15-29

Mile 83.  A 2.27 mile walk this evening to the Community Theater and back, to watch the dress rehearsal of the Special Needs Mutual roadshow presentation of "Saturday's Warrior".  Tortoise was touched!  For more on tonight's walk, including today's walking thought by Bonnie Parkin, please click below to continue reading ...

Cheerio!

Today's walk lasted 38:29 minutes.  Average tortoise rating was 5.8 on the 1.14 mile uphill segment of this walk, based on 39 feet climbed. 333 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/623494758

Here are the overall stats so far for 2015:

83.19 miles walked, which is 8.30% of my 2015 goal. On this day in 2014, Tortoise had walked 86.20 year-to-date miles.  

24:44:15 hours walked, which is 7.90% of my 2015 goal (which is to walk 1 hour a day on the 313 days other than Sunday in the year)

3,267 total feet climbed, compared with 4,328 feet on this day in 2014.

12,425 calories burned

7.99% of the year has passed

Lou has walked 33 consecutive non-Sundays since his last missed day on December 22, and overall has walked on 323 of the 338 non-Sundays since the beginning of 2014, a 95.56% 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:

"How did you feel the last time you partook of the sacrament? Did you ponder those covenants made in fonts and within temples? The sacrament enables us to renew our covenants. Thus, if we keep those covenants with honor and exactness, we can feel as fresh and as pure as we did when we were first baptized."

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

The tortoise is smiling!