First April Check In

[calico_jane]

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).

Comments

[blnchflr]

Great scenario :D

9 miles for me, no active hours, oops.

ETA: my active hours goal is 3.5 hours (walking to prepare for hiking) - 7.5 was including the running.

[thalia]

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Fun challenge! For me, 18 miles running, 1 hour non-running.

[meri_oddities]

I'm at 31 miles for the month and 2 hours of non-running exercise.

[semielliptical]

13 miles running, 1.5 hours other activity.

Looking forward to moving up, up, up!

[temve]

*goes to look for lightsaber just in case*

37.5 miles run in April so far, and 5.75 hours of activity, all biking.

[ell]

Brilliant challenge! I love it!

So far for me: 52 miles run and 1.25 hours activity, mostly sword practice

[ridicully]

Ohh. Fun challenge!

For me it's 27km run so far this month, and 3.3h of activity, all climbing.

[ilanarama]

30 miles run for me, zero hours of core work, oops. Nifty idea for a challenge!

Also, now I want to run in space.

[linaelyn]

Sorry for the very-late check in! *takes tardy demerits & points-off Gryffindor*

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.

[liv]

Hello, some friends rec'd this community to me. Is it ok for new people to join in the challenge? I'm fine with just lurking if that's more appropriate; I'm really enjoying having an imaginary route to run.

[calico_jane]

Greetings and welcome!

The more the merrier I think. It may be a little late to officially join the challenge this month, since we're two weeks in - but you can join in as a supernumerary (so post and update your targets but not have them officially be a part of the challenge). Then in two weeks when we have a new challenge you can join in at the start.

Let me know your target until the end of the month and I'll add to the next update post!

[liv]

Cool, thank you! I would really like to be a supernumerary this month. My goal is 25 miles in April, and I've covered just over 10 miles ie 42%. So I'm a bit behind schedule but hoping to catch up. I'm not sure about active hours, I'll have a think about what's a sensible goal to set and how to measure it before the May challenge starts.