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Arandiel
Grey Havens
May 23 2014, 4:14am
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Walk to Rivendell and Beyond: There and Back Again Challenge!
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Hi, fellow TORn walkers, runners, swimmers, rowers, hikers and all! How go your journeys this week? My progress: Miles covered this past two weeks: 30 Cumulative miles: 1155 Goal: There and Back Again! These last couple weeks have been hectic for us - heaps of end-of-the-school-year activities, plus I've been spending a couple hours a day most days pulling weeds and preparing our front yard for new plants. It's mud season here in Northern Colorado, and it doesn't last long, so I'm trying to take full advantage of it before our soil reverts to hardpan. In the process, I've increased my minimum daily mileage again. It's not where it needs to be, but I'm getting closer! Beamer's progress: Miles covered this past two weeks: 13 Cumulative miles: 1027 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 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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Joe-Mathews
Rivendell
May 23 2014, 11:33pm
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Migration season is here so I haven't been able to post often, but have racked up the miles carrying heavy gear. I'm sunburned and sore but doing well. My cat is recovering from a bad infection. She looks like the Goblin King (or an extra from The Walking Dead) but she continues to fight for every day with more spirit than I usually manage for myself, so I will continue to support her. I got some good pictures and added four new birds to my photo-lifer list. I'll spare you all with two: Waxwing Pair Berry-Passing (They pass berries back and forth as a sign of affection; either as pairs or flock-members) Northern Parula Warbler I'll share better pictures next time. (I've got plenty to last all summer>) Well, I've finally reached Mirkwood and will be there for the foreseeable future. Good job everyone, and good health and fortune! Total mileage: 695.55 Challenge Miles: 615.45 Miles since last post: 58.85 To Go: 351.55
'There is some woe that lies upon you... Why will you not tell me more?' 'For that woe is past,' said Galadriel; 'and I would take what joy is here left, untroubled by memory. And maybe there is woe enough yet to come, thought still hope may seem bright.'
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Brethil
Half-elven
May 23 2014, 11:49pm
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The next TORn Amateur Symposium is a special edition: the Jubilee TAS to celebrate 60 years of FOTR! If you have an LOTR idea you would like to write about, we'd love to see your writing featured there!
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Arandiel
Grey Havens
May 25 2014, 12:04am
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I'm glad to hear they're getting you out and about, even with the sunburns. And I hope your cat keeps getting better.
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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Arandiel
Grey Havens
May 25 2014, 12:14am
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Yeah, we reenacted Noah's Ark last night...
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Except that, instead of loading animals into a boat, we had to move our just-purchased plants from the garden bed where they were in an inch of water to the sun porch so they wouldn't drown. This is not normal for us. But we didn't get the flooding or tornadoes - hopefully we'll dodge them tonight. I'm glad to hear you're getting things done - sometimes it feels like you'll never get to the top of that mountain, but then that burst of energy comes along and gets you - well, partway up the mountain... hang in there, gramma!
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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