Circumpolar Race Around the World (CRAW)



Region 12 (Lower 48) Summary
The CRAW Region 12 route consisted of one country... the continental United States where we visited six states: Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas. The region had a total length of 2,057 miles. We achieved 49.9 miles per day for Region 12:

RegionDistanceDays to FinishTeam Average
Miles Per Day
12,512 mi45.5 days55.2 mi/day
23,094 mi61.6 days50.3 mi/day
33,173 mi64.6 days49.1 mi/day
43,296 mi54.4 days60.5 mi/day
52,638 mi45.4 days58.1 mi/day
62,088 mi42.0 days45.9 mi/day
71,989 mi37.9 days52.4 mi/day
81,661 mi27.9 days59.6 mi/day
92,319 mi38.3 days60.6 mi/day
102,969 mi46.0 days58.6 mi/day
112,685 mi52.2 days51.5 mi/day
122,057 mi41.2 days49.9 mi/day

For the total of regions 1-12 (entire CRAW), we have completed 30,208 miles over 557 days for a team average of 54.2 miles per day.

For Region 12, our team's breakout of running vs. walking was:
Running (including treadmill)1,322 miles (64%)
Walking (including hiking)738 miles (36%)
Total2,060 miles (3 miles more than we needed)

And now, for Region 12 top honors...

Top 3 Mileage (Running & Walking)

  1. @camaker - 368.3 miles (average of 8.9 miles per day)
  2. @Baloo in MI - 304.2 miles (average of 7.4 miles per day)
  3. @RunDopey - 279.5 miles (average of 6.8 miles per day)
    @Dopey 2020 was a close 4th at 274.0 miles
Top 3 Running Mileage
  1. @camaker - 240.0 miles
  2. @RunDopey - 231.4 miles
  3. @Baloo in MI - 169.2 miles
Top 3 Walking Mileage
  1. @kbenson13 - 154.4 miles
  2. @Baloo in MI - 135.0 miles
  3. @Dopey 2020 - 133.0 miles
Awesome job, team!! We are done... I guess we can stop running and walking now.

There will be a separate post for the aggregate total stats for the entire CRAW coming soon...
 


The Final Stats for CRAW "It's a Small World"

Our total CRAW adventure of 30,208 miles took 1 year 6 months and 11 days (or 557 days). That means we averaged 54.2 miles per day as a team, or 5.4 miles per person per day for over a year and a half. Pretty impressive! Over that time we had a total of 13 different team members participate, with 7 on the team going the entire distance. Here are the final mileage totals for each participant (ordered by highest to lowest total mileage):

Overall CRAW Mileage

Team Member
# of Regions
Total Mileage
@camaker
12 (entire CRAW)​
4,518 miles (8.1 mi/day)​
@Dopey 2020
12 (entire CRAW)​
4,385 miles (7.9 mi/day)​
@Baloo in MI
12 (entire CRAW)​
4,344 miles (7.8 mi/day)​
@RunDopey
12 (entire CRAW)​
4,291 miles (7.7 mi/day)​
@opusone
12 (entire CRAW)​
3,012 miles​
@avondale
12 (entire CRAW)​
2,951 miles​
@kbenson13
12 (entire CRAW)​
2,212 miles​
@jmasgat
7 (Regions 6-12)​
1,071 miles​
@GuinnessRunner
5 (Regions 1-5)​
931 miles​
@vkeating
7 (Regions 6-12)​
926 miles​
@Krandor
5 (Regions 1-5)​
770 miles​
@opusone's wife
5 (Regions 8-12)​
411 miles​
@bovie
5 (Regions 1-5)​
397 miles​
Total
30,219 miles
(11 miles more than needed)

As seen above, four of our teammates each clocked over 4,000 miles during CRAW, and those four accounted for 58% of our team's total mileage!

For the breakout of running and walking miles, here are the top honors:

Top 3 Running Mileage (including treadmill)

  1. @RunDopey - 3,882 miles
  2. @camaker - 3,084 miles
  3. @opusone - 2,780 miles
Top 3 Walking Mileage (including hiking)
  1. @Dopey 2020 - 2,281 miles
  2. @Baloo in MI - 2,235 miles
  3. @camaker - 1,434 miles
Just for fun, I did look at the treadmill and hiking separately, and although not a significant factor, here are the results (assuming everyone input the data correctly):

Top 3 Treadmill Mileage

  1. @opusone - 171 miles
  2. @GuinnessRunner - 123 miles
  3. @RunDopey - 33 miles
Top 3 Hiking Mileage
  1. @Dopey 2020 - 46 miles
  2. @jmasgat - 13 miles
  3. @Krandor - 10 miles
Finally, I looked at the individual activities everyone entered. I focused on the total number of activities as well as the individual activities with the highest and lowest mileage...

