Mile 760. The T-Bone Trail is a beautiful, hilly, two mile trail that goes north from the Red Hills Desert Garden in St. George. Lou took lots of pictures as he walked it this afternoon, and hopes you will enjoy them! Walking thought was provided by Matthew Richardson ...
Cheerio!
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| The first of several pictures at the Cottonwood Road trailhead, today's turnaround point. Tortoise rested his walking sticks while taking the pictures. |
Today's walk was 3.95 miles, done in 1:29:59 hours at an average pace of 22:47 minutes per mile. This route had an average tortoise rating of 3.1, earned by climbing 526 feet in the 1.98 mile uphill portion. The tortoise rating was also adjusted by 0.5 for the sandy trail much of the way. Average elevation was 3148.
This was #hike12 of Lou's 52 Hike Challenge.
Here are the overall stats so far for 2016:
760.91 miles walked, compared with Lou's goal for this date of 742.04.
Tortoise has climbed a total of 53,517 feet so far in 2016, compared to a year-to-date goal of 45,668. Lou hopes to climb more than the 61,316 feet he climbed in 2015 -- as a way to get the 125 heart rate his doctor suggests for these walks. So far in 2016, Tortoise's walks have averaged 59:11 minutes each, compared with his daily average of 1:07:04 hours the previous year. He enjoys seeing what he can do in an hour and change each day!
His average pace so far in 2016 has been 18:07.5 minutes per mile, compared with his 18:25 minute per mile pace in 2015.
Lou has walked 434 consecutive non-Sundays since his 8 missed days May 2-11, 2015. overall he has walked on 537 of the 546 non-Sundays in 2015-16, a 98.352% consistency rating.
Today's walking thought was "Teaching after the Manner of the Spirit", by Matthew O. Richardson from the October 2011 LDS General Conference.
The tortoise is smiling!
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