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Got over 900km this year. Quite pleased really considering I was working most days and I still managed to have a day off to celebrate Christmas with the rest of the family, albeit not on Christmas day. Quite pleased it's over with though. The ride out on Christmas day was gruesome in typically Festive 500 fashion. The extended commutes I could have best done without but they helped pump up the mileage a bit. In general though for this time of year in England I think the weather conditions have been pretty kind to us cyclists. I wouldn't have completed the 500km if the roads had been covered in ice. Off road it's really difficult to cover that type of distance with all the gloopy mud. I'm now gonna begin fattening up for the cold snap that's to come 🙂
On the third year of trying I managed to complete it AND stay out of hospital. Mostly it was very wet and windy with even a non-raining Boxing Day finding me riding through floods fork crown deep.
Work this week meant evening rides. Still, all wrapped up.
Well done to all else who had a go, completer or not.
Made it to 502km on Tuesday and have been focusing on beer and cake since then.
It was good overall, got me out riding to places I'd never been in rank weather. Marital harmony was improved over the holidays by me being in a better mood. I did very early starts to minimise family disruption.
The highlight was a daft ride up to Pitlochry in the dark to try and make the last train home. It was the night all the flooding hit so fairly moist.