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Today, Derien travelled 3.6 miles on the journey from Bag End to Rivendell.
Returned to the Great East Road
A total of 132.9 miles along the way.
Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net
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In fact this was the American Heart Association walk around Back Cove in Portland, this morning. We did not attempt to raise money for them, and Eor says that, like taking a cruise, now that he has experienced a charity walk he feels no need to ever do such a thing again. Too many people. "It was nice to see the dogs, though." There were a lot of dogs. :)
We also had a conversation about why the Eowyn Challenge is better than most. The whole "Couch to 5K" thing he's been doing is now complete, it had a set end point and it wasn't really very far out there. The Eowyn Challenge asks you to walk the distance from Bag End to Rivendell, but when you get THERE you can then continue on to Mordor, and you can take the side-trips to Minas Tirith and such, and then you can walk back to Bag End. Back in the day people used to DO that shit. We have a book called "Seven Wives and Seven Prisons" about a guy wandering around New Hampshire and Vermont, and he talks about walking 40 miles one day in a snowstorm and getting so tired out that he could only make 20 the next day. And then he managed to hop a train for a bit the day after that. We're pretty lazy these days.
ETA: But we did get a big grocery shopping trip in, and then a good amount of yard work. I began the mowing for the summer - a never-ending task. We have too much lawn, and much of it on slopes or rough ground.
Returned to the Great East Road
A total of 132.9 miles along the way.
Generated by Eor's Walk Tool inspired by Eowyn Challenge.net
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In fact this was the American Heart Association walk around Back Cove in Portland, this morning. We did not attempt to raise money for them, and Eor says that, like taking a cruise, now that he has experienced a charity walk he feels no need to ever do such a thing again. Too many people. "It was nice to see the dogs, though." There were a lot of dogs. :)
We also had a conversation about why the Eowyn Challenge is better than most. The whole "Couch to 5K" thing he's been doing is now complete, it had a set end point and it wasn't really very far out there. The Eowyn Challenge asks you to walk the distance from Bag End to Rivendell, but when you get THERE you can then continue on to Mordor, and you can take the side-trips to Minas Tirith and such, and then you can walk back to Bag End. Back in the day people used to DO that shit. We have a book called "Seven Wives and Seven Prisons" about a guy wandering around New Hampshire and Vermont, and he talks about walking 40 miles one day in a snowstorm and getting so tired out that he could only make 20 the next day. And then he managed to hop a train for a bit the day after that. We're pretty lazy these days.
ETA: But we did get a big grocery shopping trip in, and then a good amount of yard work. I began the mowing for the summer - a never-ending task. We have too much lawn, and much of it on slopes or rough ground.
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