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Eowyn Challenge
Mar. 27th, 2024 04:50 pmEowyn Challenge -- progress
Walking to Rivendell
Miles travelled yesterday: 6
Miles travelled today: 1
Miles travelled so far: 7
Miles still to go: 451
Percentage complete: 1.5%
Point reached on journey: We have left Bag End, crossed the Great Road from the Brandywine Bridge and entered Tookland. We are now looking back at lights of Hobbiton from first slopes of the Green Hill Country.
In several places on different social media platforms, people have been mentioning either the virtual walk to Mordor and/or re-reading The Lord of the Rings. It's as though the universe is telling me it's time to set off on the long road to Mordor again -- or perhaps just to Rivendell? We'll see...
I completed the journey to Mordor some years ago and then did almost all the various side journeys. I'm not using an app. I'm just using a spreadsheet and the tables provided at the Eowyn Challenge website. Amazingly the website is still there though it must be about 20 years old.
So yesterday I did the 6 mile walk with G. Today it was just the 1 mile into town and back for the weekly Welsh chat group. There were 9 of us there today, including a chap who actually lives in Manchester but who visits Wales when can. He's joined the group once before and I think he enjoyed the chat. By total coincidence, he told us he used to be a sailor on merchant ships in the past and had had sailed many times under the bridge in Baltimore that collapsed yesterday. Other topics of conversation included my baking failures, air fryers, the opening of a new delicatessen and various other topics of local interest.
Walking to Rivendell
Miles travelled yesterday: 6
Miles travelled today: 1
Miles travelled so far: 7
Miles still to go: 451
Percentage complete: 1.5%
Point reached on journey: We have left Bag End, crossed the Great Road from the Brandywine Bridge and entered Tookland. We are now looking back at lights of Hobbiton from first slopes of the Green Hill Country.
In several places on different social media platforms, people have been mentioning either the virtual walk to Mordor and/or re-reading The Lord of the Rings. It's as though the universe is telling me it's time to set off on the long road to Mordor again -- or perhaps just to Rivendell? We'll see...
I completed the journey to Mordor some years ago and then did almost all the various side journeys. I'm not using an app. I'm just using a spreadsheet and the tables provided at the Eowyn Challenge website. Amazingly the website is still there though it must be about 20 years old.
So yesterday I did the 6 mile walk with G. Today it was just the 1 mile into town and back for the weekly Welsh chat group. There were 9 of us there today, including a chap who actually lives in Manchester but who visits Wales when can. He's joined the group once before and I think he enjoyed the chat. By total coincidence, he told us he used to be a sailor on merchant ships in the past and had had sailed many times under the bridge in Baltimore that collapsed yesterday. Other topics of conversation included my baking failures, air fryers, the opening of a new delicatessen and various other topics of local interest.
