Eowyn Challenge: (There and) Back Again

[pegkerr]

I added up the mileage I've gone since leaving Mount Doom, and spent an absurd amount of time making an Excel spreadsheet to calculate how far various members of the Fellowship traveled, both There and Back Again, subtotalling at various landmarks, using Karen Wynn Fonstad's figures. I've calculated that Frodo's entire journey (Bag end to Mount Doom and back again, and then onto the Grey Havens) was 3884 miles. Sam's (the same as Frodo's journey, adding miles back to Bag End from the Grey Havens) was 4091 miles. Merry's journey was 4334 miles, give or take a few. Aragorn's journey (if you count him starting from the Prancing Pony) was 3223. Pippin did the honors for the longest journey: 4531 miles.

Anyway, I have gone from Mt. Doom (1779 miles) to Morannon where Sam and Frodo were nursed by Aragorn (1879 miles), to Minas Tirith for Aragorn's coronation (1999), and I am now 28 miles past Minas Tirith, on the way to Isengard.

I did workouts both days this weekend. I'm trying to devote myself anew to eating healthy and cutting portion sizes.

But I remain intensely irritated by the fact that I've done 225 workouts this year, the most I've ever done in a year, but yet I weigh five pounds more than I did last year. And yeah, yeah, I know that muscle weighs more than fat. But I'm still over the normal range of weight for my height. This is So Unfair. Phooey.

Comments

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

men (w) - h - women (w)
201 - 72 - 185

((blinks)) Wow. I think my ideal weight at 6' is about 175, although that was when I was just thin, not muscular or working out at all. (Of course, dummy me, when I weighed 145, I thought that was Just Awesome -- hey, who needs menstrual periods anyway?! -- and then was crushed when I found out models who are six feet weigh 125 lbs. Stupid college girl that I was.)

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

So your ideal weight is well under the max weight, and you'd be fine for your entrance exam if you suddenly, for some reason, wanted to enlist. *g*

And mine at a little under 5'7" when I'm fit is around 163-165, so I'm right up against the tippy top of the scale (155 is hollow cheekbones and projecting hips)--but I've got a *very* heavy bone structure (I am, alas, considerably more than that currently. Viva Las Vegas!). And when I was the fittest I've ever been in my adult life, I weighed in at 180--but I was weight training and kickboxing.

I don't know how the Navy does it, but the Army has slightly lower max weights, and allows people to go over them as long as their measurements are within certain parameters.

The point is--ideal weight is a chimera. *g* Or, if not a chimera, a guideline at best.

[dawn-came-dim.livejournal.com]

I don't know how the Navy does it, but the Army has slightly lower max weights, and allows people to go over them as long as their measurements are within certain parameters.

It's because of ice water training -- the more pounds you have, the better your odds of surviving full body submersion in near-freezing water.