7vs7: The 100 Mile Challenge
If you've noticed a common theme carrying out across the diverse local blogosphere this week (here, here, here, here, here, and here), we applaud you for being so cognizant. And if you haven't noticed, don't worry, we don't expect you to have a Google Reader full of local blogs like we do. But let us clue you in on what's going on.
You may recall last July we took part in a competition called 7vs7: Spokane, where 8 (we bent the rules a bit) local bloggers attempted to go 7 days eating only 7 ingredients of our choosing, with it all playing out on our respective blogs. Then we did it again in January where we tried to go 7 days without eating processed food. Which leads us to the present, where we will once again prove that we are suckers for self-punishment.
This time the competition is open to anyone willing to participate and of course blog about it, and at "press time" we have 15 competitors willing to step up to the challenge. The object of the "100 mile Challenge" is to take 5 days (August 31 – September 4, 2009) to eat food grown or raised within a 100 mile radius of Spokane.
While DTE has shown fair in the two previous challenges, we feel this one is in our wheelhouse, and prime for the taking. As you'd expect, we'll keep you up to date on the competition, as well as what we're leaning along the way. Part of what makes these competitions so rewarding for us is the chance to bring attention to the local blogosphere and show how robust and diverse it is. But what will ultimately prove to be most gratifying with this particular competition is the opportunity to bring attention to the challenges and rewards of eating locally.
Read after the jump for a list of the competitors thus far. "Let the great experiment begin!"
1. Becky from I Put the Me in Awesome
2. Mark from Route 140 and Rhymes with Almonds
3. Unknown Neva from SFB and Finally a Blog
4. Moneeeeq from Home Economics 2.0
5. Andrew from Editor, Revised and Burger, Revised
6. Hank from Shallow Cogitations
7. BrightSpirit from Fresh Abundance
8. Paul from DTE
9. Remi from SFB and RemiAndre
10. Bart from DTE
11. Crystal from SpoVegan
12. Stephanie from Peanut butter and Stephanie
13. AngieD from Sustainable September Spokane
14. John Speare from Cycling Spokane
15. Rachel from One Facet of the Human Experience
