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Mile 66.  Lou did pretty much the same walk as yesterday, but started at dusk instead of 8-ish.  That meant he walked in shirt sleeves in the relative warmth of 54 degrees rather than heavily bundled head to toe as he was last night.  He did add a little more of the parking lot near the family medical clinic adjacent to the middle school.  The day's walking thought is by David Bednar ...

Cheerio!

View from the same spot as last night's picture.  Nice waning sunset this time.

Today's walk was 3.07 miles and had a 4.7 tortoise rating earned by climbing 213 feet in the 1.54 mile uphill portion.  Average elevation was 3285.  This walk burned 495 calories in 49:02 minutes, a pace of 15:58 minutes per mile.

Here are the overall stats so far for 2016:

66.14 miles walked which is 9.68% of Lou's 2016 goal of 683 miles.  His goal for this date is 52.20 total miles.

17:38:13 hours walked which is 8.43% of the 2016 goal (which is to walk 40 minutes a day on the 314 days other than Sunday in the year).  

5,137 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 4,704 feet in the 24 walking days so far in 2016.  So far, so good, but stay tuned.  This is a tough goal.

10,699 calories burned.

7.64% of the year has passed.

Lou has walked 225 consecutive non-Sundays since his 8 missed days May 2-11, Overall he has walked on 328 of the 337 non-Sundays in 2015-16, a 97.33% 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 ...

"For example, a subtle but significant blessing we receive is the spiritual gift of gratitude that enables our appreciation for what we have to constrain desires for what we want.  A grateful person is rich in contentment.  An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment. (see Luke 12:15)"

-- David A. Bednar, "The Windows of Heaven", October 2013 LDS General Conference

The tortoise is smiling!