LOTR Conqueror Challenge

Hello, my good friends!

I hope you are all safe, blessed, and doing well!  I have been enjoying the decent weather lately and I am looking forward to the 70 degree days we are going to have soon!

Several months ago, I decided to start doing some virtual distance challenges.  I always like having a challenge when it comes to workouts.  While I try to walk on an almost daily basis, I wanted to push myself a little harder.  I had been seeing The Conqueror Challenges online, including a Lord Of The Rings event.  I looked into this site a little more, and noticed that they had different challenges.  They had varying distances; anywhere from 21 miles to well over 2,000 miles!

For my first challenge, I decided on Estrada Real, which I believe was a little over 80 miles.  If you registered early, there was even a chance to win a gold plated finishers medal (unfortunately I didn't win).  I also put out a request to my family to see if they wanted to join.  My sister Bridgett also signed up!  It was so cool that we got to work together to meet our goal!

These challenges are pretty cool.  There is a virtual map to follow, and some even have street views, so you can see where you would be on the actual trail!  They also send you virtual postcards along the way with some interesting local facts about the area. 

Since my sister and I loved this challenge, we signed up for the next new virtual event, Cotswold Way.  This was set in England, which is cool because we have a lot of family ancestors from this country. I also once again opened this up to the family, and my cousin Sarah decided to join us on our challenge.  With all 3 of us, we crushed this 97 mile challenge!

Since The Conqueror Events seems to put out new challenges about once a month, I was patiently waiting for their new one.  My patience definitely paid off.  Their new even was in Transylvania. and I think that is just plain awesome!  And to top that off, they had a buy 2 get 1 free offer.  I kept shuffling the random cards until I got the bundle that I wanted.  My 3 challenges: Transylvania, Appalachian Trail, and the first in The Lord Of The Rings Challenge.

I'm pumped!  I'm saving the Appalachian Trail Challenge to start on New Year's Day.  This will be opened up to anyone close to me that would want to join me on this almost 2,000 mile virtual challenge.  For the Transylvania Challenge, I opened it up to my family, and Bridgett and Sarah are once again with me on this challenge.  I believe we are roughly 25% done with it (maybe more).  

And then there's the LOTR challenge, which I am doing individually.  I have never read the books or seen the movies.  It's not like I never wanted to (unlike Star Wars, I will NEVER watch that).  I just haven't.  I figured what a perfect time to start reading the books!  Since I know that these are long books, I purchased the kindle version.  I didn't want to order a physical book online and then the print be too small for more.  It's not that I need large print, but I don't like what seems like tiny print.

I am going to continue writing about this these challenges, especially LOTR.  LOTR has I believe 5 challenges total, so it may take me a bit.  And I am very much enjoying reading the first book already!

I hope I inspire you in some way.  Whether it be to get out there and exercise or to read more.  I'd love to hear from you if I do!

If you're interested, hear is my referral link for the Conqueror Events: theconqueror.events/r/BH9295 (copy and paste if needed)