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Mile 942.  Tortoise walked 0.83 miles this afternoon to the playground at the elementary school and back with some very special people.  Later that evening, he did a second 1.61 mile walk in a loop from his house.  There were 102 feet climbed in 1.23 miles along the way, for an average 5.3 tortoise rating.  The rest of the path was flat or downhill.  Lou burned 368 calories in 49:59 minutes doing this.

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Cheerio!

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Grandpa the tortoise walked with his sons Doug Jr, Josh, and Benjamin, as well as his grandsons Ethan and Riley.  Picture postcard sunny 55 degree afternoon.  The rest of you can have your Black Friday lines, give me these great fellows to walk with while breathing clean air and looking at spectacular panoramas in every direction.  It was 2.10 miles, mostly with a slight downhill slope and 39 feet climbed, in 1:01:41 hours.  Tortoise Rating:  5.7.  Part of the slow time was because we were just enjoying hanging out with the grandsons, and part was because we moved aside countless times for mountain bikers also enjoying the trail, views, and weather on this holiday weekend.

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Cheerio!

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A high quality 10k walk on the Virgin River and Middleton Wash trails this morning, as illustrated in the Google Earth clip above.  If you prefer traditional distances, it was 6.26 miles in 2:04:46 hours.  152 feet were climbed along the way.  Exhilarating!