Mile 133. Walked home tonight, with a stop at Special Needs Mutual on the way! There are more pictures and detail waiting for you, including today's walking thought by Earl Tingey when you click below to continue reading ...
Tortoise completed today's 4.41 mile walk in 1:14:26 hours. Tortoise rating was 5.5, based on 134 feet climbed in the combined 2.21 mile uphill portion (average elevation 3228). 653 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:
133.57 miles walked, which is 13.33% of Lou's 2015 goal. On this day in 2014, Tortoise had walked 132.76 year-to-date miles. Which means today is the day Lou has finally caught up with last year's pace!
39:46:16 hours walked, which is 12.71% of the 2015 goal (which is to walk 1 hour a day on the 313 days other than Sunday in the year)
6,009 total feet climbed, compared with 7,071 feet on this day in 2014. So Tortoise is still lagging last year's pace in the number of hills he has sped up his old ticker with.
19,912 calories burned
11.82% of the year has passed
Lou has walked 45 consecutive non-Sundays since his last missed day on December 22, and overall has walked on 335 of the 350 non-Sundays since the beginning of 2014, a 95.71% 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 1996:
"In a recent regional training meeting for priesthood leaders, President Gordon B. Hinckley expressed concern that members of the Church may have a tendency to take on the ways of the world. He said: “We don’t adopt them immediately, but we slowly take them on, unfortunately. I wish I had the power to convert this whole Church to the observance of the Sabbath. I know our people would be more richly blessed of the Lord if they would walk in faithfulness in the observance of the Sabbath.” 6
To watch, listen to, or read this message in full, please visit https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1996/04/the-sabbath-day-and-sunday-shopping?lang=eng #ShareGoodness
The tortoise is smiling!
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