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Mile 71.  Tortoise purposely walked the long way to decorate Lou's brother Michael's grave on his birthday ... so Lou could add some hills en route.  Willyne met me there and kindly brought the flowers and took the pictures.  Thank you, Sweetheart.

For more on this, including some more pictures and today's walking thought by Helvecio Martins, please click below to continue reading ...

Cheerio!

This walk totalled 3.25 miles in 54:39 minutes.  Average tortoise rating was 4.7 on the 1.63 mile uphill segment of this walk, based on 238 feet climbed. 484 calories were burned. 

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/619849946

Here are the overall stats so far for 2015:

71.64 miles walked, which is 7.15% of my 2015 goal. On this day in 2014, Tortoise had walked 73.19 year-to-date miles.  

21:11:17 hours walked, which is 6.77% of my 2015 goal (which is to walk 1 hour a day on the 313 days other than Sunday in the year)

3,002 total feet climbed, compared with 3,282 feet on this day in 2014.

10,735 calories burned

6.71% of the year has passed

I've walked 29 consecutive non-Sundays since my last missed day on December 22, and overall have walked on 319 of the 334 non-Sundays since the beginning of 2014, a 95.51% 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:

"After his resurrection, and before ascending to heaven, Jesus asked Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my [sheep]” (John 21:15). The question was repeated two more times, and Peter answered in the same manner; and the Lord replied, “Feed my sheep” (John 21:16, 17).

"This is the work or the stewardship of the home teacher: to feed, to nourish and quench the thirst of the sheep who are assigned to him as a shepherd."

To watch, listen to, or read this message in full, please visit https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1995/04/watchmen-on-the-tower?lang=eng  #ShareGoodness

The tortoise is smiling!