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Mile 48.  Today's twist on the walk up the hill from Tortoise's office.  Lou went as far as the driveway into the middle school off of 600 North, went down to the access road off of 200 West, then went back up to finish a "middle school loop" before retracing his steps the rest of the way home.  Perhaps it will be clearer when you look at the map later on in this post.  The day's walking thought is by Linda Burton ...

Cheerio!

Today's walk was 2.96 miles and had a 4.7 tortoise rating earned by climbing 210 feet in the 1.48 mile uphill portion.  Average elevation was 3285. This walk burned 484 calories in 46:22 minutes, a pace of 15:40 minutes per mile.

Here are the overall stats so far for 2016:

48.69 miles walked which is 7.13% of Lou's 2016 goal of 683 miles.  His goal for this date is 39.15 total miles.

12:59:17 hours walked which is 6.20% of the 2016 goal (which is to walk 40 minutes a day on the 314 days other than Sunday in the year).  

3,785 total feet climbed in 2016. Wounded Duck has challenged Tortoise to climb more than the 61,316 feet climbed in 2015 -- but in 40 minutes, rather than an hour daily.  To accomplish this, Tortoise needs to climb an average of 196 feet on each of the 314 walking days in 2016  ... assuming he misses no days at 6 days per week all 52 weeks (definitely quite an assumption!).  But playing along with Wounded Duck, this would mean climbing 3,528 feet in the 17 walking days so far in 2016.  So far, so good, but stay tuned.  This is a tough goal.

7,891 calories burned.

5.73% of the year has passed.

Lou has walked 219 consecutive non-Sundays since his 8 missed days May 2-11, Overall he has walked on 322 of the 331 non-Sundays in 2015-16, a 97.28% consistency rating.

The purpose of the percentages is to have a higher percentage of both distance and of time walked than of the year.  This tells Tortoise that he is on track.  And of course, he also wants to keep the Boredom Committee supplied with plenty of boring numbers so those good folks will be happy ...

And now for today's walking thought ...

" ... we can offer hands to help and hearts to hasten Heavenly Father's wonderful work.

" ... Think what a blessing it is to be called to give our gift of daily discipleship to the Lord, declaring in word and deed, 'Behold, I am a disciple of Jesus Christ!'

"I love the story President Boyd K. Packer told of a dear sister who was ridiculed for following the prophet's counsel to store food.  The one who criticized suggested that if times became desperate, her leaders would ask her to share her food storage with others.  Her simple and resolute response as a true disciple was, 'At least I will have something to bring.'"

-- Linda K. Burton, "Wanted:  Hands and Hearts to Hasten the Work", April 2014 LDS General Conference

The tortoise is smiling!