500 kilometres. Eight days. 24th-31st December. The worldβs favourite festive cycling challenge is back. Join us for even more miles and memories in our riding rite of passage.
Rapha Festive 500
This year’s holiday challenge will be the Rapha Festive 500. That’s 500 kilometers of riding in 8 days or 310.7 miles. I’ll be posting my bike activities, mileage, and forms of entertainment here while participating in the 8-day challenge that kicks off on December 24th and ends on December 31st.
Rapha Festive New York will also be holding IRL events.
Schedule
- Day 1 – December 24
- Strava 70 km / 500 km
- Day 2 – December 25 – Rest Day π΄
- Day 3 – December 26
- Strava 199 km / 500 km
- Day 4 – December 27
- Day 5 – December 28
- Day 6 – December 29
- Day 7 – December 30 (optional outdoor ride) β
- Strava – Rapha Festive 500 is complete. 521 km / 500 km π
- Rapha Festive 500 stats
Day 8 – December 31TBD
WWDC | iOS | Other | Video Playlist
- Day 1 – December 24
- Swiftly Speaking 3: John Sundell – Running Time: 1:35:54
- Day 2 – December 25 – Rest Day π΄
- Day 3 – December 26
- Day 4 – December 27
Discover concurrency in SwiftUI – Meet async/await and Explore structured concurrency in Swift are Prerequisites to this video- Meet async/await in Swift – WWDC21 π
- Explore structured concurrency in Swift – WWDC21 π
- Day 5 – December 28
- Day 6 – December 29
- Day 7 – December 30 (optional outdoor ride) β
- Rapha Festive 500 is complete. 521 km / 500 km π
Day 8 – December 31TBD
Overall Stats
Holy Shoes
I had three shoes in rotation throughout the Rapha Festive 500.
My Top 10 Strava Followers Participating in the Rapha Festive 500

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