Orodruin, the Mountain of Fire

[linaelyn]

Hard and cruel and bitter is the land that met our gaze.



We looked upon Orodruin, The Mountain of Fire. Ever and anon, the furnaces far below its ashen cone would grow hot and with a great surging and throbbing pour forth rivers of molten rock from the chasms in its sides. Some would flow blazing towards [the site of the former] Barad-dûr down great channels; some would wind their way into the stone plain until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth...

We have crossed the stinking, fume-laden wastes of Mordor. We have won through, and made it to Mt. Doom, where the Ring of Power, the One Ring, was destroyed.



And we made it here to our final destination by the end of Week 3!! HUZZAH FOR THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RUN!!! You know what this means? EAGLE RIDES FOR EVERYONE!!!

(um, yes, I made a math error which resulted in our goal distance for the month being much lower than for previous months. So, um, whoops, my bad. But that means no need for guilt over the stuff that got in the way of running time, this month?)

Let's see how far back we can make it on the journey home, okay? Here's our totals for the previous check in, and if you CHECK IN this one last time, I'll happily total it all up for the two months and tell us all how far we have come, across this grand adventure through Middle Earth.

Distances Run --
linaelyn : 51.3/75 mi
ell : 67/100 mi
ilanarama : 123/200 mi
ridicully : 8/75 km
franzi1981 : 6.24 km/supernumery
temve : 44.5/80 mi
liv : 13.5/40 km
semielliptical : 67/85 mi
meri_oddities : 66/110 mi
estel : 80.3/100 mi (+7.1/10 mi)

Active Hours --
linaelyn : 14.5/15
ell : 29/20
ilanarama : 2/4
franzi1981 : 2/supernumery
ridicully : 24/25
temve : 16.25/20
liv : 11/20
semielliptical : 5.5/8
meri_oddities : 2/8
estel : 1.25/4

Comments

[temve]

Whoohoo, I get to feel not-bad about being way behind my goal this month what with catching a cold and a week-long work thing that had me running around a lot but not actually running!

Miles: 57.4 out of 80
Activity: 21 out of 20

Thank you for taking us There and Back Again, as it were...

[estel]

I achieved my goal of walking 100 miles in a single month!
Active hours: 1.5/4
Running distance 9.9/10K (this is counted in the walking + running totals below)
Walking+Running = 102.99 miles. Yay!

Thanks Lin for making this fun and helping me have a goal to work toward.

[linaelyn]

Total miles run for June: 72/75 = 96% of goal
Total active hours for June: 16.75/15 = 112% of goal

I'm reasonably pleased with the month's exercise. This week, I managed a 12 mile run, and I'm feeling really good about the possibility of making it to half-marathon distance by the time I hit my 50th birthday, later this year. It's a target I'm hoping to make.

[ell]

Feel free to re-adjust my June running goal to 110 miles! Then note that I achieved 100% of this goal!!!!!!!! Last week, I managed to finish all my runs and then yesterday, I only needed 6.7 more to get to the original goal, so I did it :-) It really was crucial for me this month to have a goal and especially, a slightly hard goal to work for. I'm not out of Mirkwood yet, but the runner challenge helped me so much.

And as for activity, 32 hours total, including 3800 sword cuts and 9 km swum!

Also, guess what I found to run to last week? The Nicol Williamson recording of the Hobbit! So, my last two runs were headed to the Lonely mountain with a hobbit of mutual acquaintance, 13 dwarves, and a wizard of some repute.

[meri_oddities]

143.5 miles. (110 goal) Yay!
7 hours other activity (8 goal) Not too bad.

Next month 120 goal.

[ell]

you totally can do it! and thank you for the wonderful journey of the last two months!

[franzi1981]

So my total for June is 13.44km and I decided to count some of that walking I did in Philly in addition to another walk I took. So I'm at 5 hours additional activity.

[semielliptical]

I ended June with:
90 miles
7 active hours

Thanks for leading us to the mountain, and congrats to everyone for getting there and beyond!

[ilanarama]

164 miles run, 2.5 hours of core work (oops). Thanks for running the extended challenge!

[liv]

I was generally doing well this month except that in the last week I ended up going on lots and lots of long walks and didn't have any time or energy for running. So running distance 35/40 km, 88% of my June target. But I was active for over 31½ hours in June, 15 of them since 22^nd, way surpassing my target of 20 hours.

[ridicully]

I'm sorry, I completely failed at everything in June. Even checking in on time. Oh well, better luck next time.


Final numbers:
21km/75km
26h/25h