"The Blog Almost Too Boring To Be The Most Boring Blog in America ... for Over 5 Years!"

until it got too many red cards from Wounded Duck and the Boredom Enforcement Committee ... now the tortoise's goal is to get to 10 red cards so he can get Big Dog to drive down and take a good long walk with the tortoise

P. S. This blog listens to its readers. We have the Benjamin Category Override for 5+ mile walks and now, it humbles Tortoise to say he has been named "Lou", by Doug Jr, in memory of Mr. Consistency himself, Lou Gehrig. Tortoise can hardly type the words to think he is in any way comparable to the noble Iron Horse. Thank you!


Wednesday, July 27, 2016

16-209


Mile 585.  Tortoise is shown enjoying a welcome moment of shade about halfway through today's walk,  It was taken midafternoon while waiting for the computers to be networked in the new office.  A "free sauna" walk if you will. Depending on which source you believe, the temperature was between 109 and 111 and possibly felt like 114.  Lou simply calls it "100 and hot" whenever it rises into three digits.  His water bottle was warm but still quite welcome along the way!  The walking thought was by Quentin Cook ...

Cheerio!

The view looking ahead from the point where the Tortoise took his selfie.
Which was facing into a tree the other direction.


Today's walk was 3.25 miles, done in 1:04:53 at an average pace of 19:58 minutes per mile. This route had an average tortoise rating of 4.6, earned by climbing 255 feet in the 1.63 mile uphill portion.  Average elevation was 3285.  Tortoise is interested in your comments, dear reader, about how large (if any) an adjustment should be made in today's tortoise rating to adjust for the heat factor.

Here are the overall stats so far for 2016:

585.03 miles walked, compared with Lou's goal for this date of 570.06. 

39,929 total feet climbed so far in 2016, compared to a year-to-date goal of 35,084.  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 58:11 minutes each.


His average pace so far in 2016 has been 17:48.1 minutes per mile, compared with his 18:25 minute per mile pace in 2015.

Lou has walked 380 consecutive non-Sundays since his 8 missed days May 2-11, 2015. Overall he has walked on 483 of the 492 non-Sundays in 2015-16, a 98.171% consistency rating.

And now for today's walking thought  ...


"Religious observance in the home blesses our families.  Example is particularly important.  What we are speaks so loudly that our children may not hear what we say.  When I was nearly five years old, my mother received word that her younger brother had been killed when the battleship on which he was serving was bombed off the coast of Japan near the end of World War II.  This news was devastating to her.  She was very emotional and went into the bedroom.  After a while I peeked into the room to see if she was OK.  She was kneeling by the bed in prayer.  A great peace came over me because she had taught me to pray and love the Savior.  This was typical of the example she always set for me.  Mothers and fathers praying with children may be more important than any other example."


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