Sign up for the Challenge on Strava and make sure to log any kilometers you do throughout the challenge to your Strava account. If you haven’t already connected your Zwift and Strava accounts, here’s a handy how-to guide: Zwift How-To: Connecting to Strava. 

As long as you’re tracking your rides on Strava, any kilometers logged—both indoors and outdoors—count towards the challenge. If you fancy some company, Zwift is making it possible for you to always have someone to roll with during this 8-day challenge with our series of events.

When you complete the Festive 500 Challenge on Strava, you will receive an email with a link to unlock the virtual Festive 500 kit in Zwift - regardless of whether those kms were ridden indoors or out. Click the link, sign in or create an account, and the kit will be waiting for you the next time you take to the virtual tarmac.

Ever since the inception of the #Festive500 ten years ago, riders around the world have been commemorating their experiences in all manners of ways. From photo albums to poems, hand-drawn maps to freshly baked pastries. And each year the most inventive submissions are selected and rewarded with cycling prizes to keep them riding until the next year.

Judging the finalists will be American pro cyclist Justin Williams. His Legion of Los Angeles elite cycling team works hard to encourage inclusion and knows a thing or two about teaming up with others to accomplish big goals! Rapha will announce the winner of the award, along with the other categories in the Spirit of the Festive 500 Awards in January.