“ Though the challenge was created on the icy roads of southern England, the Festive 500 has become a global phenomenon with participants in every corner of the world. This year, it enters a new world altogether as kilometres covered on Zwift count towards your Festive 500 total for the first time. There really is no excuse not to get involved.”
Bollocks.
I’ve got permission & as we’re not visiting any relatives this year 
I may be in.
I’ll not be going out if the roads are icy & I may head over to Cheshire to flatten some rides. I’m allowed to during those 5 days, right?
I don’t Zwift.
I’ll probably have a go, depends how it goes the first few days. It was quite a long slog the 2 times I’ve done it before which included a couple of 80-100k rides.
Zwift should help, what’s the flattest course?
For Watopia I’d say Tempus fugit - cruise with Coco
Booo hiss
The insanely dull Casse-Pattes.
Just do a U-turn before the Petit KoM.
Does about 2m elevation in 20km
I haven’t got a single French badge yet. I was on a course that I thought was Ven Top but it was pretty boring as well. Went through some sprint or other and the ‘Balloon Fields’? I bailed.
Going to give it a try this year.
Wife working so it will a ‘cheaters’ option while kids chill out.
For those zwifting it there is an Evo base ride on Saturdays/Sundays - 160km @ 3w/kg
Nice. Will look into those
I was looking into it until I saw you need to be Strava.
You could create a private account?
I could,in the same way I could watch Die Hard at Xmas…
Hahaha
@Adam Evo base ride 160km at 7am Saturday/Sunday. Well led and stick to the advertised pace with sweepers to help you back if have a bad moment/drop out.
Found them a good way to manage longer rides and a bit of chat helps pass the time.
My regular Satdi long un if the weather isn’t nice.
If you’re doing 45 loops of Tempus Fugit, watching Die Hard 1 & 2 just might get you through it.
Ho ho ho, now I’ve got a machine gun.
Well I won’t sign up to Strava for this (or anything) but if anyone is planning a long ride at ~2.5 w/kg I might join in.
I was also thinking of knocking off the 25x Volcano badge during that time.
Tomorrow looks a reasonable day but the Met Office are busy issuing weather warnings over the festive period 
We’ve got snow forecast, 500k on Zwift will be a tough ask! Tempus Fugit anyone?