“One does not simply walk into Mordor…”
This is the basis of the extremely nerdy, Lord of
the Rings-based walking challenge a friend of mine proposed at the start of
this new year. That we, as a group, collectively try to cover the 1,779 mile
distance between Hobbiton and Mount Doom.
He got the idea here.
If we’re doing it in a year it comes out to just
under five miles per day (10,000 steps), which is the recommended amount of
movement for an adult human anyway. Figuring out where we'd be in Middle Earth
as we cover distance is just a fun way of keeping everyone interested and
motivated to move. All you need to participate is a movement tracker of some
sort and a bit of commitment.
At first we had some confusion over how to keep
track of everyone. A Fitbit group would work, but not everyone uses a Fitbit,
so we eventually settled on a Google spreadsheet where folks can log in each
day and report their daily mileage and steps. It averages us all together so we
know where we are as a group as well as individually.
I’m thinking of giving myself a reward at journey’s
end for reaching Mount Doom. Technically, it should be a ride on a giant eagle’s
back to Minis Tirith but since those are hard to come by I’ll try to think of
something indulgent and frivolous that I normally wouldn’t get for myself (that
isn’t food).
“Home is behind, the world ahead,
and there are many paths to tread
through shadows to the edge of night,
until the stars are all alight.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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