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No walk today, the 11th non-Sunday I have missed in 2014, and the second time I have missed two days in a row.  This leaves me at 119 days walked out of 130 total non-Sundays, for a 91.54% consistency rating.  The tortoise is smiling!

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10th Non-Sunday no walk day in 2014.  This leaves me at 119 days walked out of 129 total non-Sundays, for a 92.25% consistency rating.  The tortoise is smiling!

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Changed it up today and did a morning walk before work, starting from the house on a loop of much of LaVerkin.  3.72 miles with 101 feet climbed in 1:05:29 hours.  Tortoise rating:  5.6; calories burned:  577.  If you'd like to see more, please click below to continue reading ...

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Walked to Valley Academy this afternoon to continue wrapping up my service there, then continued to the ballfields on 200 West and looped back around to the office.  2.75 miles with 141 feet climbed in 51:32 minutes.  Tortoise rating:  5.1; calories burned:  429.  For a map and more, please click below ...

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Snuck in another quick walk this evening after church meetings in Toquerville.  Parked the car at the market and did a loop through the neighborhood on the west side of the highway in La Verkin.  2.45 miles with 97 feet climbed in 0:47:35 minutes.  Tortoise rating:  5.3; calories burned:  383.  Please click below to see a map and more ...

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After work walk to church and back this evening:  2.58 miles with 64 feet climbed in 0:49:33 minutes.  Tortoise rating:  5.6; calories burned:  403.  Please click below to see a map and more ...

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Business is done for this trip.  Headed back home to Utah today.  On the way to the airport, I continued my walk up the path where the Strand in Manhattan Beach and the Marvin Braude Bike Path that goes from Santa Monica to Torrance are side by side, respectively loaded with pedestrians and bicyclists.  I went from 34th Street in Hermosa Beach the short distance to Manhattan Beach, all the way through that community to where the Strand ends at the El Segundo city line.  I'd like to do the whole 23 miles in segments, but the next segment is marked for bicycles only, so I guess I'm going to have to figure out how to walk on the sand next to the path or some variation on that theme.

But I'm getting ahead of myself.  Today I walked 5.2 miles round trip with 104 feet climbed in 1:31:10 hours.  I babied the battery and it made it the whole walk this time!  Tortoise rating was 6.6, but for the third straight day the 5 mile distance gave us the 5th Benjamin category override to an even 5.0 Tortoise rating. (and third day in a row!) Calories burned:  808.  For a map and more, please click below to continue reading ...

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After my last client meeting today in southern California's Inland Empire, I headed to the Pacific Electric trail crossing of Euclid Avenue in Upland and started walking to the beginning of the trail at Claremont Avenue. Totals for today were 6.83 miles with 86 feet climbed in 2:03:04 hours.  Tortoise rating:  6.4, but being over five miles gives us our fourth Benjamin category override to 5.0.  Calories burned:  1,063.  There's a map and more waiting for you if you click below to continue reading ...

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After my appointments in Orange County today, I headed over to 1st Street in Santa Ana to continue my walk on the Santa Ana River Trail.  It was a beautiful day, and I made it to the 22 freeway near it's intersection with the 5 and the 57, and about a mile from Anaheim Stadium.  Overall, I have now walked 11 miles each direction from there to the beach; it's one of three trails I'm working on gradually completing.  The other two I will do the next two days.  Definitely better variety than the treadmill.  Totals for today were 5.82 miles with 85 feet climbed in 1:43:21 hours.  Tortoise rating:  6.7, but being over five miles gives us our third Benjamin category override to 5.0.  Calories burned:  903.

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I travelled to California for a 3 day business trip today, including a cancelled flight, getting rebooked to a different airport, etc., etc ... a true magical mystery tour.  I got to my hotel tired and in good shape at about 11 pm, and soon thereafter visited their version of Terreeeblay, walking 2.19 miles and climbing 115 feet (a 1% grade) in 40:29 minutes.  Tortoise rating:  6.5; calories burned 293.

Please click below if you'd like to see a picture and stats ...

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No walk today, the 9th non-Sunday I have missed in 2014, and the first time I have missed two days in a row.  This leaves me at 111 days walked out of 120 total non-Sundays, for a 92.50% consistency rating.  The tortoise is smiling!

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No walk today, the 8th non-Sunday I have missed in 2014.  This leaves me at 111 days walked out of 119 total non-Sundays, for a 93.28% consistency rating.  The tortoise is smiling!

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Did a morning walk on my way to a half day of work. Being Saturday, I wanted to do something a little extra with the time I had, so I parked just off the highway on the Hurricane side of the La Verkin Bridge, walked up the hill and headed to the trailhead at the Parley P. Pratt memorial.  From there I walked the Confluence View trail down to the Virgin River, then followed the river trail to ... Tortoise Track!  This goes steeply back up to 200 West near the ball fields.  Once on top I made my way back to the car and on to work.  The walk was 3.47 miles with 426 feet climbed in 1:08:34 hours.  Tortoise rating:  3.8; calories burned:  544.  Please click below if you'd like to see a map and more.

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Went to our ward's father and son's to visit a few friends and listen to the program, then went back home Did a quick 2.16 mile walk with 417 feet climbed in 40:59 minutes while I was up there...the first mile of the Flying Monkey Trail, then back.  Mostly it's used by mountain bike riders to basically jump off a 1500 foot cliff, but I didn't go that far ...  Tortoise rating:  2.0; calories burned:  338.  Please click below for a map and yearly stats ...

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It has come to my attention that I am being neglectful in advancing the mission of this blog to lead the way in boredom, after all this is the blog that is too boring to be the most boring blog in America.  I will try to be more to the point and see how that goes for awhile ...

