Rapha Festive 500

Zwift race on Tuesday evening woke up with rather swollen knee yesterday, eased off a bit this morning but a bit of a concern so will have to monitor over the next few days.

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GrimAF

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So glad you’re enjoying this self inflicted ‘challenge’ @Poet

Puts a smile on my face every day.

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Everybody loves a Christmas quiz, yeah?
Here’s mine :see_no_evil:

What’s wetter?

A) An otters pocket
B) Cardi B’s WAP
C) Cheshire Lanes

:rofl:

Cut todays ride short by about 20km :see_no_evil:
Couldn’t face the uphill finish which I’d already done at the end of Tuesday’s ride.

90km 27.4kmh
198W NP / 179W AP
128bpm ave / 151bpm max

410km / 500km done in four days.
All solo.
Group ride tomorrow. TFFT

Deffo not doing this again next week :roll_eyes:

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At least try to look as if you’re enjoying it. Might encourage a few more of us…or not :rofl:

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:see_no_evil:
Look at the amount of rain on my glasses.
There was zero enjoyment today.

I made up the route on the fly, missed a turn and ended up stuck in traffic in town, watching my average speed fall :sob: :triumph:

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Pretty sure I won’t be finishing this this year, weather isn’t looking great for longer outside rides, and unlike last year I can actually run so won’t be as keen to sit on the Wattbike in the garage. Also got a race on NYD so will probably need to take it easy on NYE.

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Hardmoors?

Get it done outside.
I’ve had so much fun so far.
It’s not been a total slog.
Especially after all my summer IM training rides were done in the rain/hail/snow.

I love weather, me.

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Yes, Hardmoors 15. Going on the weather forecast it’s going to be a bit boggy I think on the coastal part of the CW.

I don’t like weather, cold or rain!

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That’s my secondary schools sponsored walk route :rofl::man_facepalming:t4:

But we started in Gods Own Town, obvs :innocent:

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The race should start there, I think it’s back to the original route unless they are changing again.

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COMPLETED IT MATE :clinking_glasses::tada::partying_face:

502km in 5 days.

Here’s a smile @mw22

Also some decent power numbers on the group ride today :see_no_evil::rofl:

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With that smile, and the little bottle of champers, are you thinking maybe doing it again next week doesn’t sound so bad?

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Ha ha ha :see_no_evil:

Maybe :roll_eyes:
But I need to paint the turbo room.
Plus the bike needs some maintenance.

And I’ve covered just about every flat road I know, so I’d have to head east into the Peaks.
Which would be abysmal.

So head is saying no.

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To quote R. Kelly (which isn’t something I thought I’d say today)

But my body, my body, is telling me yeah…

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I’m not sure I’m going to get it done this year. Chalked up a poor 60kms today.

Planned on 100 but the rain and hunger led me to binning it off.

Not eaten today so I’m off to Tescoes to stuff my face

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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, actually I love it:

“500 kilometres. Eight days. 24th-31st December.”

:wink:

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Yeah, I know.
@gingerbongo said I could start 4 days early.

I said the same to @jgav above.

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I’ll let you off then :joy:

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This is the way

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