Mile 110. Lou decided to follow up yesterday's La Verkin loop by doing a larger, 3.91 mile version of it this evening after enjoying dinner with his ward family. For more on this walk, plus today's walking thought by Thomas Monson, please click below to continue reading ...
Cheerio!
Tortoise completed today's walk in 1:03:21 hours. Tortoise rating was 5.6, based on 103 feet climbed in the 1.96 mile uphill portion (average elevation 3186). 604 calories were burned along the way.
Tortoise's walking map provider, www.mapmyfitness.com, has changed formats and the maps haven't transferred to this blog as well since. (Lou keeps trying without success.) Instead of embedding the map, let's try this link and see if that works better for you to see where he walked today:
And here are the overall stats so far for 2015:
110.28 miles walked, which is 11.01% of Lou's 2015 goal. On this day in 2014, Tortoise had walked 114.85 year-to-date miles.
33:11:25 hours walked, which is 10.60% of the 2015 goal (which is to walk 1 hour a day on the 313 days other than Sunday in the year)
5,116 total feet climbed, compared with 6,373 feet on this day in 2014.
16,460 calories burned
10.22% of the year has passed
Lou has walked 40 consecutive non-Sundays since his last missed day on December 22, and overall has walked on 330 of the 345 non-Sundays since the beginning of 2014, a 95.65% 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 1995:
"Sometimes the lessons will come quietly. A few weeks ago I was visiting a sacrament meeting at a care facility in Salt Lake City. The priests at the sacrament table were sitting quietly prior to performing their duties when the opening hymn was announced. A patient near the front of the large room had difficulty opening his hymnbook. Without so much as a question, one of the young men slipped to the patient’s side and, gently turning the pages to the correct hymn, placed the disabled man’s finger at the beginning of the first verse of the hymn. They exchanged an understanding smile, and the priest returned to his seat. This modest gesture of love and helpfulness impressed me."
To watch, listen to, or read this message in full, please visit https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1995/10/who-honors-god-god-honors?lang=eng #ShareGoodness
The tortoise is smiling!
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