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A high quality 10k walk on the Virgin River and Middleton Wash trails this morning, as illustrated in the Google Earth clip above.  If you prefer traditional distances, it was 6.26 miles in 2:04:46 hours.  152 feet were climbed along the way.  Exhilarating!

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Walk today (November 14): 6.34 miles with 210 feet climbed in 1:54:47, a 18:07 minute per mile pace. HumanaFit averaged out the grade at 2.0% on 1.99 miles of the walk and rated it category 5. Tortoise Rating:  5.2.  I listened to the Sunday morning session of October 2012 General Conference on this walk, with President Monson just wrapping up his concluding remarks as I arrived home.

Eating: 1,542 calories today; 14,996 calories in the past 7 days. Please click on the line below to see a map and more:

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Walked after work today, again bundled up pretty well. I listened to the Priesthood Session of conference that we attended a few weeks ago, the first 4 1/2 talks through about half of President Eyring.  I had my phone in my pocket with a cord up to earphones, under earmuffs, under a hat that covered my ears.  Total awes!

I will let my map mostly describe my route, except to say that I walked like I was headed home from work, then at the last street before the bridge, turned and headed up the hill to return to work that way.

Stats: 4.86 miles with 236 feet climbed in 1:24:44, which is a 17:26 minute per mile pace. Course included a HumanaFit category 5 climb of 0.71 miles at 2.5% average grade. Tortoise Rating:  4.8. Eating today totalled 1,814 calories; the most recent 7 days totalled 15,874 calories. Please click on the line below to see the map:

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Finished work just before 6 today (November 8), had a meeting at Valley Academy at 7, so I walked to the meeting, then went as far as I could past there by 6:30, turned around returned to the meeting, paused the GPS app, resumed it at 9 when the meeting ended, and walked back to the office so I could drive home. It rained off and on before the meeting, then cleared up which made it cold and windy after the meeting. My trusted hoody helped me through all this ...

Stats; 4.27 miles walked in 1:17:11, an 18:05 minute per mile pace. There was 213 feet total elevation gain, including a 0.84 mile stretch at 2.7% average grade rated 4.8 tortoises. Eating: 2,508 calories; 15,650 in the most recent 7 days.

Please click on the line below for a map and more:

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I started this afternoon's walk  (November 7) by going to a meeting at Valley Academy by foot. When that ended, I went back to the office in time to drive home for our 12 step meeting, but not before taking a category 4 detour up East Cinder Knoll: 2.55 miles with 361 feet climbed in 56:38, which is a 22:14 minute per mile pace. Average grade while climbing: 5.5% (but the second part was much steeper than the first).  Overall tortoise rating: 3.4.

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Entertainment brought to you today (November 3) from the memory of Doug Jr ...



please click on the line below for information (one minute video, map) on the LaVerkin Scenic Loop Trail, which I did in full for the first time today.  Plus other tidbits for your reading pleasure: