Hazard Rebirth: The second evolution

[Hazard]

 

Walked 10.73 miles.  We’ve entered the woods of Lothlorien, and met elves, who will escort us further in.

 

 

[WhiteGhost]

I had always assumed Moria was about the midpoint between Rivendell and Lothlorien but it seems it is much closer to Lothlorien.

[GregT.]

48 minutes ago, Hazard said:

Walked 10.73 miles.  We’ve entered the woods of Lothlorien, and met elves, who will escort us further in.

Via Con Dios, my friend.   I have you at 87% completed but I will not be able to track you after today.  I will lose all satellite communication for 9 days commencing tonight at 2300 local time.  I will be isolated on a Sub-tropical island with a beautiful woman and many fruity drinks.  I wish you luck in the last leg to Mordor, and hope that you get a prize.    I only offer these as support going forward:

 

 

 

And of Course:

 

 

Carry On!

[karinajean]

I'm glad that everything went well with your emergency and I hope your darling is feeling better!

[Hazard]

12 hours ago, WhiteGhost said:

I had always assumed Moria was about the midpoint between Rivendell and Lothlorien but it seems it is much closer to Lothlorien.

 

Yeah.  Been a while since I posted a map.  This should help:

 

 

[Hazard]

12 hours ago, GregT. said:

Via Con Dios, my friend.   I have you at 87% completed but I will not be able to track you after today.  I will lose all satellite communication for 9 days commencing tonight at 2300 local time.  I will be isolated on a Sub-tropical island with a beautiful woman and many fruity drinks.  I wish you luck in the last leg to Mordor, and hope that you get a prize.

 

Have a fun trip! 

[Hazard]

4 hours ago, karinajean said:

I'm glad that everything went well with your emergency and I hope your darling is feeling better!

 

Thanks.  <3.   She’s doing well.  It was painful for her as they put the new g-tube port in,  and she was justifiably cranky the rest of that evening, but she was back to her norm after a good night’s sleep.  Docs said the piece of the old one inside her stomach should pass through and out her rear-end without fuss.

 

 

[Hazard]

 

8.91 miles walked.

 

 

[Hazard]

 

 

My EPIC Quest of 2018: Reduce my relaxed waist-size by 12”

 

Start Date:  19 Dec 2017

Start Waist:  40”

 

End Date:  19 Dec 2018

Goal Waist:  28”

 

 

I’m giving myself 1 year to reach my EPIC Waist.   That seems reasonable to me.  A drop of 1” per month on average.  I want to keep the “R” of SMART goals.   “Reasonable.”  Thus, a 1 year timeframe goal.  A total of 12” in 12 months.

 

Re SMART, I believe it’s “Attainable”. A 28” waist at my 68.5” height comes out to a 40.9% waist-to-height ratio. Thanks to height and waist measurements given 5 years ago by our own @Waldo, I know that a 40.9% WtH ratio can be achieved.

 

I ran numbers through one of my spreadsheets, and it estimates I’ll reach my EPIC Waist goal when I’ve dropped down to somewhere in the neighborhood of 135-143 lbs of bodyweight.   As my waist gets progressively smaller, the weight estimate should get more accurate.

 

Now — Don’t Panic!

 

I’m aware that ~140 lbs for an adult male of 5’9” is freakin’ tiny.  I have no intention of living the rest of my life as a Stickman.  But I’ve got to take this journey first before I can get to where I want to be in the long-run. Attaining my EPIC WAIST is only Disc 1 of this game.  

 

 

 

 

[WhiteGhost]

Holy stickman, batman!  Even at my ideal weight my waist would still be 30-31 inches.  That is certainly epic, but I do worry at what cost success to such an epic endeavor will come ...

 

Is there a particular reason you picked 28 inches as the goal?

[Hazard]

16 hours ago, WhiteGhost said:

Is there a particular reason you picked 28 inches as the goal?

 

That’s the waist size at which my Waist-to-Height ratio would equal 40.9%.   

 

 

[Hazard]

 

6.96 miles walked.

 

 

I've mentioned before that I regularly read my wife to sleep, and that we were reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy.  Last night we finally came to the end, finishing the Return of the King. 

 

For our next reading venture, we’re doing Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

 

 

[Hazard]

 

1.12 miles walked.  This was a driving day.  Hard to walk inside a car.

 

 

[Hazard]

 

4.05 miles walked.

 

 

[Hazard]

 

Walked 1.16 miles. 

 

[Hazard]

 

1.33 miles walked.

 

 

[Hazard]

 

Walked 4.70 miles.

 

 

[Hazard]

 

4.00 miles walked.

 

 

[Hazard]

 

Walked 1.54 miles.

 

 

[Wobbegong]

2 hours ago, Hazard said:

Walked 1.54 miles.

On 12/18/2017 at 8:10 PM, GregT. said:

you have 13 days to go and I have you 46 miles from finish.

Greg is probably going to come back soonish since it's been around nine days but my calculations show you need another 1.5 miles over the next three days. Get it, Hazard. 

[Hazard]

9 hours ago, Wobbegong said:

Greg is probably going to come back soonish since it's been around nine days but my calculations show you need another 1.5 miles over the next three days. Get it, Hazard. 

 

Thanks.  

 

I’ve walked 329.79 miles since accepting Greg’s challenge.  I should complete that quest today.

 

[Hazard]

 

2.04 miles walked.

 

 

[Cataleya]

Congrats!

[GregT.]

Congrats Hazard!

 

  You did it with a day to spare.  you averaged 5.01 miles per day.

 

  PM with where to have your prize sent to. 

 

You are a Hobbit machine!

[Hazard]

 

Hey peeps.

 

Back from vaca~.  Restoring the groove of home life and setting things up for the new year.  Here’s a peek at one spreadsheet.  Note my Epic Waist Quest in the columns with green highlight.  Keeping it lit to draw my eyes and help stay on task.  

 

Under the Goal Waist column you can see how the schedule flows.  While the year’s Main Quest is big, you can see how I’m zooming it down NF-style to smaller weekly chunks, focusing my attacks to take out weekly waist mini-bosses.  As I conquer those weekly waist mini-bosses, I’ll be moving closer and closer to my year’s goal -->

 

Acquire the mythic Epic Waist!

 

Player One, Begin!