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runners2014-04-07 08:06 pm
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First April Check In
This month, we’re getting a little more ambitious: it’s Dreamwidth Runners in Space!
We have two challenges this month – an active hours challenge, and a distance challenge. Now there’s a little creative licence involved here, so bear with me…
For the mileage challenge, we’re also going back in time, to when the Space Shuttles were still active. We have 974.5 miles to the challenge - so we start at NASA in Houston where the primary astronaut training takes place - it's 1004 miles to the launch site at Cape Canaveral (but we're cheating slightly and getting a lift for 250 miles after New Orleans as as it’s about halfway and at least some of us will need a breather).
Once we get to Cape Canaveral, we don our spacesuits and anti-gravity boots and it’s 220 miles straight up to the ISS. (I did warn you that there would be some creative licence involved…).
For the active hours challenge, we have 133.5 hours to do. Astronauts on the International Space Station have to do at least 2 hours of activity per day, to maintain muscle tone and also the ability to actually walk when they get down to Earth. Our challenge is a 67 day residency on the ISS, during which time we will circuit the earth at least 1072 times (once every 90 minutes or so).
To see where we’ll be spending time the next month, you can take a tour
…and to see how to run in space – go here
And finally to the check-in – post your miles/hours in the comments and I’ll update as we go along!
Mileage
calico_jane - 5/20 = 25%
thalia - 0/80 = 0%
blnchflr - 0/20.5 = 0%
silveraspen - 0/20 = 0%
ridicully - 0/94 = 0%
meri_oddities - 0/110 = 0%
linaelyn - 0/75 = 0%
ell - 0/185 = 0%
semielliptical - 0/70 = 0%
ilanarama - 0/150 = 0%
temve - 0/150 = 0%
Active Hours
calico_jane - 5/20 = 25%
thalia - 0/8 = 0%
blnchflr - 0/7.5 = 0%
silveraspen - 0/10 = 0%
ridicully - 0/20 = 0%
meri_oddities - 0/8 = 0%
linaelyn - 0/10 = 0%
ell - 0/8 = 0%
semielliptical - 0/8 = 0%
cadenzamuse - 0/10 = 0%
ilanarama - 0/4 = 0%
temve - 0/20 = 0%
Hope I got everyone - let me know if not.
Good luck everyone!
(And if anyone can let me know how to properly insert pictures, you can pick the eatery in New Orleans rest stop - my brain is apparently switched off at the moment).
We have two challenges this month – an active hours challenge, and a distance challenge. Now there’s a little creative licence involved here, so bear with me…
For the mileage challenge, we’re also going back in time, to when the Space Shuttles were still active. We have 974.5 miles to the challenge - so we start at NASA in Houston where the primary astronaut training takes place - it's 1004 miles to the launch site at Cape Canaveral (but we're cheating slightly and getting a lift for 250 miles after New Orleans as as it’s about halfway and at least some of us will need a breather).
Once we get to Cape Canaveral, we don our spacesuits and anti-gravity boots and it’s 220 miles straight up to the ISS. (I did warn you that there would be some creative licence involved…).
For the active hours challenge, we have 133.5 hours to do. Astronauts on the International Space Station have to do at least 2 hours of activity per day, to maintain muscle tone and also the ability to actually walk when they get down to Earth. Our challenge is a 67 day residency on the ISS, during which time we will circuit the earth at least 1072 times (once every 90 minutes or so).
To see where we’ll be spending time the next month, you can take a tour
…and to see how to run in space – go here
And finally to the check-in – post your miles/hours in the comments and I’ll update as we go along!
Mileage
calico_jane - 5/20 = 25%thalia - 0/80 = 0%blnchflr - 0/20.5 = 0%silveraspen - 0/20 = 0%ridicully - 0/94 = 0%meri_oddities - 0/110 = 0%linaelyn - 0/75 = 0%ell - 0/185 = 0%semielliptical - 0/70 = 0%ilanarama - 0/150 = 0%temve - 0/150 = 0%Active Hours
calico_jane - 5/20 = 25%thalia - 0/8 = 0%blnchflr - 0/7.5 = 0%silveraspen - 0/10 = 0%ridicully - 0/20 = 0%meri_oddities - 0/8 = 0%linaelyn - 0/10 = 0%ell - 0/8 = 0%semielliptical - 0/8 = 0%cadenzamuse - 0/10 = 0%ilanarama - 0/4 = 0%temve - 0/20 = 0%Hope I got everyone - let me know if not.
Good luck everyone!
(And if anyone can let me know how to properly insert pictures, you can pick the eatery in New Orleans rest stop - my brain is apparently switched off at the moment).
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This is the BEST running group EVER. Iditarod, Nautical Voyage of Scientific Discovery, and now WE ARE IN SPACE!?!?! (The only trouble is, how am I going to find a challenge for next month that will be anything like on-par with the adventures we've already had thus far?)
My mileage & active hours were way off-kilter this week, because... reasons. But I worked hard!
Running miles: 8
hiking-type active hours: 6.5 (28 miles)
biking-type active hours: 2.0 (24 miles)
free weights active hours: 1.5
Which means I'm WAY behind on my miles run (about 10% of the monthly total) but I already hit 100% of my goal for active hours.