Mile 129. After a lunch meeting in St. George, Tortoise went to the south end of the Virgin River Trail for a pleasant, sunny, afternoon walk. There's lots more pictures and detail waiting for you, including today's walking thought by Chieko Okazaki when you click below to continue reading ...
Cheerio!
Tortoise completed today's 4.19 mile walk in 1:09:08 hours. Tortoise rating was 5.9, based on 92 feet climbed in the combined 2.10 mile uphill portion (average elevation 2525). 635 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 these links and see if that works better for you to see where he walked today:
And here are the overall stats so far for 2015:
129.16 miles walked, which is 12.89% of Lou's 2015 goal. On this day in 2014, Tortoise had walked 129.20 year-to-date miles.
38:31:50 hours walked, which is 12.31% of the 2015 goal (which is to walk 1 hour a day on the 313 days other than Sunday in the year)
5,875 total feet climbed, compared with 7,015 feet on this day in 2014.
19,259 calories burned
11.50% of the year has passed
Lou has walked 44 consecutive non-Sundays since his last missed day on December 22, and overall has walked on 334 of the 349 non-Sundays since the beginning of 2014, a 95.70% 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 September 1995:
"But the Savior wants us to pull for the deep, to launch into the deep water, because he has treasures for us that simply don’t exist and can’t exist in the sand, the froth, and the constant activity of the beach. The Savior says, “If thou shalt ask, thou shalt receive revelation upon revelation, knowledge upon knowledge, that thou mayest know the mysteries and peaceable things—that which bringeth joy, that which bringeth life eternal” (D&C 42:61). And the experience of Peter, James, and John tells us that we need partners in pulling in this abundance."
To watch, listen to, or read this message in full, please visit https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1995/10/a-living-network?lang=eng #ShareGoodness
The tortoise is smiling!
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