The WWII Challenge

The National WWII Museum has just announced the 2022 WWII Challenge! Running from August 1 to December 1, the challenge is a virtual race, meaning you track your miles (walk, run, bike, swim, etc!) and submit them online. I participated last year in the short Liberty Road route, but this year I wanted to have a team working on the full 712 mile Liberty Road Challenge (the miles are cumulative for the team—you don’t have to do it all yourself).

Per the Challenge website: “Operation Liberty Road follows in the footsteps of Allied troops who liberated France and Belgium in 1944 along the Liberty Road (French La Voie de la Liberté), a 1,147 kilometer march beginning on Utah Beach in Normandy on June 6, across Northern France to Metz, and then northwards to Bastogne, Belgium, which was liberated on September 10, 1944, and held strong during the Battle of the Bulge.”

This path also overlaps much of the same route taken by the Twelfth Army Group Headquarters, and the Challenge starts the same day HQ became operational! The WAC Detachment of the Twelfth Army Group was considered the most forward WAC unit in the ETO, and has become a popular choice for reenactors.

If interested, you can join the Lipstick & War team at the following link: https://runsignup.com/Race/LA/NewOrleans/WWII?raceRefCode=Hp4RoTi4

I hope you’ll join me!