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Arandiel
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Oct 5 2012, 3:03am
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Walk to Rivendell and Beyond: There and Back Again Challenge!
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Welcome to another week of the Walk to Rivendell, all you energetic TORnFolk! Our Challenge is moving right along; with a good group effort, we may break 10,000 miles by the end of October. Life has been busy here in Northern Colorado; Fall descended on us this past week, rather suddenly and completely (in keeping with our usual pattern; the only difference is in which part of September or October it hits). Hmmm... cool weather, need to stay warm – perfect excuse to get moving!
And, ImetLegolas and anyone else lurking about: feel free to join in!
There and Back Again
Group Challenge Progress
Miles covered last week: 118.5
Cumulative miles: 9529.24
Miles along the journey: 635.28
Miles out of Rivendell: 238.28
In addition to letting everyone know that we're still riding through the grasslands next to Mirkwood, I though it would be fun to recap where our There and Back Again Challenge regulars are. At this point, grammaboodawg has met herself coming and going west of Mirkwood, Arwen's Daughter is in a soggy barrel race with the dwarves, Delrond is sprinting toward the Battle of the Five Armies, Beamer and I are approaching Rivendell, which excellent libraries ShyElf has just left, Alassea Eruvande is about to work a riddle game, bearagorn and Iolani are on their way to Beorn's, and silneldor's gone and wandered off with Gandalf and Bilbo's nephew, Frodo. Whew!
My progress:
Miles covered this week: 4
Cumulative miles: 373
Goal: There and Back Again!
Ohh, I need miles. For my own well-being, I need treadmill and rowing time. At least I got a few this week, but I've been set back by a headache and two lousy nights of sleep. I can always tell when I'm just too tired: I keep setting off the safety stop feature on the treadmill. Next week will be better!
Beamer's progress:
Miles covered this week: 3
Cumulative miles: 388
Goal: Group Challenge
Oh, Beamer – my own Banquo. Her performance is next Wednesday. I haven't figured out a mileage conversion for performances; there should be one, though. The one thing I know for sure is that she'll be hungry after she's done her acting bit, from burning those calories!
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 - getting thirteen rowdy Dwarves, one grumpy Wizard, and a beleaguered Hobbit from Bag End to the Lonely Mountain by December 2012; and the same Hobbit and Wizard back to Bag End by December 2013
Join us, Thursdays on Main!
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Walk to Rivendell and Beyond: There and Back Again Challenge!
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Arandiel
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Oct 5 2012, 3:03am
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And another.
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Delrond
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Oct 5 2012, 11:51am
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Glad you made it through the Battle!
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Arandiel
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Oct 5 2012, 8:32pm
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OK! on your race Del!
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silneldor
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Oct 6 2012, 2:53am
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Well done on the 5K front!
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grammaboodawg
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Oct 10 2012, 1:45am
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Just a wee bit to add this week
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ShyElf
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Oct 5 2012, 3:44pm
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Isn't camping wonderful?
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Arandiel
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Oct 5 2012, 8:34pm
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Onward and upward...
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silneldor
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Oct 6 2012, 2:56am
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This is so cool :)
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grammaboodawg
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Oct 10 2012, 1:46am
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Good Luck Beamer!!! :D
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grammaboodawg
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Oct 5 2012, 4:28pm
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Clearing-out and cleaning-up -
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Arandiel
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Oct 5 2012, 8:38pm
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My! We 'ave been buZy :)
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silneldor
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Oct 6 2012, 2:39am
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Well Arandiel, we will soon have
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silneldor
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Oct 6 2012, 2:33am
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Aren't those two-fer workouts great?
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Arandiel
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Oct 9 2012, 6:29pm
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Battling your own personal Old Forest ;)
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grammaboodawg
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Oct 10 2012, 1:50am
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And good luck to Beamer on her performance Wednesday!!
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silneldor
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Oct 6 2012, 3:05am
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last week
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Iolani
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Oct 8 2012, 1:56pm
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Ooh, careful!
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Arandiel
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Oct 9 2012, 6:31pm
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Ow! Back problems bring everything to a halt!
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grammaboodawg
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Oct 10 2012, 1:53am
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It is amazing how many people with backbones
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silneldor
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Oct 10 2012, 2:23am
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thank you!
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Iolani
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Oct 10 2012, 2:40am
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I almost have Mr. Weaver talked into increasing our mileage!
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weaver
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Oct 9 2012, 2:54am
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I've logged your miles a few times
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Arandiel
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Oct 9 2012, 6:35pm
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thanks!
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weaver
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Oct 11 2012, 2:49am
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I don't like the cold, either ;)
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grammaboodawg
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Oct 10 2012, 1:57am
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Way to go weav!
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silneldor
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Oct 10 2012, 2:31am
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