Festive 500 Ride #6 - Completing the 500
This was the final ride in this year's Rapha Festive 500 (#raphafestive500) with a 103KM ride from Enfield up to Epping, then looping through the village of Much Hadham, passing through Watton-at-Stone before climbing through Essendon towards Potter's Bar, and back to Enfield.
As you can see, it was raining fairly solidly throughout the ride. My GoPro doesn't pick up the amount of rain too well, but the flashing of my front light makes some of the rain appear almost as snow.
Looking at the weather forecast, I could have done this ride later on the 30th or tried on the 31st, but the weather and especially the wind, looked worse later on. So I wore waterproof shoe covers, waterproof socks and lots of other waterproof gear. My feet obviously still got soaked - not helped by having to ford flooded roads from time to time.
The more observant may have noted that there is not Ride #5. I did record a video for it, but it's just insanely dull on a grey day, so not worth sharing. At least this one has bad weather to enliven it. The sun even briefly makes an appearance towards the end.