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Mile 937.  Tortoise walked 3.12 miles tonight on a loop from home.  Thanks, Josh, for fixing Lou's head light -- it is very helpful!  There were 84 feet climbed in 1.56 miles along the way, giving that portion a 5.6 tortoise rating.  The rest of the path was flat or downhill.  Lou burned 459 calories in 57:49 minutes doing this.

Please click below for a map and today's walking thought by Spencer Condie ...

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2014 Stats:

937.97 miles walked, which is 93.70% of my 2014 goal.

295:35:04 hours walked, which is 94.44% of my 2014 goal

45,926 total feet climbed 

148,801 calories burned
90.42% of the year has passed

I've walked 57 consecutive non-Sundays since my last missed day on September 20, and overall have walked on 270 of the 283 non-Sundays thus far in 2014, a 95.41% consistency rating.

The purpose of the percentages is to have a higher percentage of distance and time walked than of the year. This tells Tortoise that he is on track. Yes, this is more numbers than you are likely interested in, all Tortoise can say is he's really good at setting high goals and having them slip away because he doesn't do them every, every day.

And now for today's walking thought, originally presented in October 1993:

"In January of 1975, on a dark, rainy night in Tasmania, a 7,300-ton barge smashed into two piers of the Tasman Bridge, which connects Hobart, Tasmania, with its eastern suburbs across the bay. Three spans of the bridge collapsed. An Australian family by the name of Ling were driving across the bridge when suddenly the bridge lights went out. Just then a speeding car passed them and disappeared before their very eyes. Murray Ling “slammed on his brakes and skidded to a stop, one yard from the edge of a black void” (Stephen Johnson, “Over the Edge!” Reader’s Digest, Nov. 1977, p. 128).

"Murray got his family out of the car and then began warning oncoming traffic of the disaster ahead. As he frantically waved his arms, to his horror, a car “swerved around him and plummeted into the abyss” (ibid.). A second car barely stopped in time, but a third car showed no sign of slowing down and crashed into the Lings’ car at the edge of the bridge.

"Suddenly a loaded bus headed toward Murray, ignoring his waving arms. In desperation, risking his very life, he “ran alongside the driver’s window. ‘There’s a span missing,’ he yelled” (ibid., p. 129). The bus swerved just in time and came to a halt against the railing. Dozens of lives had been saved.

"I am grateful for these Brethren whom we sustain as prophets, seers, and revelators who forewarn us of bridges not to be crossed. These great men whom we sustain as prophets, seers, and revelators preach 'not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power' (1 Cor. 2:4)."

To watch, listen to, or read this message in full, please visit https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1993/10/a-mighty-change-of-heart?lang=eng #ShareGoodness

The tortoise is smiling!