Mission: Run Around the World

OK, CC-ers!  Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is ... To help the newly-created CC World Runners Club run around the world!

Check out our new mini-website for more fun information! Please post all your discussions here - there is nowhere to post on that site, but there are links to this and the Learn to Run Thread.

www.worldrunnersclub.com

Every day that you run, whether it's 1 mile on the treadmill or the Boston Marathon, report in via a PM or a post (but not both!!!!).  If you count it as a run, so do we, but try not to include straight walking warmups/cooldowns (jogging counts, though). 

You may send your miles (or kilometers) in daily or weekly.  Updates will be done weekly as of Tuesday 11:59 PM.  Miles will be added up from Wednesday through Tuesday for our weekly totals. 

YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE MILES AT ANY TIME!  Even if you only contribute one mile, once, we'll still welcome it, so don't be shy!  As long as it's run during the week we are working on, it counts.

Not a runner yet, but want to be?  Check out the Learn to Run thread and start now!

Please see Post 1 for more information and the itinerary.

We will start the run at the Southernmost tip of South America, in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.  We will end the run in Capetown, South Africa, at the ocean. 

Start date of the run:  August 1, 2007, 12:00 midnight. 

Let's see how fast we can do this!!!  Please post here if you want to join and contribute your mileage!  We welcome any help we can get!

Our next challenge:  - Getting from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, through Peru and to Ecuador, then to Colombia 

Here is our Actual Progress

Countries we've run: Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador

http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/argentina/tierra- del-fuego/680011635

To track your weekly miles, you can look at (but not post to) this spreadsheet (thanks pixyz): http://www.editgrid.com/user/ccworldrunners/C CWorldRunners)

Current Location:  On to Central America!
Last Update:  January 8, 11:20 PM EST
Total Miles Run: 9,381.13  (39.33%)  **   Miles Remaining: 14,473.00

Runners Up!
T = Total mileage  * LW = Last Week (Wed to Tue) *** TW = This Week

Last Week's Miles (Jan 2-8, 2008): 350.60 # of Runners: 29 * Avg. Miles per Runner:  12.09  * Most Miles for week:  40.20

This Week's Miles (Jan 9-15, 2008):  0.00  # of Runners: 0 * Avg. Miles per Runner:  0.00  * Most Miles for week:  0.00

abaker1961.....T = 87.21 . . . LW = 16.86 . . . TW =
aeetheri............T = 108.35 . . . LW = . . . . . . . TW =
aezell1..............T = 844.00 . . LW = 40.20 . . . TW = 
amycarlson.......T = 182.22 . . LW = . . . . . . . TW = Hiatus
andesite............T = 27.80 . . . LW = 3.50 . . .  TW =
bake7829.........T = 75.00 . . . LW = 8.00 . . . TW = 
bignate0100.....T = 235.59 . . LW = 18.00 . . TW =
bippysmom.......T = 353.10 . . LW = 7.50 . . . TW = 
christinalauren.T = 5.00 . . . . LW = . . . . . TW =
deejlb................T = 13.20 . . LW = . . . . . . TW =
dolceamara......T = 8.00 . . . . LW = . . . . . . TW =
energygirl.........T = 105.65 . . . LW = 8.50. . .TW =
fitdan................T = 19.50 . . . LW = . . . . . TW =
fitnessfreak.....T = 499.45 . . LW = 23.50 . . TW = 
hanno................T = 368.76 . .LW = 16.00 . . TW =
heatherlanders.T = 326.67 . . LW = 9.75 . . TW =
hecticred..........T = 126.75 . . .LW = 6.10 . . . TW =
jenka.................T = 587.90 . . LW = 16.80 . . TW = 
jeremy6201....T = 6.05 . . . . LW = 4.30 . . . TW =
jfk61................T = 14.20 . . . . LW = 14.20 . . TW =
jmarierob..........T = 7.63 . . . . LW = . . . . . .TW =
jocur..................T = 216.00. . LW = . . . . . . TW =  
joyfulake...........T = 331.64. . LW = 2.00 . . TW =
katyayer...........T = 48.50 . . . LW = 2.60 . . TW =
kcthomas..........T = 70.00 . . . LW = 2.00 . . . TW =
kraka................T = 60.45 . . . . LW = . . . . . . TW =
mikelane..........T = 5.50 . . . . . LW = . . . . . TW =
missyrayn........T = 184.10 . . LW = . . . . . . . TW =
mjaned............T = 8.00 . . . . . LW = . . . . . . . TW = 
nilla529............T = 82.10 . . . LW = 3.00 . . TW = 
pandajenn19...T = 226.60 . . . LW = 32.00 . . . TW =
phord................T = 46.80 . . .. LW = 10.50 . . . TW =  
pixyz.................T = 166.85 . . LW = 3.75 .  . . . TW =
pokeylvr...........T = 1.00 . . . . .LW = . . . . . . . TW =
primadonna98..T = 7.00 . . . . . LW = 7.00 . . . TW =
psychrat...........T = 3.50 . . . . LW = . . . . . . . TW =
red_rebel.........T = 51.00 . . . LW = . . . . . . TW =
remkewill..........T = 120.60 . .  LW = 28.00 . TW =
runner_girl.......T = 15.00 . . . LW = 15.00 . . TW =
sarah_11235.....T = 45.01 .  LW = . . . . . . . TW =
shanfood.............T = 21.25 .  LW = . . . . . . TW = HIATUS
skinny_kitty.......T = 151.33 . .LW = 13.75. . TW =  
soy_vey..............T = 35.05 . . . LW = . . . . . . TW =
spacedreamer01.T = 165.26 . LW = . . . . . . . TW =  
sugar_baby........T = 200.00 . . LW = 13.11 . . TW =
tabathar..............T = 191.20 . . LW = . . . . . TW = 
tatjanaturtle.......T = 75.73 . . . LW = 17.18 . . TW =
trinzaka..............T = 162.41 . . LW = . . .  . . .TW = 
yoyonomo..........T= 395.50 . . LW =  . . . . . . TW =
wiliwigi................T = 15.35 . . LW = 5.50 . . TW =
wrm2105...........T = 486.80 . . LW = 2.00 . . TW = 6.00
zarelha...............T = 377.05 . . LW = . . . . . TW = 

