Team Heart and Sole - The Journey Continues

Written by Carl

If anyone was wondering how the team of virtual Hobbits from the Scottish Health Councilwere getting on, Chris Third sent us this ripping yarn.

“We thought that you might be interested in our updated map on our walk from the Shire toMordor.

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Team Heart and Sole - The Journey Continues

Written by Carl

“Alas when we reached the mines of Moria we didn’t get the warm welcome we had beenexpecting! The Dwarves had been slaughtered and Goblins now lurked in the eerie shadows!Still we made good progress through the mines until Chris knocked a bucket and some armourdown a well (oops!) and created such a din that it brought a massive Goblin army down uponus! We had to fight off the horde of Goblins and then a massive Troll turned up and startedcausing all sorts of chaos! Luckily Karen managed to shoot the Troll in the neck dazing thebeast and working together we eventually brought it down. Then we made a break for it with theGoblin horde close behind! We were surrounded but suddenly the Goblins scampered off!

“Our relief was short lived though when a gigantic Balrog appeared out of the shadows! Onceagain we were on the run! After jumping across some collapsing staircases we eventuallyreached the exit with the Balrog closing in. As we ran across a narrow bridge Gandalf (a wizardwho was travelling with us) turned to face the Balrog and managed to deflect a deadly blow.However, the blow and the weight of the Balrog caused the bridge to collapse sending Gandalfand the Balrog into the abyss! Gandalf’s last words were “Fly you fools!” and indeed we did,straight out the exit as the Goblins returned to fire arrows at us.

“Next we made our way through the forest of Lorien where we met more Elves. These Elveswere disappointed to hear about Gandalf but they helped get us ready to continue our journey.Camille had a chat with the Elf Queen who showed her a terrible vision of the potential futureshould we fail our quest! Anne and Lisa partied the night away with some Elven brew (not to bemistaken for Irn Bru) and after a good nights sleep we continued our quest along the river.

“So basically, as you’ll see, we are still doing well, keeping our step count over 300,000 meansthat we are making excellent progress and I think we may need another detour, possibly we’llbe forced into one if things don’t go as planned again!

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Team Heart and Sole - The Journey Continues

Written by Carl

“Have a good week’s walking!”

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