Top 3 Total Number of Activities

  1. @avondale - 1,027 individual activities (1.8 activities per day)
  2. @Dopey 2020 - 862 individual activities (1.5 activities per day)
  3. @camaker - 778 individual activities (1.4 activities per day)
    BTW, all 7 folks who stayed for the entire CRAW averaged more than one activity per day!
Top 3 Highest Individual Activity Mileage
  1. @RunDopey - 100 miles (while achieving a 2+ hour PR at Rocky Raccoon 100)
  2. @camaker - 62.95 miles (1st 100k at Blackbeard's Revenge 100)
  3. @Baloo in MI - 27.13 miles (for being the most inefficient teammate during the WDW Marathon this year - what tangents?)
Top 3 Lowest Individual Activity Mileage (tongue-in-cheek as these may have actually been add-on mileage from other workouts, but none-the-less, they were entered separately)
  1. @kbenson13 - 0.10 miles (walk on 8/17/21)
  2. @avondale - 0.21 miles (run on 6/28/21)
  3. @RunDopey - 0.27 miles (walk on 11/2/21)
Besides all the successes listed above, there were a lot of other successes our teammates had during the last year and a half, and I wish we could list them all here. Congrats, everyone!

Well, that about wraps it up. In any case, I originally registered for this adventure hoping to keep folks motivated during the pandemic, and I can't speak for the team, but it definitely helped me. I want to thank all those who participated for staying involved, inspiring each other, and giving words of encouragement when needed. I really enjoyed our journey. Thank you, team!!!!!
 
Thank you @opusone for your leadership through this adventure, for kick-starting a team 17 months ago and for the really cool region by region summaries! I have really enjoyed being part of the team and will miss seeing our team advance around the world.

We should try to connect through one of the meet-ups at MW in January. I think there were several of us going? At least so we can get a picture or two. I would love to put one next to the world map e we all got. Now it is back to logging my miles in my journal.
 
Congratulations to all! A lot of miles put in over the months. And I also add a very special thank you to Opusone for all the work and updates. It was great to follow along with the updates even after I droped from the team. Hope everyone has found a big enough spot for your now completed world maps!
 
I'm not a big virtual race person, but two things I enjoyed with this were the live views of where we were running (the only way me/Afghanistan will ever meet) and also, weirdly, the impetus to track/record my walking mileage, or to be more accurate, my dog-walking mileage. My Buddy is 15-1/2, and we may not go far, but we go every day. It adds up to more moving than I would have thought.
 
The Final Stats for CRAW "It's a Small World"

Our total CRAW adventure of 30,208 miles took 1 year 6 months and 11 days (or 557 days). That means we averaged 54.2 miles per day as a team, or 5.4 miles per person per day for over a year and a half. Pretty impressive! Over that time we had a total of 13 different team members participate, with 7 on the team going the entire distance. Here are the final mileage totals for each participant (ordered by highest to lowest total mileage):

Overall CRAW Mileage

Team Member
# of Regions
Total Mileage
@camaker
12 (entire CRAW)​
4,518 miles (8.1 mi/day)​
@Dopey 2020
12 (entire CRAW)​
4,385 miles (7.9 mi/day)​
@Baloo in MI
12 (entire CRAW)​
4,344 miles (7.8 mi/day)​
@RunDopey
12 (entire CRAW)​
4,291 miles (7.7 mi/day)​
@opusone
12 (entire CRAW)​
3,012 miles​
@avondale
12 (entire CRAW)​
2,951 miles​
@kbenson13
12 (entire CRAW)​
2,212 miles​
@jmasgat
7 (Regions 6-12)​
1,071 miles​
@GuinnessRunner
5 (Regions 1-5)​
931 miles​
@vkeating
7 (Regions 6-12)​
926 miles​
@Krandor
5 (Regions 1-5)​
770 miles​
@opusone's wife
5 (Regions 8-12)​
411 miles​
@bovie
5 (Regions 1-5)​
397 miles​
Total
30,219 miles
(11 miles more than needed)

As seen above, four of our teammates each clocked over 4,000 miles during CRAW, and those four accounted for 58% of our team's total mileage!

