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Ignore your fitness tracker and walk to Mordor instead


Walking 10,000 steps is tedious. Outwalking Frodo is motivating.

On Christmas, I was cleaning out my old apartment by myself, eating day-old gas-station chicken fingers and berating myself for being too tired to do my long run. Everyone else was in a food coma, and the person recording was poking fun at a friend on the couch obsessing over some fitness app. Instead of griping how tired I am, I’ll get off a stop earlier on the bus so I can shorten the pathetic 337-mile lead Mr. Underhill currently resting in Riverdale has over me.

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