Imaginary Biking

 

What Is Imaginary Biking?

Some years ago, I stumbled upon Walk to Rivendell, a site that enables you to track your walking/biking/swimming/jazzercise progress against the journey of the hobbits in Lord of the Rings. So I did that for a while, off and on, because when it comes to exercise I'm an off and on sort of person. Eventually I hit a boring patch, and decided to use Google Map Pedometer to track my progress against real-world roads and distances. In my case, I'm going from the northern tip of Japan's main island to the southern end. Or, as I said in one of my livejournal entries, "Imaginary Biking is where you do real biking, but you pretend you're actually getting somewhere."

 

Please visit my livejournal entries for more detail about the attractions and charms of the cities I pass through in my imagination. Maybe if I get to the southern tip of Honshu, I'll actually go to Japan and visit some of these places!

 

November 19, 2007

Total miles: 203.0

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1459965

 

November 11, 2007

Total miles: 191.5

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1444720

 

November 10, 2007

Total miles: 189

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1444073

 

November 7, 2007

Total miles: 184.5

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1437487

 

November 5, 2007

Total miles: 179.0

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1433066

 

November 3, 2007

Total miles: 174.0

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1429835

 

November 2, 2007

Total miles: 166.5

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1427328

 

October 29, 2007

Total miles: 160

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1419469

 

October 27, 2007

Total miles: 154

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1416685

 

October 17, 2007

Total miles: 150

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1395824

 

October 15, 2007

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1390821

 

October 14, 2007

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1389944

 

October 13, 2007

Total miles: 139.5

(Note: rebooted my route record because a 127-mile route takes up a whole lot of processing power, apparently.)

Route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1387758

 

October 12, 2007

Total miles: 129.5 (117.5 in pedometer)

Route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1385762

 

October 10, 2007

Total miles: 122 (110 in pedometer)

Route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1380501

 

October 8, 2007

Total miles: 115.5 (103.5 in pedometer)

Route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1375281