I
continued my (virtual) “Walk to Mordor” during the past week by logging only
five more miles since my last update. I walked/jogged five miles yesterday (Friday).
So far, I’ve logged 1,040 total miles on this virtual trip to Mount Doom, and
I’ve got 759 more miles to go before I reach Mordor. All in all, I’ve completed
about 57.8 percent of the total trip.
Saturday, December 17, 2016
'WALK TO MORDOR' UPDATE: 1,040 miles down and 759 miles to go
In
relation to Frodo’s journey, I’m on the fourth day of the trip past Lothlorien,
which is Feb. 19 on the Middle Earth calendar. I left off my last update on
Mile 1,035, which was 12 miles from where Frodo’s group, the Fellowship of the
Ring, resumed their travels on the river at the start of the day. During the
past week, I tacked on five more miles, taking me all the way to Mile 1,040,
which took me to where the river broadens as the day continues gray and
overcast.
In
all on Feb. 19, the group covers a total distance of 60 miles in 13 hours. The
next significant milestone will come 23 miles later, at Mile 1,063, which is
where he group will reach the North Undeep.
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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