There And Back Again!

tayloryay

Saw this group forming on the main forums, and thought you girls would be interested!!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/19749-the-shire-to-mordor-and-back-a-fellowship

The original post:

Hi guys, a few of us fellow MFPers were discussing in another thread about possibly creating a group to walk/run the distance from The Shire to Mordor as found in J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings. If you are unfamiliar with Mordor, or Lord of the Rings, please see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire_(Middle-earth)
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordor

After some initial searching discovered a group on MFP called 'To Mordor.' It appears that once there, this group is staying at Mordor. However, in the spirit of and honor of our good friend Bilbo Baggins, we want to take a loftier approach and begin a journey 'There and Back Again,' essentially a round trip journey to and from Mordor.

Some good information of the journey is here:
http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/07/23/walking/

Theres even a fully explorable 3d world map laid out in the Outerra game engine:
http://forum.outerra.com/index.php?topic=1491.0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLHHS5Q_m0g

The distance according to the above journey link:

you need to walk a total of 1779 miles to get from Hobbiton to Mt. Doom.

Multiply that by 2 for the round trip and you are at 3,558 miles.

What it boils down to is that we are a fellowship of walkers/joggers/runners wanting to band together and motivate each other toward this lofty goal.

I've created this thread for suggestions and ideas regarding how we go about accomplishing this goal, both in how are we structuring the group and what our plan is to execute this mission.

Chime in, tell us we're crazy, tell us you want to join the fellowship, say hi!!