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Mile 3 as the new year begins and with it, the attempt to repeat walking an average of an hour a day on at least 95% of the 313 days other than Sunday in the year. (Believe me, Tortoise's sixty-one year old bones are ready for a rest each Sunday after six days of walking an hour)  Any day I don't walk at least two miles counts as a missed day.  There were only 15 missed days in 2014, that will be a tough standard to meet or improve on this year!

No Pat Riley guarantees from the Tortoise, just an honest consistent daily effort that should take me at least an extra mile over last year's goal ... that would be 1,002 miles.

For you post-millenials reading this, I offer this little piece of history "rap" on Mr. Riley ...


Understand that when Pat made his guarantee, either the Lakers, or Celtics, or both, had made it to every NBA championship series of the 1980s, but no team had won two championships in a row for 18 years!  People were seriously arguing at that time that it was no longer possible to do so, yet, here was Pat guaranteeing it.

I'm hoping to not only build health and vitality in this effort, but to have so much fun doing it, that many of you will set and achieve your own tortoise goals and share your accomplishments with us here on Lou's blog.  What a great tribute that would be to the noble Iron Horse!

For more on today's walk along with the day's energetic walking thought by Ruth Wright, please click below to continue reading!

Cheerio!

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The Right Honorable Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
(yes, I remember the sincere tributes given him when he died)
http://www.wpclipart.com/famous/political/Churchill/Churchill.png.html

Walked after my last appointment of the day (October 20) ... not much daylight but I did get in 2.25 miles, with 256 feet climbed, on a short segment of the Pacific Crest Trail in 51:32, a 22:56 minute per mile pace.  Uphill half of walk before retracing my steps had a tortoise rating of 3.9.

Eating today 1,820 calories; most recent 7 day total 13,616 calories. Please click on the line below to see a map and pictures of today's category 5 walk:

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Today's blog post is dedicated to the memory of one of my heroes. I hope you will take a moment to click on the link below her picture and read about her.

One of the tortoise's heroes:  Hulda Crooks (1896-1997)
See http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/trips/west97/97aug15/hulda_bio.html

My weigh-in today was 237.2 pounds, down 2.7 pounds since my last weigh-in on October 2, and down 32.6 pounds total for chapter 3 -- my recommitment since May 1.

Minimum 0.5 mile walk with 20 feet climbed in 12 minutes today.  Tortoise rating:  5.7.  Was lucky to get the phone off my ear to do that. Eating: 1,885 calories today; 14,606 in the past 7 days.

Calorie Goal: 2,326 Calories Consumed: 2,382 Calories Burned: 85 Net Calories: 2,297

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Western Family Oatmeal Old Fashioned	1.50	225	4g	0mg	0mg	41g	0g	6g	8g
Mountain High Fat Free Plain Yogurt	1.00	120	0g	5mg	180mg	18g	17g	0g	12g
Banana, Medium	1.00	105	0g	0mg	1mg	27g	14g	3g	1g
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	1.00	40	1g	0mg	0mg	5g	0g	4g	3g
All Bran Loaf	4.00	216	2g	0mg	40mg	52g	24g	6g	6g
Bar-S Foods Corn Dogs honey Batter	1.00	240	15g	50mg	620mg	23g	7g	0g	5g
Delicious Chicken Pot Pie	0.50	269	18g	7mg	558mg	23g	1g	2g	4g
Pumpkin Pie Filling	2.00	234	4g	0mg	379mg	49g	0g	0g	2g
Cascadian Farm Ancient Grains Granola	1.25	275	6g	0mg	113mg	51g	11g	6g	6g
Cascadian Farm Ancient Grains Granola	1.25	275	6g	0mg	113mg	51g	11g	6g	6g
G 1% Milk	1.00	111	3g	10mg	131mg	13g	12g	0g	9g
G 1% Milk	1.00	111	3g	10mg	131mg	13g	12g	0g	9g
G 1% Milk	1.00	111	3g	10mg	131mg	13g	12g	0g	9g
Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 2.5 mph (24min/mi)	12.0	-85.0
Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,297	64g	92mg	2,396mg	392g	133g	34g	81g

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/#ixzz291OmUbPh

Today's last word ... from reading in Matthew 14 and 3 Nephi 26:

"And it came to pass that he did teach and minister unto the ^achildren of the multitude of whom hath been spoken, and he did ^bloose their ^ctongues, and they did speak unto their fathers great and marvelous things, even greater than he had revealed unto the people; and he loosed their tongues that they could utter."                                                                         -- 3 Nephi 26:14

Gives added meaning to the concept of "out of the mouths of babes ... "

Cheerio!