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Mile 64. Tortoise walked 3.01 miles in a loop starting and ending at his Hurricane office.  For more on this, plus today's walking thought by Cecil Samuelson, please click below to continue reading ...

Cheerio!
Average tortoise rating was 5.8 on the 1.51 mile uphill segment of this walk, based on 50 feet climbed. 471 calories were burned in the 48:25 minutes Lou walked. 

Tortoise's walking map provider, www.mapmyfitness.com, has changed formats recently and the maps haven't transferred to this blog as well since.  Instead of embedding the map, let's try this link and see if that works better for you to see where Lou walked today:

http://www.mapmyfitness.com/routes/view/618653756

Here are the overall stats so far for 2015:

64.10 miles walked, which is 6.40% of my 2015 goal. On this day in 2014, Tortoise had walked 66.39 year-to-date miles.  

18:55:55 hours walked, which is 6.05% of my 2015 goal (which is to walk 1 hour a day on the 313 days other than Sunday in the year)

2,586 total feet climbed, compared with 3,039 feet on this day in 2014.

9,623 calories burned

6.07% of the year has passed

I've walked 27 consecutive non-Sundays since my last missed day on December 22, and overall have walked on 317 of the 332 non-Sundays since the beginning of 2014, a 95.48% 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.  (If you doubt this, compare Tortoise's 2013 walking record with 2014)

And now for today's walking thought, initially presented in April 1995:

"As we strive to better understand how Jesus sees us and contemplate our own   attempts to live as the Redeemer would have us live, let us remember his   instructing observations and their universal applications in literally all that we   do: “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15) and “Inasmuch as ye   have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto   me” (Matt. 25:40).

To watch, listen to, or read this message in full, please visit https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1995/04/as-jesus-sees-us?lang=eng  #ShareGoodness

The tortoise is smiling!