#festive500 This week has been really hard work. We started with a little warm up on Sunday riding to John and Gill's for Sunday roast, a short 15km with a long lunch break in the middle, plus a blowy walk on the beach.
http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/162090234

Christmas eve we started in earnest, a 50km ride with Mike from Totnes to Dartmouth via Paignton, Kingswear and a short ferry crossing. A quick pasty lunch, then on back via the coast to Torcross, where there was a huge flood to cross.
http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/162089190

On Christmas day we rode to Totnes for our Crimbo with the family. 23.5km
http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/162098060 

On Boxing day James and I spent the evening riding a lovely 50km route across into the Ermington valley, then up to South Brent, before bombing back down towards Modbury and home
http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/162102180

Thursday was a very easy day - we met with Mike, Rosie, Maz, Rem and the boys at Haldon forest for a mountainbike ride - this was amazing fun, but we barely covered any real distance, approx 26km. The trails were everything the should be, wet, wild and bumpy.

On Friday, Mike, Rosie, James and I headed out to Dartmoor to cover some more miles. The weather was about as bad as you can get, gale force winds, rain, wet roads and 20% climbs all made for a ride to remember. I pushed up a few of the hills after a while, my legs were turning to jelly and I was struggling to keep my front wheel on the road. On the descents the wind was so strong we still had to pedal to keep going, it really was something else. We had a long lunch stop in Princetwon while we waited for the weather to clear, it didn't, but this was an opportunity to dry off and warm up before heading back out. The drop down off the moor had very poor visibilty, but then we dropped down into the valleys through the rain and the ride became much nicer. the total distance covered was 115km, phew!!!
http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/161989732

Today, Jimbo and I headed back into the Ermington valley for an easy 100km - looking at the stats afterwards it had a lot more climbing than we thought - a total of 2382ft, phew!!
http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/162083936

Tomorrow, there's more to cover, my calculations say that we have 1 remaining 120km, can't wait to get my roundel for all this hard work!