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  • VelvetKey
    VelvetKey Posts: 193 Member
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    Welcome! Dancing your way is a great idea! How are you going to track it? Are you doing a specific kind of dance? (Sorry for the questions - I'm a former professional dancer, and I cannot believe it never occurred to me to dance to Rivendell, LOL.)

    I have a FitBit that logs my steps and my miles for me (as long as I remember to wear it...:grumble: ) So I sync it up at the end of my dance workouts and take the mileage off of my online log and add it to my ticker.

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  • SaharaZaraMorocco
    SaharaZaraMorocco Posts: 136 Member
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    I have been going back and forth on the Fitbit. I'm going to have to look into it a final time and make a decision.
    So, I have another question for you - I was trying to add a ticker for this to MFP and I could not figure out how to do it. It seemed like it only let you use the preset MFP one. How did you add yours? I must be missing a sticky or post somewhere on how to do this. TIA! :smile:
  • VelvetKey
    VelvetKey Posts: 193 Member
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    I have been going back and forth on the Fitbit. I'm going to have to look into it a final time and make a decision.
    So, I have another question for you - I was trying to add a ticker for this to MFP and I could not figure out how to do it. It seemed like it only let you use the preset MFP one. How did you add yours? I must be missing a sticky or post somewhere on how to do this. TIA! :smile:

    I have the FitBit classic, because they hadn't invented Premium yet, and it works just dandy. Then when they synced up their website with MFP everything got a lot easier (even if they're still working out some of the kinks!).

    MFP used to let us customize all of our signatures, until it got too much for the boards to handle, so originally my travel ticker code was in my signature. Now I just paste it into the body of the posts (only the ones on this board, though).

    I use the tickers from www.lilyslim.com because they're pretty clean-cut and don't have any extra advertising text.

    And then just use the [ img ] IMAGE SOURCE CODE GOES HERE [ /img ] but remove the spaces in the img tags.

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  • SaharaZaraMorocco
    SaharaZaraMorocco Posts: 136 Member
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    Ah, I see! Thanks so much, Katie! This is great info. :flowerforyou:

    [img]<a href="http://lilyslim.com/"><img src="http://sfgf.lilyslim.com/Obmlm4.png&quot; width="400" height="80" border="0" alt="LilySlim Fitness goals tickers" /></a>[/img]
  • VelvetKey
    VelvetKey Posts: 193 Member
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    There...I hope that works...

    So just sandwich the http://sfgf.lilyslim.com/Obmlm4.png link between the image tags like this:

    [ img ] http://sfgf.lilyslim.com/Obmlm4.png [ /img ] (After removing all the spaces in that line.)

    No problem! :happy:
  • SaharaZaraMorocco
    SaharaZaraMorocco Posts: 136 Member
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    I must be just the lamest - I cannot get this to work for me! I haven't ever had this much trouble with a ticker on other forums in the past. So sorry!

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  • BMcC9
    BMcC9 Posts: 4,367 Member
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    This is sooo COOOLL!! (I always wondered how many flights-of-steps up equalled the climb up to The Pass where the giant spider is [Sam gets Sent Away by Frodo part-way up]

    Question: I started a Walk It Out program on my Wii just last month, and racked up ~ 125 miles throughout July ... is it ok if I apply that to my "first leg out of Bag End" ?
  • scarlettvetter
    scarlettvetter Posts: 41
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    Hi everyone,
    I'm Laura, 33, live near Minneapolis, MN. I started planning my walk to Rivendell a couple of weeks ago (but went on vacation, so I'm only a couple of miles in). I will be seriously starting my journey today! I'm planning to read "The Hobbit" during the first part of this journey (and hopefully be done with the book before the movie comes out in December), but a girl only has so much free time.

    I'm very excited about this journey!
  • BMcC9
    BMcC9 Posts: 4,367 Member
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    Question: I started a Walk It Out program on my Wii just last month, and racked up ~ 125 miles throughout July ... is it ok if I apply that to my "first leg out of Bag End" ?

    I decided that New Month = New challenge and new journey. So I counting my cumulative mileage starting with what I did last night (Aug. 1) See you on the Bag End to Rivendale thread!
  • monicalosesweight
    monicalosesweight Posts: 1,173 Member
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    Hey Anthony. I just found this group too! It looks cool. Oh, if you have a FitBit (I just got one so I've been exploring), they have under the Log/Activities tab a place where it tells you daily the miles you've walked. I'm going to see if I can keep a journal as I've only been on for a few days. I don't know if you have one but if yes - that might be an option.
  • ladyval
    ladyval Posts: 6 Member
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    Hello! My name is Valerie, I'm 43 and live in SouthWest Missouri. I had heard about the Eowyn Challenge a few years ago. Recently, some friends & I started the Bag End to Rivendell walk. I was curious to see if there was any discussion on MFP about the walk to Mordor and was thrilled to find this group. Currently, I'm 6.95 miles in. This is proving to be a fun way to motivate myself to walk!
  • skinnygeekwithin
    skinnygeekwithin Posts: 299 Member
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    I am way way late to this challenge but I'd still love to participate! I'd love to walk from Bag End to Rivendale and see where I end up from there, but that is a good starting point. I think I will start this on January 1st.

    If any of you out there are runners, do you count that as your mileage as well or is this strictly just walking? Either way I'd still love to participate!
  • Jaessa
    Jaessa Posts: 122 Member
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    I believe if you are moving it counts. Walking, running, biking, swimming, etc. are all ways to get us closer to our goals.
  • skinnygeekwithin
    skinnygeekwithin Posts: 299 Member
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    Thanks Jaessa!
  • glittermouse
    glittermouse Posts: 590 Member
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    Hello! I saw this thread on the boards a while back, but I forgot all about it until a friend sent it to me again today. I'm excited to get started on this.
    Cheers!
    G.Mouse
  • AmeliaJ92
    AmeliaJ92 Posts: 586 Member
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    Hello! I'm Amelia (as you can probably guess from my username). I'm 20 and from Texas but spend most of my time in Alabama while attending school. I am going to try to make it from Bag End to Rivendell first, and if that goes well, I'll keep going on to Mordor. I probably won't start for about another week. I like to use the free workout machines at the student rec center so I'll wait until I get back to campus.
  • blueboxblues
    blueboxblues Posts: 73 Member
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    I only found the existence of these challenges yesterday; I'm on my treadmill 3 times a week anyway so this should be a fun way to push myself a little further - the second I hit 30 minutes I stop. I decided I'm not going to count the miles I've done this week and will just start tomorrow...to Rivendell!
  • Aello11
    Aello11 Posts: 312 Member
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    Hi ... just found you all :smile:

    I am almost 50 (shhhh don't tell) --- from Pittsburgh and biking to Mordor to kick Sauron's butt. :bigsmile:
  • rheinrich17
    rheinrich17 Posts: 8 Member
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    Hi -
    I'm Rachel, and I'm thrilled to be starting off from Bag End today. I'm going to count distance on my exercise bike as well (considering it to be my hobbit pony). Would welcome any new friends along the way. :)
  • Lam75
    Lam75 Posts: 72
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    Hi folks. I need some motivation to get my butt to the gym and hopefully this it. I am a Tolkien nut, play Lord of the Rings online and love the films. I am 37, live in the UK and am a teacher.

    My journey starts today - I am leaving Bag End!

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