I
continued my (virtual) “Walk to Mordor” during the past week by logging 15 more
miles since my last update. I jogged/walked five miles on Saturday, five miles
on Wednesday and five more miles today (Friday). So far, I’ve logged 983 total
miles on this virtual trip to Mount Doom, and I’ve got 816 more miles to go
before I reach Mordor. All in all, I’ve completed about 54.6 percent of the
total trip.
Friday, November 4, 2016
'WALK TO MORDOR' UPDATE: 983 miles down and 816 miles to go
In
relation to Frodo’s journey, I’m on the second day of the trip past Lothlorien,
which is Feb. 17 on the Middle Earth calendar. I left off my last update on
Mile 968, which was 17 miles from the start of the day’s travels. Frodo’s
group, the Fellowship of the Ring, drifts 36 miles down the Silverlode River on
this day, and so far I’ve covered 32 of those miles, all the way to Mile 983.
The next significant milestone comes four miles later, when the group again
camps on the west bank of the river at the end of the day.
For
those of you reading this for the first time, I began this “Walk to Mordor”
fitness challenge on Jan. 1, 2015. Using a book called “The Atlas of
Middle-Earth” by Karen Wynn Fonstad, fans of “The Lord of the Rings” created
this challenge by mapping out Frodo’s fictional trek to Mordor, calculating the
total distance at 1,799 miles. They also used the original "Lord of the
Rings" text to outline the journey, so you can follow their route by
keeping up with your total mileage.
The
folks who worked out the nuts and bolts of this virtual journey have divided it
into four parts. It’s 458 miles from Hobbiton to Rivendell, 462 miles from
Rivendell through Moria to Lothlorien, 389 miles from Lothlorien down the
Anduin to Rauros Falls and 470 miles from Rauros to Mount Doom. (Those
locations should sound very familiar to “Lord of the Rings” fans.) The hobbits
averaged 18 miles a day, but if you walk (or jog, as I sometimes do) five miles
a day, it’s possible to cover 1,799 miles in a year.
If
you’re interested in learning more about the “Walk to Mordor Challenge,” I suggest
you check out two Web sites, http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/07/23/walking/ and http://home.insightbb.com/~eowynchallenge/. Both of these sites provide a ton of details about the
challenge, including how to get started.
In
the end, check back next Friday for another update and to see how much closer I
am to Mordor. I hope to knock out at least nine more miles next week, and I’ll
include all that in my update next week.
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