Geez, @opusone, if I'd realized I was only 60 miles behind you for the grand total, I would have worked a little harder! :rotfl2:

For the breakout of running and walking miles, here are the top honors:

Top 3 Running Mileage (including treadmill)

  1. @RunDopey - 3,882 miles
  2. @camaker - 3,084 miles
  3. @opusone - 2,780 miles
Top 3 Walking Mileage (including hiking)
  1. @Dopey 2020 - 2,281 miles
  2. @Baloo in MI - 2,235 miles
  3. @camaker - 1,434 miles

The mileage that these folks consistently put on was really amazing! For a year and a half!

Just for fun, I did look at the treadmill and hiking separately, and although not a significant factor, here are the results (assuming everyone input the data correctly):

Top 3 Treadmill Mileage

  1. @opusone - 171 miles
  2. @GuinnessRunner - 123 miles
  3. @RunDopey - 33 miles
Top 3 Hiking Mileage
  1. @Dopey 2020 - 46 miles
  2. @jmasgat - 13 miles
  3. @Krandor - 10 miles
Finally, I looked at the individual activities everyone entered. I focused on the total number of activities as well as the individual activities with the highest and lowest mileage...

Top 3 Total Number of Activities

  1. @avondale - 1,027 individual activities (1.8 activities per day)
  2. @Dopey 2020 - 862 individual activities (1.5 activities per day)
  3. @camaker - 778 individual activities (1.4 activities per day)
    BTW, all 7 folks who stayed for the entire CRAW averaged more than one activity per day!
Top 3 Highest Individual Activity Mileage
  1. @RunDopey - 100 miles (while achieving a 2+ hour PR at Rocky Raccoon 100)
  2. @camaker - 62.95 miles (1st 100k at Blackbeard's Revenge 100)
  3. @Baloo in MI - 27.13 miles (for being the most inefficient teammate during the WDW Marathon this year - what tangents?)
Top 3 Lowest Individual Activity Mileage (tongue-in-cheek as these may have actually been add-on mileage from other workouts, but none-the-less, they were entered separately)
  1. @kbenson13 - 0.10 miles (walk on 8/17/21)
  2. @avondale - 0.21 miles (run on 6/28/21)
  3. @RunDopey - 0.27 miles (walk on 11/2/21)

I was trying to think why I would have done 0.21 running miles, so I looked it up. This was me getting to 100 running miles for the month of June! Gotta have priorities!

Besides all the successes listed above, there were a lot of other successes our teammates had during the last year and a half, and I wish we could list them all here. Congrats, everyone!

Well, that about wraps it up. In any case, I originally registered for this adventure hoping to keep folks motivated during the pandemic, and I can't speak for the team, but it definitely helped me. I want to thank all those who participated for staying involved, inspiring each other, and giving words of encouragement when needed. I really enjoyed our journey. Thank you, team!!!!!

Thanks so much for keeping track of all of this and keeping us in line. It was a lot of fun!
 
Geez, @opusone, if I'd realized I was only 60 miles behind you for the grand total, I would have worked a little harder! :rotfl2:
This doesn't surprise me, as you and I were neck & neck for many of the regions. I thought you likely had me given my lackluster performance in Region 12. I was just surprised that I crossed the 3,000 mile mark as I wasn't paying close attention to my total mileage at the end!
 
@opusone thank you for organizing the team and keeping tabs on the stats! That was a huge motivator that got me to start some good running habits, hopefully I can maintain them. Congratulations to the team. It was great to meet some of you at MW, hopefully we’ll see each other again.

I sincerely echo this. I'm very grateful. I couldn't have done that job, and our team may never have completed this journey without all the effort you put in to keeping us on track.

Also, I just got my shipping notice for my Region 11 and 12 medals!
 
My medals for region 11 & 12 arrived! It felt really good to place those last two on the map and close our year and a half loop! I think it looks really nice now. But I am starting to think about the other regions…. Anyone doing them? If so can you share the process. Is it solo? I think I just might try to fill in the rest of that map!A07BEEDD-643B-4EE9-B571-986B54ABB7A2.jpeg
 
But I am starting to think about the other regions…. Anyone doing them? If so can you share the process. Is it solo? I think I just might try to fill in the rest of that map!
I think the bonus regions work identical to the main regions... teams up to 10 people, post mileage just like before, etc. So, sure you could run them solo, but that will take a lot of time to get all those miles in.

ETA: upon closer inspection of the map, I don't believe there are magnets under the bonus region continents/countries, so you would need to attach them to the map in a different way.
 
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