Mile 291. Another fine walk for Tortoise and his sweet lady to start their day. Two trips around the block by the Maxwells, then Lou went solo up the hill to Richard Beaumont's and back. 3.32 miles in all. For more, including this morning's walking thought by David Haight, please click below to continue reading ...
Cheerio!
Today's walk was 3.32 miles, with a 5.2 tortoise rating earned by climbing 164 feet in the 1.63 mile uphill portion. Average elevation was 3235. This walk burned 487 calories in 1:04:59 hours.
Here are the overall stats so far for 2015:
291.23 miles walked, which is 29.06% of Lou's 2015 goal. On this day in 2014, Tortoise had walked 264.03 year-to-date miles.
85:16:25 hours walked, which is 27.24% of the 2015 goal (which is to walk 1 hour a day on the 313 days other than Sunday in the year)
14,326 total feet climbed, compared with 12,152 feet on this day in 2014.
43,624 calories burned
24.60% of the year has passed
Lou has walked 85 consecutive non-Sundays since his last missed day on December 22, and overall has walked on 375 of the 390 non-Sundays since the beginning of 2014, a 96.15% 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 1997:
"When I was a young boy, about 12 years old, I loved to play baseball. The only piece of athletic equipment that we had around our house was an old baseball mitt. We didn’t have footballs in those days. We didn’t have a lot of other things. I thought the great moment in my life would be that I would be playing baseball for the New York Yankees, and this was back in the days when the Yankees were a great team. I would be playing for them in the World Series, the games tied 3 and 3. Now in the deciding game, guess who would get up to bat? As I stood at the plate, the pitcher would pitch the ball exactly where I’d want it, I’d knock it out of Yankee Stadium, and I would become the hero of the World Series. I thought that would be the great moment of my life. But I want you to know that that isn’t true.
"A few years ago I sat in the Los Angeles Temple in a little sealing room with my wife, Ruby. We had our sons there with their wives—they’d been married just for a short time—and our sweet daughter was kneeling at the altar, holding the hand of the young man she was to be sealed to. And as I looked around the room I then realized that this was the great moment of my life because I had in that room everything that was precious to me—everything. My wife was there, my eternal sweetheart and companion. Our three children were there with their eternal companions. And I thought, David, in your youth you had things all wrong. You thought some worldly event of some kind might be the great event of your life. But now, I was witnessing that great event. I was there, I was feeling it, I felt a part of it, and I knew in that little white sealing room—clean, sweet, pure in that room—with all of my family there that this was the great moment of my life."
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