The Rapha Festive 500

Ha! Happy day!

I'm a hundred miles in so far, pretty happy with that.

wow beautiful.

take a slug from whatever is in that flask, life is shitty sometimes :)

Yeah hot coffee was a godsend. Validates my constant failure to pack light in winter.

110km up this morning, 234/500. Too cold for pictures! Not even the silk liners could save my fingers today..
Not hugely enthusiastic about the remainder given the weather is supposed to be getting worse.

Unwound itself?

Not exactly but it’s slackened off and moving side to side. Plus the nds bearing is coming out of the frame. It’ll be something I did during install most likely, or something from riding a couple of hundred metres with the bb under water on Xmas eve.

Right on cue:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/london-high-streets-funding-boost-b507139.html

Let's hope it's not Monopoly money. :)

Ralpha

Very good, nice revenge for them not giving you a patch. :)

Managed 120kms this morning collecting some voleviewer squares north of Southampton and the new forest. There was ice and tomorrow it’ll be hurricane.

Just my second ride with gps directions from my iPhone via strava route planner. It’s alright it had me going on all sorts of little paths and dead end roads (for cars) through the back end of Southampton an area I don’t know at all. It doesn’t do turn by turn instructions, as far as I can see, just a dot on a line, but that was fine only went wrong a couple of times.

274/500

Also just passed 14500 miles for the year, which is a record for me!

Wow, 14,500 miles in a year is truly incredible - well done you!

Thanks, not traveling for work has been a big part of it

Great work, what’s your max square and cluster now?

269km down...

Starting to enjoy road riding again.

No improvement on Max square count currently unfortunately. This was more just filling in some local ish gaps in and around Southampton.

I’m 5 squares away from 21x21 but there at opposite corners of the north side of the square and represents about 170 miles of riding lol. I might have a go at a couple of them on Tuesday if the weather holds out.

How your square hunting going?

Planning a route on strava with the veloviewer plug brilliant.

Allegaert: https://www.strava.com/activities/4520035910

I’m at 19x19, 620 max cluster.
I have my north east corner to fill in but it’s north of the river and few crossing options.

543m of elevation 😂

A total of 0km today and have opened a beer. Telling myself that I work better under the pressure of a deadline

I like to hit them where it hurts.

Ah the BB. Right I thought so. Is it a weird thread? Like Italian threaded BBs that often unscrewed because they didn't reverse the threads on the NDS.

144k (sadly this was the 23rd)
Dec 24: 154k climage
Dec 25: 76k climage
Dec 26: 43k of flat, recovery. Spine thankful.

227km to go

some voleviewer squares

You travel underground? :)

Hahaha, did more elev than that in today's 40k! I need to move to Belgium.

But they want to suffer!