July Challenge: Sundays will be weekly update-day. Today is Sunday!

[blnchflr]

So, I had this idea that if I couldn't find a fitting real-life or fictional distance, it might be fun to just head out the door and see where the road takes us?

As it turns out, our combined goal distance + active hours (in distance at average human walking speed) is pretty much spot on for the Wikipedia distance of the Limpopo River.

However, mulling it over, I decided travelling along the Limpopo River would be 1) a bitch to map, 2) maybe actually boring in the long run, 3) really suck in terms of mosquitoes.

So we're heading out the road and seeing where it takes us! And learning some European geography along the way, unless we paid attention at school and already know all the big cities.

We'll start at Skagen, the northern-most tip of Denmark, and head south for the German Border. When we get to Hamburg, Germany, y'all will vote on whether we continue south through Germany, turn east toward Poland, or West towards The Netherlands.

I hope you'll enjoy the trip :) !

Please post your mileage and active hours so far in the comments.

Comments

[blnchflr]

I'm at 14.3 km and 1.5 active hours.

Went on a running sightseeing tour of Christiania today - it was not cheap, but really well organized and run, and I most definitely got a workout, although the route was only 6,5 km!

[franzi1981]

I'm at 9.45km! Broke the 5k for the first time when I joined two friends on a 1 min / 1 min run/walk interval thing today ;) (for a total of 6k)

[blnchflr]

Yay! Run/walks are the best.

[franzi1981]

Yes! And while the total pace will, of course, be slower, my actual running pace is higher and on the whole, it gets me further. I might use the interval training more, raising the running intervals, of course, continuously...

[semielliptical]

21 miles, 1 active hour.

Looking forward to our travels!

[temve]

19.5 miles, 9 active hours. I suspect that with a triathlon looming, my running mileage will again fall short but I'll happily be your bike support and swim us across any river crossings we may encounter :)

Meanwhile, I'll be enjoying the "one-foot-in-each-sea" effect of Skagen:

[blnchflr]

I haven't been there since I was 3 or 4 - ought to go again, but it so far away (for us Danes, not being used to great distances)!

[franzi1981]

Heh! I was there just last year, during a Denmark holiday. :)

[blnchflr]

Aw!

[temve]

And you, in fact, took the above picture of me :)

[franzi1981]

;) I remember that!

Here's recent!me in that very same location ;)

[blnchflr]

Aww, I wanna stand with my feet in the ocean, *whines*.

Oh, wait, I'm going this afternoon \o/

[ell]

I think we should all meet there sometime in the next year or two!

[ilanarama]

What a super photo!

[meri_oddities]

I'm at about 40 miles and 2 active hours.

[liv]

I really like the idea of both running along the Limpopo and running from Skagen to Hamburg and then onwards through Europe! Thank you for leading this month.

I've done 7/40 km so far this month, due to my running being restricted by asthma flare-ups. Still 17% of my goal so there's still time to catch up. Also 7 active hours of 25, or 28%.

[ell]

OK, so far 34 miles (but that counts today's run) and 6.5 active hours (mostly biking and swimming last week)

I love the idea of running from where you live :-) Why not run to our place this month (Frankfurt) and then next month we can leave from my door and start running to another group member's place?

[blnchflr]

Because you live too close - we'll be running farther than Frankfurt :)

[ell]

Yay us, then we'll go somewhere else :-)

[ridicully]

I'm at 7km and 0h active time so far.

[linaelyn]

This is very cool! Now I want to follow our travels on Google Earth, look around a little! :-)

Unfortunately, I didn't add much to our mileage this week. I'm at ZERO MILES (0 mi.) running for the month. :-/ However, I managed 8 hours of hiking/active time, 7 of that in a 35 pound (15.9 kg) pack. My knees can still do this, yay!

Also, yes, I definitely owe all of y'all that final wrap-up post for Middle Earth. I haven't forgotten! Sometime today I'll get it done.

[blnchflr]

8 hours of active time is nothing to scoff at!

I think every one of us have had SUCH good intentions when we've captained, but turns out it's more work than anticipated, and I'm really tired tonight and will do it tomorrow, etc. :)

I'll freely admit I'll use Google to map our route, and because I'm now attached to the idea of learning a bit of geography of where large (for relative values while still in Denmark, *snort*) European cities are in relation to each other, we'll be travelling along highways instead of roads that would actually be suited for running/hiking, *hands*.

[ilanarama]

12.6 miles so far this month. I guess I should have counted hiking miles as I have way more of those!