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Mile 17 on a two-walk Tuesday.  Today's picture is from neither, but is rather a classic sunrise view of the Pine Valley Mountains as the full moon sets.  It's visible faintly to the left of the mountains not far above the horizon.  First walk was a nice walk around the block with Tortoise's sweet lady, followed by an evening walk up the hill from his office as far as 600 North and back.  For more on these walks and today's walking thought, Hartman Rector, Jr.'s farewell Conference address, please click below to continue reading ...

Cheerio! 

Today's walks were 0.84 and 1.33 miles, for a total of 2.17 miles.  A total of 123 feet were climbed in 44:38 minutes.  Average tortoise ratings were 5.7 and 4.6, respectively. 328 calories were burned on these walks.  

My 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 these links and see if that works better for you to see where Lou walked today:

Walk 1:  http://www.mapmyfitness.com/routes/view/608364158

Walk 2:  http://www.mapmyfitness.com/routes/view/608607554

Here are the overall stats so far for 2015:

17.18 miles walked, which is 1.71% of my 2015 goal. On this day in 2014, Tortoise had walked 20.08 year-to-date miles.

4:55:13 hours walked, which is 1.57% of my 2015 goal (which is to walk 1 hour a day on the 313 days other than Sunday in the year)

1,058 total feet climbed, compared with 1,080 feet on this day in 2014.

2,574 calories burned
1.60% of the year has passed

I've walked 13 consecutive non-Sundays since my last missed day on December 23, and overall have walked on 303 of the 318 non-Sundays since the beginning of 2014, a 95.28% 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 October 1994:

"Then to walk guiltless before God, we must love and serve others. His statement through King Benjamin that 'when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God' (Mosiah 2:17), I believe, can properly be turned around to say that 'unless you are in the service of your fellow beings you are not in the service of your God.' (Emphasis added by Tortoise)

To watch, listen to, or read this message in full, please visit https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1994/10/endure-to-the-end-in-charity?lang=eng #ShareGoodness

The tortoise is smiling!