Bronze Men 🗿

begins Monday 12 October https://www.mypacer.com/challenges/bf28i5ee/the-martinmas-drive?invitor=44glpj86 The year is closing its fist. The high pastures are empty, the nights come early, and the old road fills with everything that must reach market before winter locks the gates. This time there are eight of us. Eight Bronze Men on the drovers' road — through All Hallows, through the first frost, to the Martinmas gate on 11 November. Ten thousand steps a day, every day. 2.5 million together. A herd is only as fast as its slowest beast. So nobody walks alone, and nobody gets left in the dark. Lanterns out before dawn count extra. All Hallows Eve, everyone reports from the road. Stray two days and the herd will know. The gate opens on the 11th. Be standing at it.

begins 1 September Michaelmas falls on the 29th. In the old year that was the day rents came due, harvests were counted, and every account was settled before winter. The reeve keeps his count on a notched stick. Ours is simpler: 10,000 steps a day, thirty days, 300,000 by month's end. Nothing carries over. Nothing is forgiven. A day missed is a day owed. The fields are coming in. Walk them. Bronze Men 🗿 — 1 to 30 September

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