Rapha’s 2019 Festive 500 Challenge – Tips & how to complete it

Rapha’s 2019 Festive 500 Challenge – Tips & how to complete it

The 2019 Rapha Festive 500 Challenge will, once again, take on a similar format to the previous editions.

The challenge for riders is to cycle 500km between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve inclusive. The challenge is open to riders all around the world and anyone can take part.

How to Complete the Rapha Festive 500 Challenge 2018

How to Complete the Rapha Festive 500 Challenge 2018

The Rapha Festive 500 Challenge for 2018 will follow the same format as previous years. The challenge is to cycle 500km between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve inclusive. Riders around the world can take part, which makes the challenge a lot easier for those in the Southern Hemisphere (particularly Aussies) than it does for […]

How to Complete the Rapha Festive 500 Challenge 2017

How to Complete the Rapha Festive 500 Challenge 2017

The Rapha Festive 500 Challenge for 2017 will follow the same format as previous years. The challenge is to cycle 500km between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. Riders around the world can take part which makes the challenge a lot easier for those in the Southern Hemisphere (particularly Aussies) than it does for us […]

Rapha Festive 500 2016 Roundel Opening

Rapha Festive 500 2016 Roundel Opening

I completed the Rapha Festive 500 again between Christmas and New Year’s Eve 2016. The challenge is to cycle 500km over 8 days during the darkest, bleakest and most social time of the year. Part of the reward for completing the challenge, other than the massive leg muscles, is a woven roundel patch to commemorate […]

Rapha Festive 500 2016 – Getting it done

Rapha Festive 500 2016 – Getting it done

Completing the 2016 Rapha Festive 500 This Christmas, I set myself the challenge to complete the Rapha Festive 500 again. The challenge that Rapha set is to cycle 500 kilometres between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, which given the Winter weather and social restrictions of that time of year presents a fair obstacle. I […]

Rapha Festive 500 2014 Roundel Reward Pack Opening

Rapha Festive 500 2014 Roundel Reward Pack Opening

After all my riding over the Christmas period, written about here, the fruits of my labours arrived in the post.  Aside from the patch badge thingy, it came with a postcard full of pictures of data from the collective riding of the Festive 500 this time around. Unsurprisingly the most successful country at achieving the […]

Rapha Festive 500 Challenge 2014

Rapha Festive 500 Challenge 2014

  For the last few years Rapha (of over-expensive MAMIL clothing fame, as commented on previously) set a challenge for riders to complete 500km between Christmas Eve and the Midnight of New Year’s Eve. The challenge is made difficult by it being a decent distance to ride in the first place, but also the commitments […]