PAST CONTRIBUTORS (To reactivate, Post or PM me!)

alicat0421........T = 26.20
anyoung1984...T = 10.30
belle..................T = 58.25
dhwebb.............T = 86.90
ema519............T = 56.00 
felizia...............T = 138.00
ferrarigpnyc.....T = 27.51
inci_vinci..........T = 22.75  
jason2734........T = 1.50  
jonmin...............T = 180.70
kazrinya...........T = 14.96 
leafsfan17........T = 31.95  
lilyquistj...........T = 1.00
lottery..............T = 3.10
lysee80............T = 48.00
marneedear.....T = 130.54
maxien78.........T = 3.20 
maximus0220..T = 12.00
mich0304........T = 4.00
msangelh.........T = 52.14
nightc1.............T = 5.70
rae4me............T = 6.40 
rednikon.............T = 11.40
robyneg..............T = 34.10
shavenyak..........T = 26.20
shoopy29............T = 40.70
steelsdaughter....T = 20.75  
steelslady...........T = 17.75
terri135..............T = 24.50
terribles13.........T = 41.60
thellama.............T = 129.80
therawk1981.....T = 19.20 
vrykol.................T = 120.42
yupitslauren.......T = 5.00

I have to post the obligatory mod stuff - technically, steelslady's daughter (the one who is 11) cannot create an account, because the minimum age is 13.  FYI.

Oops!  How right you are!  Then we can call her steelsdaughter on our roster!

zarelha : i hv a few words to say. All up to you how to go about it.

The exercise/weightloss challenges started in the games forum every month have a dummy accout set (exercise-challenge or similar) and 3-4 volunteers take care of adding times of the participants in the post roster. I was thinking may be u can set up a new id and with a moderator's help (eyes set on pandajenn19 :) ) move this whole post to a new id. Then invite monthly volunteers to add miles/new runners every week, give them access and they can even add a note on the course n the country/city we r virtually running thru. We can also add a small intro of volunteers (this i stole outright from dbackerfan's idea) everytime a new group takes over.

The reason being, it's going to be at least a year, and you doing everything by urself, i thought may be others can chip in too.

Another point: If we are ok to get friends to contribute, asking them to open an account on c-c might not be so welcome by them. We shud be just able to list their names (with their consent) and add miles.

Alright i m done. Again it's entirely for you to decide. I am fine with even the current setting on this post (as long as i can run and add miles to the group).

That's awesome- thanks! I will list my youngest daughter as Steelsdaughter. I am sure my oldest daughter will make an account here and add her own miles, once she gets home.

Thanks again, getting psyched for our mission around the world!

pandajenn, you won't have me picking on you, I'll only be doing about 10 miles/week to start. I'll be increasing a little at a time, though, to get ready for the virtual 10k in September, of course.

Although I don't do a huge # of miles each week I would like to contribute my miles to the run around the world! 

I plan to start my run today, I may not be great at first...but I hope to contribute some miles to the goal!!! Count me in!

please count me in!

Everyone getting their running shoes ready?  I think we're going to blow by our first post before we know it! After this week, I'll know what kinds of goals to set.

inci_vinci - Good idea about the volunteers.  Let me figure out how this all works and very soon, I'm sure, I'll be begging for some help!  I'll ask pandajenn19 what is possible.

