Every year since 2010 Rapha has laid down a festive riding challenge: to ride 500km between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. The #Festive500 might have started in the South of England but, in the ten years since it has grown to become a global challenge and a cumulative of 130 million kilometres were ridden. The challenge is a rite of passage for every cyclist and in the past decade, participation grew steadily reaching over 500,000 participants and 126,000 completions overall.

For the first time, you can do some or all of the Rapha Festive 500 challenge on Zwift. For this ride, join Legion of LA’s Justin Williams and Tekkerz’s Alec Briggs as they lead you on a trans-atlantic group ride on the Petit Boucle. They’ll keep the group together but attack the sprint segments to see who’s got the legs this festive season