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2025 AT Distance Challenge

January 10, 2025

By marcusvaldes on Saturday, January 11, 2025

Still nursing the ankle, but I managed to get a mile in yesterday. It’s feeling a lot better and I’m hoping not a multiweek injury. Brian L., my coworker that lives in Jacksonville now has a total of 33.45 miles so easily second in our “pack”.

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2025 AT Distance Challenge

January 6, 2025

By marcusvaldes on Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Spent most of the day with my foot elevated to try and minimize the damage from the sprain yesterday. I’m headed to the foot doctor tomorrow just to make sure I didn’t do something really bad to it. It’s not the worst sprain I’ve ever had, but bad enough that I’m hobbling around.

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2025 AT Distance Challenge

January 5, 2025

By marcusvaldes on Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Added 2 more miles today for a total of 8.02 miles. This was a hike up the Stone Mountain Walk Up Trail. I’ve done this hike about 3 times over the past few weeks, but kept having to go back down before the top because my blood sugar was dropping kind of fast. Yesterday things …

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2025 AT Distance Challenge

January 4, 2025

By marcusvaldes on Sunday, January 5, 2025

Only .84 miles added yesterday although I did get in 10,000 steps for the day. Most of those were spent in a friend’s garage yesterday, changing the oil in my car and a small hike in Serenbe. I’m up to 6.02 miles. No new distance reported from anyone else yet.

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2025 AT Distance Challenge

January 2

By marcusvaldes on Friday, January 3, 2025

Identical day to yesterday with 2.59 miles. That gives me 5.18 miles “up the trail” and close to the Hawk Mountain shelter. A friend of mine from work, Brian L. is participating. He’s 6.47 miles in. I’m still trying to figure out how to calculate where we are at on the trail. I found this …

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2025 AT Distance Challenge

January 1

By marcusvaldes on Thursday, January 2, 2025

I created a Challenge “Rules” page and texted some friends to see who wants to participate. I’ll be introducing them here in the coming days. Yesterday I was off to a very minimal start, but I got 11,000+ steps in for the day overall. My current distance is 2.18 miles. So I’m 0.0992081551% of the …

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