As far as contributing miles, I'd like to keep this particular run to the C-C world (hence the logo).  So, anyone is welcome to become a member of C-C (it is free, after all) and contribute miles, but unless they are registered, can post and can be reached via PM, it will make it tough to keep track.  One notable exception - those with active children too young to create an account for themselves.  Their parents - who must be members of C-C - can then contribute their miles.

I may expand this idea to others ... keep an eye out for the website ...

Let's get ready!  Everyone taking a rest day today? :)

I'm in zarelha!

Woot!  I think I'm first!  :)  3 miles this morning.  Now I have to go to work...

Edit 7:25am - at second job now, and I have two things to add.

First, I don't intend to clog up the thread with posting every single run.  :D  I just was excited to post what were hopefully the first miles run for the challenge (unless anyone else was out at 4:15am central time).

Second, do you want the running miles, or do you want me to be including warm up and cool down?  Because I ran 3, but total distance was about 3.15.  I generally never count the walking sections myself, but I'm happy to keep track of them for the purposes of this challenge, if that is what everyone else is doing.

Hi there, are we supposed to post what we run every day or is a weekly post?  I ran 2.8 today...

~S

3.1 this morning!

Congrats to Pandajenn for the first post (and more than likely the first run - 4:15 AM!)

You can post whatever you feel is part of your "run".  People measure differently, and I don't want to nitpick.  Especially those on treadmills and with pedometers, it's hard to know which parts were "warmup" and which were "run".  As long as you're counting it, we're counting it. 

And to all you morning runners!  Woohoo!  I'm doing mine this afternoon.

You can post or PM your miles whenever you are comfortable - just please don't duplicate them!!!  Miles will be added up from Wednesday to Tuesday for our weekly totals (since we started on the 1st).

We could help you by posting summary totals through the week.  And list the post numbers included.  It might make the weekly total work a little easier on you.  You could assign that task to a few people if you want.  I wouldn't mind helping out.

I would also recommend just posting mileage every few days, not every run trying to get them all posted by Tuesday.

For example:
Miles from posts #51 -#55: 9.05 Miles
Total miles ran: 9.05 Miles

What would be really nice if we setup a little website where everybody could log their miles on there in a database that would automatically sum the totals for us. 

I never look at post #s, though.  I think the easiest and neatest method would be for everyone to post (or PM) their weekly totals on a certain day of the week and then Zarelha (or her designate) will update once per week.  Most likely a couple days later to give her time to get to it. 

I would like to post my weekly mileage every Monday morning.  Then Zarelha would have until the next Sunday to update the OP.  How do others feel about that system?

good morning, o.k. this mornong 4.5 miles yeah!! have a great day everyone. how everyone decides to do our posts is fine by me just let us all know

I don't know why I thought this, but for some reason I thought that every runner would be able to choose their own little part of the route.  Like I just did on http://maps.google.com/ig/add?synd=mpl&pi d=mpl&moduleurl=http:%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fmapfiles%2Fmapplets%2Fdistan ce%2Fdistance.xml&hl=en&gl=us&ll= -54.678446,-65.341 53&spn=0.332684,0.925598&t=k&z=10 &om=1&msa=0&msid=1151019642323623 57072.000436a81780809870dd6

I just kept adding segments that equalled each submitted run (and I used 3 miles for the 1st run since that's the first number she posted)

It probably doesn't matter and it might be too hard for everyone to add their own segments.  If we used google maps like I did, we'd need to create a new link each time and post the new link here so the next person could make a segment.  But if people didn't want to bother doing that, they could post their mileage somewhere and someone else could decide what their segment is.

Anyhow, I just thought I'd share what my (apparently misguided) idea of this was.  Anyone have any thoughts?  I like choosing my path for my miles, but I don't want to cause too much work for anyone.

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Edit: Ok, I just tried my own link and it's not working.  I think Google needs to fix their beta sites.  A Big ole NEVERMIND!!!!

3.25 miles - no jogging / cooldown included.

I too feel it's a good idea to post weekly mileage except this first time. I am sure it would be exciting to get some miles against our names on the roster. Then we can go by conventional weekend - say Friday/Sat so whoever updates the totals will have a breather of Sunday. If you are running on Sun as well then post your weekly mileage on Sunday else it can be your last running day of week. To avoid confusion u can even post something like

e.g. Total - 10 miles. From 08/01 - 08/04

The person(s)-in-charge will also have to traverse the grand total no. of miles along the planned route and announce where we stand at the end of the week n what's the next destination.

Let's see how we go this first week and then decide how to proceed.

We have 34 runners (and still counting) listed on the rooster, that's GREAT !!

3.4 miles including warmup/cooldown walk.

I agree with inci, I will start posting my weekly totals but had to post my first run's mileage.  I think on the first day we already have 19.9 miles logged.  Hopefully we can average around 90 miles a day so it will only take us a year to complete this challenge.