 Arandiel Grey Havens Jan 31 2013, 7:44pm Views: 1479 |
There and Back Again Group Challenge Progress Miles covered last week: 86.91 Cumulative miles: 10394.73 Miles along the journey: 692.98 Miles out of Rivendell: 295.98 We're almost 18 miles into Mirkwood Forest, one-tenth of the way through (according to the Eowyn Challege site, it's 180 miles from the western end of the trail to the place where the Dwarves are captured by Thranduil's Elves). According to my edition of The Hobbit, we'll be on page 141 for a while. So to liven the journey a bit over the next few weeks, feel free to mention your favorite action scenes in the books or the movies. They go by so quickly on the Road! My progress: Miles covered this week: 6 Cumulative miles: 450 Goal: There and Back Again! It was a somewhat better week for me, mostly because of contextual exercise. I had a little bit of snow shoveling (finally - I hate droughts) and I've been schlepping cases of Girl Scout cookies; it's good to be the Troop Cookie Manager. Maybe, if I tell myself that often enough, I'll believe it...  Beamer's progress: Miles covered this week: 9 Cumulative miles: 447 Goal: Group Challenge It was PE, dance, and door-to-door Girl Scout cookie sales for Beamer this week, so she's getting some weight-bearing exercise - woohoo! Arandiel The Scoop on the Walk The TORn Walk to Rivendell thread meets right here on Main, on Thursdays. Learn about TORn's There and Back Again Challenge The Eowyn Challenge/Walk to Rivendell (and beyond) is a Middle-Earth-related fitness group that began in March 2003, and has been going on with walkers around the world ever since. TORn's Walk is open to all people and healthy types of activity. Please visit the Eowyn Challenge site, especially the main page and the Walk page, for more information. Useful links, including mileage charts compiled by the late Karen Wynn Fonstad, are on the Tools page. grammaboodawg's awesome site for Bilbo's return mileages from the Lonely Mountain to Bag End, some helpful activity conversion charts, and the Walk to Rivendell's TORn-up Postcards Notta's Super-Duper Walking-Equivalents Chart Eowyn Challenge Login Page to register miles If you use the Eowyn Challenge site to track your progress, please update your mileage via the login page, and be sure to keep a backup record, in case Warg attack, Wizard-induced blizzard, or other fell calamity causes the Shields page to crash. Walk to Rivendell: There and Back Again Challenge - traveling through Middle Earth with thirteen rowdy Dwarves, one grumpy Wizard, and a beleaguered Hobbit Join us, Thursdays on Main! |
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Not a whole lot going on for me, but Little D is still active in basketball. His team had two close games the past two Saturdays, winning by 1 and 3. We are thrilled to see his game improve every week. Oh yes, and the annual running of the Pinewood Derby was last Friday. The competition gets tougher each year and he was able to eke out a podium finish amongst his Wolf den, with a nice little trophy to boot. Yay! The only thing I did out of the ordinary this past couple of weeks was change the toilet wax ring in our spare bathroom. What fun that was. Doing it by myself was a challenge and a good 1/2 hour work-out. 
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