I’m finished too:
8 TR workouts, for a total of almost 15 hours and 892 TSS. I might try to fit in one more workout tomorrow to finish the year strong.
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yeah doing all of mine using TR. i know it’s not the same as outside and i hate that (lived in socal, now in oregon). mileage inflated for sure but i just pretend it makes up for the downhill coasting 
festive 500 has always been a huge fitness kick for me.
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Even using Zwifts super optimistic speed calcs it’s still a 14-15 hour week (well 8 days but I never ride Christmas day) - don’t knock it!
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Unfortunately I don’t think I’m going to make it to 500km this year. Did a 121mi (~195km) ride today, but still falling about 100km short. Still one day left, but will probably just rest up. In retrospect, I should’ve front loaded it. Always next year!
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What app / website is this graphic from?
I just did 200k this fesitve season. I hope i can do it in 2022.
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Go for it and rest up tomorrow. Do your best and forget the rest. Don’t worry about making the 500k just ride your ride!
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First guy has 3.5k
In any case is 10+hrs per day…
Maybe it’s legit but it looks like multiple guys switching on Zwift. That would be the easiest way to cheet
I believe that Rapha really liked to push the festive 500 to encourage group rides out of the stores. Probably get a few more sales just after Christmas. But also, build their community engagement up when many of the people who are Rapha types have free time from work.
Due to COVID that seems to have put a damper in the group rides. The store nearest me is not doing group rides for the public this year.
Do I get it right? While you ride outside in cold and think somebody else is warm and cozy indoors, your inside warms up as well and this takes away your challenge riding outdoors? I applaud your empathy and I’d like to apologize for doing this to you 
If it makes you feel better, at least my ass is very sore and tender. I promise, once depth of snow gets less than 30cm, i will try ride more outdoors.
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Went out today for Extra Credit (the extra credit was to break 400 miles):
About equal outside rides to indoor:
- Outside 4 rides & 213 miles
- Inside 4 rides & “191 miles”
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Finished today with a 65k outdoor ride (followed by 3 pints…)
Outdoor vs indoor : as I said above, they’re both challenges but they are different.
I’ve done it outside twice before, both over 7 days and last year especially was both very hard, very miserable (freezing rain and hail), and very boring with the snow and ice we had confining me to gritted and ploughed routes near to my house.
This year I did it mainly indoors over 5 days due to other commitments and food poisoning, and it certainly was still a challenge - 3-4hr stints on the turbo are a challenge in anyone’s book I would think.
Great base work either way I would say.
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Masochistically impressive 
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Finished mine today. All indoors - just not practical to do it outdoor due to work and weather.
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Spot on. It is about encouraging people to ride. Being snobbish / purist about it is counter productive. I did mine entirely indoor due to work and weather - I don’t have the luxury of being off from work during this period. Doing it indoors has its own challenges.
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Since the weather here in the South has been unseasonably warm (and thus easy to ride outside), I set myself my own challenge for the Festive 500. Also, my wife is due to have our fourth kid any day now, I needed to stay close.
My goal: complete the Festive 500 on my bakfiets (front-loading cargo bike) with at least one kid on board at all times.
The gear: 80-pound custom bakfiets (front-loading cargo bike) equipped with a power meter.
The route: this was quite boring but not as bad (to me) as riding inside - 17 mile linear “loop” on a paved bike trail and through neighborhoods around my house. Never more than 5.5 miles from home.
The results: 314 miles (506 km), 22:47 moving, 24:29 elapsed, 14,887 kJ, 181.4 watts average, 1,063 TSS.
Biggest cargo bike week by far, and it didn’t help that the two days before the start were each 2000 kJ days. I felt the fatigue building 3 or 4 days from the end, but kept getting on the bike each day and surprising myself. After my ride on the 29th, I wasn’t planning on riding the rest on the 30th. But that’s how it shook out and I couldn’t be happier!
Some pics of the troopers below. A lot of the time they were napping! Several different combinations were possible.
Final ride of the challenge:
EDIT: added TSS because I knew I was forgetting something!
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There is nothing not awesome about that!! 
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