It's still hard to get there, and most deny its existence, but the time I ran trails in middle/inner earth was the best week of training I've ever had (though it was hard to actually measure the week, with the different daylight/hours of the 'day.')
Regardless, 12 runs on what were the best spongy trails I've ever encountered means the odd scare from a wooly mammoth was more than worth it.
Anyone else have an Middle Earth stories? Favorite foods found there? Stories about permanent inhabitants?
Running in Middle Earth sucks. I tried doing 6x800 on the trail. Every time I got to the end of a rep, and just before I could hit the lap button on my watch, some old dude says some magic words and waves a stick at me. Next thing I know I am right back where I started my 800 rep. Middle Earth is full of assholes.
mirkwood 9if you can avoif getting lost) and the shire have the best trails. rohan is a little too windy for my taste. mordor is sooty and hot. avoid anywhere south of gondor. i also advise against rhun and the east.
If you aren't in the Misty Mountains you are wasting your time. Only place to get in good altitude training.
I do stairs in Orthanc.
sure is nerd city up in this thread
The mines of moria are great for hills and heat conditioning. But gondor is great, flat, open, good weather, no elves or dwarves.
firefly wrote:
mirkwood 9if you can avoif getting lost) and the shire have the best trails. rohan is a little too windy for my taste. mordor is sooty and hot. avoid anywhere south of gondor. i also advise against rhun and the east.
why advise against rhun? rhun is so flat, it's great to do speedwork there.
Says the guy posting on the running message board.
asdasfsdfa wrote:
But gondor is great, flat, open, good weather, no elves or dwarves.
Typical letsrun racist.
I suspect most of these posts in various usernames were all by the OP. Everyone knows most people on letsrun don't read books.
One does not just "run" into Mordor
o lol'd
Well, technically, if you take the road to Minas Ithil, jog left just before the bridge, run up the Straight Stair, then the Winding Stair, then take the Tunnel and get past Shelob, you're in.
Speaking of foods, I've often wondered how lembas are for a recovery food, or if the elves have trails to run on in the woodland realms.
i like this
running in Mordor is like running in Los Angeles. horrible air quality.
personally i liked running the rolling hills of Rohan the Best.
i also won the Shire "fun run" 5k. Kicked down a few orcs and and Tom Bombadil for the win.
Done a lot of ultras there, won't be back