walk to Rivendell

Now on mile 47, day 3 of the hobbits’ journey, not yet at Famer Maggot’s:

A deep-banked stream below the hill cuts across their path. Looking back, they see a Black Rider on the hillcrest where they had camped. They force through the bushes alongside the stream.

I started walking to Rivendell ages ago, but stopped for some reason. I think I just got behind adding up my distance. Got a new pedometer that uploads steps/distance/etc to the computer, so it’s doing the adding for me.

So starting again, as of 3/1/10. 20 days on, I’m 35 miles into it. On (or beside) the Stock Rd, just after hiding in the hollow from the Black Rider.

(Black Rider, © John Howe)

I haven’t tracked my distance in over a year. If I do this again, I’ll start from 0.

I have no idea where I am now. I have my steps recorded in my palm, but I haven’t put them into walkertracker for ages. I could be anywhere!

I’m past Bree and heading into Chetland.

I’ve started an account on http://shieldmaidens.net/ I’m mollydot there too. I’ll keep walker tracker as my main one, because it works out the miles for me.

I’ve another 8700 steps done so far today.

Edit: reached 10991 by the end of the day.

Just heard about and started this today. I’ve set up a walkertracker account to keep track: http://walkertracker.com/walker.php?mollydot