The Rapha Festive 500

The mince pie thread's been active for ages, so...

i have it on ignore, I refuse to eat that shite

Weirdo

November too early to be putting up my excuses as to why I can't do it this year

Thought I'd give everyone plenty of time to come up with some good ones

Ffs-facepalm.

I finished on NYE2020 with just over 500km, and would imagine I've only ridden a total of about 500 intentional kilometres in 2021. Probs out.

I might do it accidentally, but I won't be aiming for it this year. I got over doing it years ago. Soz Chops

Finally seen a message from those nice Rapha people about this years (2021) Festive 500. Get those legs turning!!!!

hopefully on holiday over Christmas this year for the first time in eons so won't be doing it. Unless covid shits on my holiday plans of course.

tempted to do it on zwift

What's the weather going to be like?

Will there be a '21 reprise?

Just about bearable,
with the right kit.

Last year did it with very mild Covid… this year the motivation hasn’t kicked in…..yet at least.

Think I'll try and enjoy some winter riding this year rather than go for the 500

https://www.strava.com/clubs/757200

In one go?

I will more than likely do it this year.

This'll be the first Christmas and New Years where I'll have three days off for each, so it may actually be fun (considering I've done it previous years while still working a 50 hour week).

Looking forward to all the people moaning about others completing it on the turbo.

It's a marketing campaign ffs.

Oooof, that'd take me about 18 hours...

I think my knees will go after 11 hours, I might join for a few hours but definitely not attempted it in one go because of the injury risk.

fuck no

You can draft behind me if you like ;-)

Would be fun to try it in one ride this year. Going to see what the weather is doing closer to the time.

I'm pretty committed to trying it in one go, and in 24 hours, having told half my sodding club (Islington) and now you lot.

The aim is to start at about 4 pm on the 28th, with a view to completing at sunset (about 4 pm) on the 29th. The current working schedule allows for 21 riding hours, and a buffer of 3 hours for eating, stretching, bike issues etc. That only requires an average moving speed of 24km/h for 21 hrs. The only caveat is the weather, so we'll see how that looks as we get nearer.

Easy enough, so I thought I'd make it harder and do it on a 1km loop just to fuck with my head even more.