes/1219766

Need another 85 miles .. possibly in single ride but I am out of ideas for somewhere flat .. if I dont manage to draw up a route will mostly just do 3x richmond > box hill > home which is about 85 for me. There is a Hertfordshire loop that I used to do which is an option but really dont want to ride through London much.

Anyone keen on either of those rides? I have a mate riding with me to Blue Egg on 28th .. more the merrier :)

Classic. Only you would make a spreadsheet for this.

I'm out, knee went apeshit 45k into Sunday's ride and in the interests of my long term well-being I'm gonna take Christmas off cycling and go see Scherrit in mid-Jan

I love a good spread

filth

Festive 500 last year was when my knee and back problems flared up badly, and has lead to a year of on-off riding, physio and bike fitting.

However, I can manage the problem now, my fitness is building back up again and I recon I'm going to crush this one in 4 rides and then focus on training for the racing come the start of the season.

Finish off a pretty poor 2014 with some serious riding and start 2015 correct!

What are the dates for this?

500 beers, right?

24.-31. I reckon

Free compression sock.

My bike is packed.

Ta. Might skip it. Dunno.

Might do it on MTB. Anyone got slicks they want rid of?

Bit more interesting

http://www.strava.com/routes/1251488

Nice one! Will edit the original.

First 3 days on MTB. No slicks. Might have to do some on turbo ( n.b. no manual uploads allowed) Mainly early morning efforts. On the look out for black ice.

amey,

I may well join you for that ride on the 28th if that's ok. I'll confirm nearer the time. What time would you be heading off?

TTM

Last year there was a running version of the F500- anyone spotted one this year? If not I'll just pick 35 miles as a target and run it at the same time.

I happened to see my YTD running milage on Strava sitting at ~850km the other day. I think I'll try and crack 1,000 before 2015.

12% all rain, all warm http://app.strava.com/activities/232371968

Looks like I can cycle after all. Bike turned up nearly a day after myself.

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Well, that's the first of my Festive 500 rides done and I can't remember the last time I cycled into such a brutal headwind.

On a descent I would normally be doing over 50 mph on, I was having to drop to the little ring and pedal just to keep forward motion at about 15 mph.

Still, it was quite a good start and I've got 117 km / 23% out of the way.

I've joined the LFGSS club on Strava so hopefully other members can see my rides.

Rode to work, realised someone had stolen my work trousers, rode home. Cunce.

KOM Club says no.

I've had a mileage goal of 1000 miles all year and I was bang on target until I had to sit the last two weeks out injured. So I'm aiming to hit that.