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Arandiel
Hithlum
Jun 21 2012, 11:24pm
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Walk to Rivendell and Beyond: There and Back Again Challenge!
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Welcome to the Walk to Rivendell, fair travelers! How's it going? Are you staying cool/warm/dry/hydrated (whichever is most apropos to your weather) as you stay active? Do tell, and bring your friends!
There and Back Again
Group Challenge Progress
Miles covered last week: 137.6
Cumulative miles: 7371.59
Miles along the journey: 491.44
Miles out of Rivendell: 94.44
We're between goblin attacks right now. Which seems somehow only marginally better than being in the middle of a goblin attack. Let's put some miles on and get outta here! And got any good riddles? Bilbo's going to be needing them soon!
My progress:
Miles covered this week: 3
Cumulative miles: 313
Goal: There and Back Again!
Well, my foot's had plenty of rest, and I'm itching to get back on the treadmill. Slowly. Not interested in setting myself back, not one little bit! And we have a TWIG update, too! We now have five tomatoes, three melons and four squashes digging their roots into our garden soil. Poor dears; our garden soil makes good pinch pots! Beamer and my Hobbit were quite helpful out there, digging and planting and mulching - gotta get 'em while they're young!
Beamer's progress:
Miles covered this week: 3
Cumulative miles: 305
Goal: Group Challenge
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 awesomely 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 that same much enriched Hobbit back to Bag End by December 2013
Join us, Thursdays on Main!
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Alassëa Eruvande
Doriath
Jun 22 2012, 3:14pm
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Not much actual activity this week.
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I did clean house like a fiend last weekend. I'm talking hands-and-knees-on-the-floor scrubbing! Of course, by now you can't even tell...
Whose idea was it anyway to have these two mess-makers?! 
This Week In Gardening, we're winding down for the summer. The tomatoes are giving up the last of the fruit, the corn stalks are completely crunchy, the lettuce is worm food. But, those crazy watermelons and peppers are still at it. We now have four little watermelons, ranging in size from newborn piglet, to month-old piglet. They'll probably be ready when we go on vacation next week. Typical. Hopefully my father in law will remember to water them while we're gone.
Miles this week: 18.4
Cumulative miles: 358.7
And suddenly the Tornadoes saw afar off a greenlight, as it were a cloud with a living heart of flame;
and they knew that this was no vision only, but that PJ had made a new thing: The Hobbit, the Film that Is.
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grammaboodawg
Elvenhome
Jun 24 2012, 3:55pm
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The garden is stressed and it's bleeding over into your crazy-busy day. You get massive brownie points for being such a great Mom and giving your family a wonderful home :)
I know I did insane cleaning and re-arranging this past 2 weeks. And it's all gone in the first 3 hours of the g'kiddies arriving from Baltimore. But we clean and scrub because we... uh... because... *ponders* Screw it... let's go to the mall :D
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
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Alassëa Eruvande
Doriath
Jun 24 2012, 4:21pm
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Can I just have a massive brownie?
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And suddenly the Tornadoes saw afar off a greenlight, as it were a cloud with a living heart of flame;
and they knew that this was no vision only, but that PJ had made a new thing: The Hobbit, the Film that Is.
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Arwen's daughter
Gondolin
Jun 25 2012, 3:21pm
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I wasn't online much this weekend. Still walking, and I can jog about half my route now, as long as I do it in 1-2 minute increments.
Miles this (last) week: 33
Cumulative: 689
So that puts me on the trail in Mirkwood.
How will you get to the Lonely Mountain?
Help TORn log enough miles to get us to Smaug's home and back by Dec. 2013
Walk to Rivendell - Thursdays on Main
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Iolani
Ossiriand
Jun 25 2012, 7:38pm
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Here it is! I've changed my routine to in-house workouts, so there's not quite as much mileage. Just trying to get the most out of my time. But I plan to still work hard for the group goal!
last week: 13.8
Cumulative: 561.7
Goal: Group Challenge, there and back again
Everyone have a strong week! God bless!
"It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And you didn't want to know the end...for how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But then you realize in the end it's just a passing thing, this shadow. A new day will come! And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stuck with you, that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. The folk in those stories a lot of chances of turnin' back only they didn't. They kept going, because they were holdin' on to something."
"What are we holding onto, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for!"
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grammaboodawg
Elvenhome
Jun 27 2012, 9:44am
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I'll bet it feels better to be able to get back to your routine :D Great Mileage!! *high five*
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
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grammaboodawg
Elvenhome
Jun 27 2012, 9:46am
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I hear ya on getting the most out of the time invested... and if it works for you.... PERFECT!! :) Well Done!! :D
I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
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