One Ride. One Go. Five Hundred Festive Miles.

Most riders tackle the Festive 500 in manageable chunks. NRC's Gideon Rabinowitz chose the full-fat option — riding all 500 kilometres in one relentless push. From pre-dawn starts and café misfires to pizza-fuelled night riding, navigational mishaps and a gritty solo finish, this is a funny, honest and quietly heroic account of endurance, ageing legs and the strange appeal of doing hard things twice.

Read 'The ‘Full Fat Festive 500’ … for the second time' here