Mile 531. Day by day, step by step, Tortoise is regaining a little of his strength. He is a gradual kind of guy! Same path as the past couple days -- took a minute and change off the time this morning, which means his heart got worked a little more -- yay! Today's walking thought goes back to 1973, by Ezra Taft Benson ...
Cheerio!
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Today's walk was 2.32 miles, done in 40:30 minutes at an average pace of 17:27 minutes per mile. This route had an average tortoise rating of 4.9, earned by climbing 139 feet in the 1.16 mile uphill portion. Average elevation was 3233.
Tortoise was surprised at today's weigh-in: 221.7, a 2.1 pound decrease compared with Lou's last weigh-in on June 30. For many weeks now, he has had to fight for small fractions of a pound per week, reassured by the fact that generally he was moving in the right direction. Suddenly he drops two full pounds in eight days. He didn't see that coming, but Tortoise will happily take it!
It is also a personal record of sorts for Tortoise, because it takes him below the previous low weight of his post-cancer era, and actually of the last thirty years. That was 222.2, reached on November 20, 2015.
Here are the overall stats so far for 2016:
531.19 miles walked, compared with Lou's goal for this date of 519.11.
36,018 total feet climbed so far in 2016, compared to a year-to-date goal of 31,948. Lou hopes to climb more than the 61,316 feet he climbed in 2015 -- but in less time each day than his 1:07:04 hour per day average in 2015. So far in 2016, Tortoise's walks have averaged 57:52 minutes each.
His average pace so far in 2016 has been 17:45 minutes per mile, compared with his 18:25 minute per mile pace in 2015.
Lou has walked 364 consecutive non-Sundays since his 8 missed days May 2-11, 2015. Overall he has walked on 467 of the 476 non-Sundays in 2015-16, a 98.109% consistency rating.
And now for today's walking thought, with thanks again to Wounded Duck for suggesting it ...
"We live in an age of appeasement -- the sacrificing of principle. Appeasement is not the answer. It is never the right answer."
Elder Benson then goes on to quote John A. Widtsoe from an April 1941 LDS Conference address, "A milk-and-water allegiance kills; while a passionate devotion gives life and soul to any cause and its adherents. The troubles of the world may largely be laid at the doors of those who are neither hot nor cold; who always follow the line of least resistance; whose timid hearts flutter at taking sides for truth."
Makes Tortoise think of Neville Chamberlain. People still debate if he did the right thing when he signed the Munich Agreement in 1938, for better or worse, he is inseparably connected with the word appeasement.
The tortoise is smiling!
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