Today's walk was 2.24 miles with 137 feet climbed in 0:40:20 minutes.  Tortoise rating:  4.6; calories burned:  379.  For a map and yearly stats, please click below ...

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I had a quick turkey sandwich at the new Arby's next door to my office and thought you might enjoy seeing what a nice job they did inside!  Right after lunch I did my first of two walks to and from the school ... totalling 2.44 miles with 193 feet climbed in 43:40 minutes.  Tortoise rating on the uphill portion:  4.6; calories burned:  379.  Please click below for a map and more ...

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In my continuing search for new places to walk, I went a mile and a half west of my office today on a beautiful evening after work, and started a meandering (some would call it a magical mystery tour) walk of 3.55 miles with 53 feet climbed in 1:05:21 hours.  Tortoise rating:  5.8; calories burned:  553.  For a map and more pictures, please click below to continue reading ...

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Found a new Hurricane park I didn't know about while taking one of my two walks today.  It's really nice ... includes children's play equipment, covered picnic area, and even two pickleball courts.  I will have to remember this one ...  The walks totalled 2.37 miles with 113 feet climbed in 41:43 minutes.  Average tortoise rating on the uphill portions was 5.2; calories burned were 372.

For maps of each walk and more pictures, please click below to continue reading ...

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No walk today, the 7th non-Sunday I have missed in 2014.  This leaves me at 105 days walked out of 112 total non-Sundays, for a 93.75% consistency rating.  The tortoise is smiling!

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Valley Academy Charter School has been doing something very similar to what my granddaughter Chloe did last year at Healthy Learning Academy near Gainesville, Florida ...walk a marathon (26.2 miles) in little pieces of a mile or so many different days, leading up to the final mile.  Today was Valley's final mile, and I came by and walked with students, teachers, parents, and others who were interested in this.  There's some more pictures when you click below to keep reading, on the way to that I will tell you that I did a second walk later in the day, and the total of both was 3.42 miles with 61 feet climbed in 56:57 minutes, an average tortoise rating of 5.7, and 560 calories burned.  So please go ahead and click below, and we'll see you again soon ...

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Walked a round trip to Valley Academy and back up there again ... with a side trip to Dairy Queen on the way down.  So, thought you would enjoy a view inside, just for a change in pace.  The walks totalled 2.12 miles with 180 feet climbed in 39:46 minutes.  Tortoise rating:  4.9; calories burned:  331.  For a map and more, please click to continue reading ...

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Storm clouds brought us welcome bursts of rain a few times today, I worked in walks in between.  Total of both was 3.97 miles with 172 feet climbed in 1:17:39 hours.  Average tortoise rating was 5.3; calories burned were 621.  Please click below for a map and more ...

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After doing some things at church after work this evening, I parked my car across the street at Davis Farmers Market and headed out on a 4.05 mile walk that took me through always peaceful Confluence Park.  The picture above is a view of the Virgin River from part way up the Cactus Cliff Trail.  My climb of 322 feet gave this walk a tortoise rating of 4.6.  640 calories were burned.  There's a map and more pictures waiting for when you click below to continue reading ...

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Made an unexpected drive to Washington towards the end of the work day and took the opportunity to check out some more of the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve trails just off Interstate 15 at exit 13 on my way home.   Today I used the Grapevine trail to access the Dino Cliffs trail and headed out as far as I could go in thirty-some minutes, then retraced my steps back to the car.  Some fun views along the way ... if you open the picture above up and look at it carefully full screen, you can see Coral Canyon, the block H in Hurricane, and the mountains of Zion Park beyond.  I went 3.59 miles with 269 feet climbed in 1:09:16 hours.  Tortoise rating:  4.0; calories burned:  561.

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We had a fun day playing with Benjamin, Doug, Josh, Megan, Ethan, Kate, and Riley ... including an intense obstacle course.  As all the fun wrapped up, I headed out on a 3.64 mile early evening walk in 1:08:05 hours.  Tortoise rating was 5.6 based on 85 feet climbed; 568 calories burned.  For a map and a 3 minute slideshow of the obstacle course, please click below to continue reading ...

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And to substitute a few words in the time honored Vin Scully greeting, "It's time for (a beautiful evening walk in LaVerkin)! Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good evening to you, wherever you may be."  I walked 3.34 miles with 108 feet climbed in 1:04:19 hours, having stopped for 47:30 along the way to talk with Wade Beatty.  Tortoise rating was 5.5; calories burned were 637.  Please click below for a map and more ...

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My best walk of the day was to go the Dixie (State University) Awards with Jacob, Hilary, and Jacob's drama mentor, Kris Davies.  Jacob's work designing costumes for two plays was on display, and it was really great fun and satisfaction to feel his passion for what he is doing.  So many thanks to Hilary for supporting Jacob through this and to Kris for pushing Jacob to experience just how far he can go with this!  I was honored to be invited to celebrate their joy with them, although neither Jacob nor Kris got the award of the night for which they were nominated, they are both winners for sure!

I didn't measure this walk, there are no statistics that could capture it!  Earlier in the day I got the oil changed in my car and went for a 3.67 mile walk to the Parley P. Pratt memorial at the west end of LaVerkin's Center Street, then down into Confluence Park, climbing 340 feet in 1:10:36 hours.  Roadrunner was done well before the walk was complete, and I appreciate their patience with me in picking up my car after my walk!  Tortoise rating was 4.4; calories burned were 574.

Lots more pictures of both walks, along with a map and more, await you if you click the link below to continue reading ...

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