DW Runners

How's it going? Comment with your miles/kms and/or active time, and let me know if you're reporting for just this week or the entire month to date.

Hi all! Our accomplishments so far this month. As a group, we ran the distance of over 5.5 marathons (151 miles), and added 8 hours beyond that!

ilanarama 54 miles (27%)
linaelyn
meri_oddities 22 miles (22%), 1 hour (12.5%)
raininshadows 8.9 miles (44.5%), 1 hour (25%)
ridicully 20 km (20%)
semielliptical 48 miles (24%), 2 hours (33%)
temve 6 miles (20%), 4 hours (14.8%)

If you missed the check-in post and want me to add your update, you can comment here. Onward through the next week!

How has the beginning of the month been for you? Comment with your miles/kms and/or active time so far.

Hi there runners! Anyone up for a September challenge? Nothing fancy, I'll just do a weekly check-in and month-end round up post.

If you're interested, comment with your goals for miles/km and/or active hours for the month. And if you're working toward any specific running/exercise goals, that would be fun to hear about, too.

Here is the final tally for the month of March!

alexseanchai - 50% mileage goal
temve - 100% mileage and 100% time goal [1]
raininshadows - 76% mileage and 100% time goal
semielliptical - 85% mileage and 138% time goal
ell - 32% mileage and 148% time goal [2]
ridicully - 12% mileage and 100% time goal
meri_oddities - 101% mileage and 100% time goal
blnchflr - 90% mileage and 71% time goal
ilanarama - 111% mileage goal [3]
zulu - 28% mileage goal

[1] winner of the "Pinpoint Accuracy" award. Or maybe the "Didn't keep track but made up the numbers" award... :-)
[2] winner of the "Skewed Priorities" award. See, if you'd just run in that extra time you would totally have beaten your mileage goal! :-)
[3] winner of the "Sandbagger" award. In my defense I didn't quite make my goal last time so I was conservative!

cadenzamuse did not declare goals but added some mileage and time to our aggregate. Which totals out to 584 miles, approximately 82% of our planned 714 miles for the month. This is the distance that ultrarunner Lisa Smith-Batchen ran as the "Quad Badwater", a fundraising stunt in which she ran the 135-mile Badwater course four times and added on a little extra, over a bit more than 14 days - less than half the time it took all eleven of us to cover this distance! (Of course, she wasn't doing anything else other than eating and sleeping...) [It really is worth reading the linked article, if only to convince yourself that you never want to do this.]

Our total active hours added up to 122, 120% of our aggregate goal. 122 hours is also, apparently, the duration of the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 in 1977, as it inspired the Screamers, an American synthpunk group founded in 1975, to write the song 122 Hours of Fear. Hopefully you enjoyed your active hours and they didn't scare you.

No foolin' - let me know your total distance (in M or km) and total active time if applicable. And if you are willing to take on running the April challenge, please let me know that, too!

This is the slightly-belated challenge report (okay, a lot belated, I could have posted last week) but NOT the final check-in - we'll do that after the month is over, since it's just a couple more days. As of March 21 (three weeks in) we have the following statistics:

alexseanchai - 50% mileage goal
temve - 73% mileage goal and 76% time goal
raininshadows - 58% mileage goal and 56% time goal
semielliptical - 49% mileage goal and 88% time goal
ell - 27% mileage goal and 94% time goal
ridicully - 12% mileage goal and 67% time goal
meri_oddities - 65% mileage goal and 83% time goal
blnchflr - 63% mileage goal and 71% time goal
ilanarama - 67% mileage goal
zulu - 28% mileage goal
cadenzamuse - no goals, but yay for 10.8 miles and 1.5 hours for the month!

In aggregate we have run 391.8 miles, which is the straight-line distance between Bradpole, Dorset (on the southern coast of England) and Crieff, Perth and Kinross (north of Edinburgh, Scotland). However, if we were going to actually run from one city to the other, it would be a lot farther, since we'd have to actually, you know, follow roads. It is also the distance from the surface of the Earth to the origin point of an earthquake that hit the Philippines on Sunday, October 04, 2009 at 10:58:01 UTC. In addition we have exercised for 83.75 hours, which is 3.5 days, which is a lot! And in June of 1876, a special train took 83.75 hours to travel from New York to San Francisco - which is a lot farther than 391.8 miles!

If you didn't check in last time, I just copied your previous information over! If you just forgot or didn't have time, add it in to the final check-in, which will begin on Friday.

I will be unable to run next month's challenge - any takers?

As of March 15th, we have the following statistics:

alexseanchai - 38% mileage goal
temve - 59% mileage goal and 58% time goal
raininshadows - 32% mileage goal and 56% time goal
semielliptical - 27% mileage goal and 38% time goal
ell - 27% mileage goal and 94%(!) time goal
ridicully - 5% mileage goal and 53% time goal
meri_oddities - 48% mileage goal and 67% time goal
blnchflr - 13% mileage goal and 0% time goal, but that's only because I'm shifting her report to next week
ilanarama - 48% mileage goal
zulu - 28% mileage goal
cadenzamuse - no goals, but yay for your running and activing, which I will add on to the rest!

In aggregate we have run 264.6 miles, which is the total length of the four interurban rail lines connecting Dallas, TX with surrounding cities...in 1916. It is also the distance by air between Bangladesh and Bhutan. In addition we have exercised 68,75 hours which is almost 69 hours (link NSFW - it's a porn star website describing this movie, which is a porn version of the Eddie Murphy movie "48 hours").

If you didn't check in last time, I just copied your previous information over! If you just forgot or didn't have time, add it in to this week's check-in. Which is now! Please comment with your total distance in miles or km, and total active hours, for the month so far!

Friends! Runners! Countrymen (and non-countrymen)! Lend me your shoes!

For the first week of March, we have the following statistics:

temve - 27% mileage goal and 20% time goal
ridicully - 0% mileage goal and 33% time goal
meri_oddities - 15% mileage goal and 17% time goal
blnchflr - 13% time goal and 0% time goal
ilanarama - 25% mileage goal, no time goal
zulu - 28% mileage goal, no time goal

In aggregate we have run 86.9 miles (or 139 km) which is the distance between Cherthala and Thirumalapuram, India. In addition we have exercised 10.5 hours, which is the amount of time Rand Paul spoke from his Senate desk in a symbolic filibuster in May last year.

As of yesterday (or today, whatever), how many miles have you run in March? How many hours have you, um, actived?

How many miles or km, and active hours if applicable, did you manage March 1-7?