Not sure which excuse to try pull out. Could be I’m still at work, that we have our family over for two weeks for first time in two years, or that I’d much prefer 4C over 42C to train in.
But instead, here’s me on Wednesday at the end of 100x100 off 1:30, no aid, in the rain, averaging 1:20. I’m the one with the high elbow, not the ones swinging all over the place 
With goggles pressing on this
Well, they’re all weak.
Better luck next year 
In fairness @Poet, @Chriswim is living in a country where they struggle to finish a word longer than 2 syllables, so I think he’s done alright.
Photoshop experts get on it with this one
@mw22 ?
I finished it yesterday. Mine broke down as-
24th 109km outdoor ride
25th 41km Zwift
26th 50km Zwift
27th 133km outdoors
28th 53km Zwift
29th 115km outdoors
I guess I’ve still got time to do it properly and do another 143km outdoors tomorrow, but the weather forecast looks pretty crap 
Good effort, but can you really afford to let poet come on and call you lame or something as it wasn’t -95c and 1M of snow 
I could probably have got away with riding in all weathers in the past, but Mrs W won’t let me out of the house with my bike if there’s even the slightest hint of rain or ice until the doctor tells me my collarbone is 100% fixed. Hopefully the CT scan next week will tell me that. The ride on the 24th was only the 2nd outdoor ride since the op.
Oh and at 50, I’m over riding in miserable conditions just for the sake of a virtual badge
Haha, yep, once I turned 50 I have gone completely soft and resorted to the dreadmill today! In my defence I was also trying not aggravate my chest\lungs etc. with the cold and damp too soon.
Really isn’t worth the risk these days on ice etc., even the low sun on wet roads is dangerous with the driving abilities of some people.
I’m guessing this is different for women - at 40 I feel like this 
To be fair, I think 40 was probably the beginning of the slide. It was just unfortunate that I had an accident that resulted in my first broken bones and my first proper lay-offs due to injury 3 days after my 50th birthday 
I think I was about 5 when I stopped caring about stickers. Maybe that says something else about me.
Yeah - I’ve got up “late” (dog slept until 0710 
) and need to be back for 10am, so just gonna hop onto a Rapha500 ride after losing some weight
No Rapha500 rides, so doing the Fondo
EDIT: amazing what an 18kg overnight diet does
NEW YEARS DAY: Up at 6am and it’s bucketing it down 
Wrong kit laid out, as forecast wrong, waiting to go on Zwift, gravel will have to wait until tomorrow (when the forecast is utterly FREEZING 
)
Up late. Again.
Body feels knackered.
8 hours in four days + 9 hours walking, too.
I probably managed that in all of December 
Back on Zwift.
On Tempus Fugit
41kph for 2.5W/Kg is hilariously realistic 
Staying on for 67 minutes which will take me to 9hrs in 5 days and 280km ridden (50:50 real/virtual split)
I’m 444km into my “Post” Festive500.
Doing virtual rides makes it an utter piece of pie 
I’ve kept myself on a nice 50:50 split 
Club ride is 56km tomorrow evening, to force me out
Although I’ll probably Zwift early doors, too.
Felt much, much better today.
Body seems to be absorbing the “training”
Right, I’ve had a rubbish year from a cycling and fitness point of view, so I thought I would keep the disappointment going and sign up on Strava for the Rapha Festive 500 and fail to do that, as well.
Christmas is looking a bit quieter, both kids now adults, apparently, so I should be able to find some time to get some long rides in, without annoying the family. Loose plan is a 200k ish on Christmas Eve, starting super early, another 200k on the 27th or 28th, and then the last 100km in the last day or so, depending on weather etc. No Zwift cheating; all old school and outdoors. Bring on the failure!
Might be a Zwift cheat session for me not sure I’ll be running much by then.
I won’t do this until I am certain I want a divorce
Is there a running equivalent?
They’re arguing about the distance here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/AdvancedRunning/comments/18cwlj0/the_running_equivalent_of_rapha_festive_500/
Yes, run 500 km instead.
You don’t have to do it all in one though.
