Mile 120. Great picture of my nephew Sam riding well in front of Steve and I. Marnie and the girls were with us as well. A beautiful day to enjoy walking together! We walked a couple miles along the Virgin River Trail up from Washington's Sullivan Soccer park, then returned. For more on this, and today's walking thought by Lynn Mickelsen, please click below to continue reading ...
Cheerio!
Tortoise completed today's 4.08 mile walk in 1:11:18 hours. Tortoise rating was 5.9, based on 71 feet climbed in the 2.04 mile uphill portion (average elevation 2651). 593 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:
120.80 miles walked, which is 12.06% of Lou's 2015 goal. On this day in 2014, Tortoise had walked 121.77 year-to-date miles.
36:11:30 hours walked, which is 11.56% of the 2015 goal (which is to walk 1 hour a day on the 313 days other than Sunday in the year)
5,675 total feet climbed, compared with 6,822 feet on this day in 2014.
18,005 calories burned
10.86% of the year has passed
Lou has walked 42 consecutive non-Sundays since his last missed day on December 22, and overall has walked on 332 of the 347 non-Sundays since the beginning of 2014, a 95.68% 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:
"While teaching at BYU in 1978, Brother Dennis Rasmussen applied and was selected to study at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. In the opening session, as he gave his name and university, Rabbi Muffs boomed, “You’re the Mormon! … Do you pay your tithing?” “Yes,” he answered. “Do you pay it with a joyful heart?” “I believe,” the rabbi said, “that joy is the essence of religion. There is nothing more fundamental to religious living than joy. … I am working on a book about joy.” Brother Rasmussen responded, “There’s a passage in the Book of Mormon … , ‘Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.’” 1Rabbi Muffs was profoundly touched and exclaimed, “I’ve found the text I’ve searched for all my life … in the Book of Mormon.” Turning to Brother Rasmussen he said, “Say it again, but not so fast.” As he repeated the familiar words, the rabbi’s eyes glowed in appreciation of this great truth he understood but had not heard so succinctly expressed. 2"
To watch, listen to, or read this message in full, please visit https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1995/10/eternal-laws-of-happiness?lang=eng #ShareGoodness
The tortoise is smiling!
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