And it’s taken me a while to go forward with it. It was based off of the Eowyn Challenge, but I made a few changes. Mainly because I hate walking. So, I’ve switched out the bike. And frankly, I’m tired of fantasy. But how does one cross interstellar distances on a bike? So that’s out. So….
I present you with the Mars siteseeing challenge. I’m positive the numbers aren’t 100% accurate, but I’m fine with that. The way points are as follows:
| Start | End | Distance |
| Hellas Planitia – West | Hellas Planitia – East | 2300 km |
| Hellas Planitia – East | Proctor Crater | 1214 km |
| Proctor Crater | Kaiser Crater | 671 km |
| Kaiser Crater | Roddenberry Crater | 1501 km |
| Roddenberry Crater | Galle Crater | 1597 km |
| Galle Crater | Hale Crater | 1501 km |
| Hale Crater | Eos Chasma | 1693 km |
| Eos Chasma | Coprates Chasma | 894 km |
| Coprates Chasma | Noctis Labrynthis | 2492 km |
| Noctis Labrynthis | Arsia Mons | 1949 km |
| Arsia Pons | Pavonis Mons | 799 km |
| Pavonis Mons | Ascraseus Mons | 862 km |
| Ascraseus Mons | Olympus Mons | 1853 km |
For a grand total of 19326 km. Given a distance traveled of approximately 27 km a day (1 hour on the exercise bike) it will take just over 700 DAYS to reach my final destination. My goal is to reach the Roddenberry Crater by the end of the year (That’s one Daily Quest done Shrink Geek!). I’ll be updating this on Friday to show my current progress.
And for those curious.
I ended the year at 247 with a 44″ waist. My exercising really fell off towards the end of the year.
I don’t remember what your stats were before… but improvement is improvement. For reference I’ve done ~1876 km on my bike in approx 16 months since getting it. Mostly small trips around town. Keep in mind you will NOT do 27 km every day, just because of life and traveling. I suggest creating a schedule for the first point before getting started. Figure out how many miles you’ll have to do each day given 1-2 days off per week (just to reduce muscle fatigue). You might also want some beverage for energy too. The idea is not to deprive your body of energy while doing this, but to increase metabolism.
I know there’s no way in hell I’m going to do 27 km every day. But the distance from the start point to Roddenberry crater is 5686 km. So if I do 27 km a session, it’s going to take 211 session, or about 4 days a week to reach the destination.
That is… *really* *damn* *cool*.
I hope you don’t mind if we mention this in a future column. :-)
Nope! Go right ahead!