The Rapha Festive 500

A mere 500k surely not worth doing for you and the other TCR lads and lasses...

I've done it enough times already. I might tow the missus around to help her get to 500 but I can't be arsed. I was thinking about doing 500k on the turbo as a new test just to see how much I hate myself but I've got work, planned training and three days of xmas parties to deal with too so it's not likely.

Did a steady 70k today, been off the bike for a few days with some sort of lung/ chest lurgy.

4 close passes, 2 dangerous pull out from junctions

Merry Christmas

4 close passes, 2 dangerous pull out from junctions

Not bad. That's about average for my 12k commute.

Bastids, I remember a shockingly close pass Christmas Day last year, and I'm not easily shocked.

No excuse. There's fuck all traffic about. D-Lock their faces in. Ho Ho Ho.

First 200 done. Time for food and alcohol now.

Some crazy guy on a fixie did 160km. We were all wearing wintervests, long pants and gloves. He showed up in jeans shorts and a sweater. No gloves.

Multi task.
Laptop in front of the turbo for work and cycling at the same time. Auchentoshan in the bidon means it's always a party. #yuletidefun

Saw a few out today in shorts, was 3 degrees where I am.

Saw another guy doing laps, quick look on his strava shows his biggest monthly ride this year is 22 hours in total so he could be struggling

Legs out today, knees were a bit cold with the puddles and road spray but eventually fine. However, my freewheel started screaming like a banshee receiving a non-consensual rectal examination at roughly 68kph. Had to pedal the rest of the 40k home like I was fixed. Think it might be the death of those wheels.
99.7km in the bag though.

My biggest Strava ride until this morning was 58km.

Not everything or in my case anything happens on strava.

2x20s sweetspot so they're just hard enough I can't really concentrate on much else.

My happy hardcore / 90s rave collection means all my turbo workouts are parties. :)

(39.623 km)

So I managed 225km of my planned 250km before I came off on some ice and smacked my head. Think I’m ok but I cracked the helmet so got my dad to come pick me up!

Pity as I was feeling pretty good and would def have got home during daylight (left just after 4am). It all seemed quite easy after climbing over Lammer Muir at 5am, 17% gradients and my bottles turned to slush. Weather was glorious, but sub zero most of the day.

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Ride out from Aberdeen to Braemar and back via Alford for me. 202km done Avg temp -2 deg C.

Still defrosting my toes.

Fife Arms for Mac and Cheese?

Nasty. Be careful, concussion isn’t always obvious and is nasty. Check yourself out, sounds like you took a big hit.

I’m def going to take it easy and monitor it. My sister is a doctor and she also used to play a lot of rugby so I’m taking her advice seriously.

Ended up starting off nicely with a foggy 199km.couldnt see more than 10m for the first five hours. Feeling smug and clever for picking a flat route.

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Sounds like you’re set. Hope you’re ok!

Ha, both types of qualification there.

Yeah I know it's easy to be judgemental, at least he's out there giving it a go.

laps of a park or laps of lake etc take some special motivation

Was meant to do an extra 20km tonight out to my parents but ice stopped play.

First day and 60km behind. Had worse starts to it I guess.

245km today doing loops in Fife on the fixed.

The guys I was with managed 370km while I slept in the van.

50 miles planned tomorrow morning so a good start considering I’m still working a 60 hour week.

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Nice one!

I’m still frozen too.

64km this morning. Almost certainly won't get the 500 as going to a family gathering (in theory without bike) from the 28th-31st, but you never know. Already defeated last year's 61km for the whole 8 days, but a long way off my successes from 2016 and 2015.