500 kilometers from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Eve. I learned about the thing weekend before Christmas. Sounded fun and weather forecasts looked like weather would be suitable. I started aiming to get 400 kilometers. I didn’t have 500 km eight days even during summer. So I didn’t want to aim to 500 kilometers. During summer I rode on cyclo-cross bike. This was going to be with fatbike because it was during winter.
It felt so good after first couple days I wanted to try to get 500 km if weather was suitable. For first three days weather was like dry autumn. Next three days we got snow and winter weather. Still quite easy rides but not as easy as first three says. For last two days it was wet, windy and muddy weather. I am glad I had so much kilometers by that time I could have shorter days.
With my poor shape it took 36 hour with breaks. Probably won’t be doing this again next year. I had other plans for this holiday season but it felt like this was good year to do Festive 500 if I ever gonna do it. With Covid-19 there wasn’t much else to do. Besides trying to make some music and videos but that had to wait this time.