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Here's the view as I passed the one hundred mile mark for 2014 near the end of today's walk ... the La Verkin Overlook and Scenic Circle.  7.42 miles with 847 feet climbed in 2:40:45 hours.  Tortoise rating average throughout the uphill half of the walk:  3.7.  Calories burned 1209.

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14-31

We were blessed with slow steady rain most of the day today.  I bundled up to be ready to walk in it after work, and lucked out and mostly missed the rain.  It started up again a few minutes before I was done.  The walk was 3.75 miles with 154 feet climbed in 1:10:01.  Tortoise rating was 5.3.  Calories burned:  586.

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14-30

Church Rocks.  If you live in Washington County, Utah, you have no idea how many times you have passed within feet of this place but never saw it because it was hidden just behind a ledge as you zipped by on the nearby freeway.  I didn't either until I got looking at a map of the Coral Canyon neighborhood trails and noticed that one seemed to connect with several trails in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve.  So for my after work walk today, I went looking to see if I could find what the map was showing me.  It's beautiful!

Today's totals:  2.84 miles with 479 feet climbed in 58:01 minutes.  Tortoise rating on the uphill half of the walk:  2.9.  Calories burned:  496.  For a map and more pictures, please click below to continue reading ...

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14-29

So ... I had about an hour and fifteen minutes to get in my walk after finishing work and before heading to my third of three introductory classes at the local family history center, not all of which would be in daylight.  I really enjoyed picking up a little incline along the way yesterday (felt similar afterwards to the way I feel when I eat an especially fine plate of "scrubbers") and wanted to do something like that again today.

The result was 1.29 miles from the Parley P. Pratt memorial at the end of Hurricane Main Street, down to the Virgin River on the Confluence View Trail then looping back up the aptly named Tortoise Path back to my car.  This was followed by driving to the family history center and walking a 2.10 mile round trip on Hurricane State Street.  Totals:  3.39 miles with 367 feet climbed in 1:08:40 hours.  Tortoise rating on the 0.83 mile uphill portion:  1.9.  (Average grade there was 8.4%.  This probably has something to do with the name "Tortoise Path" ha ha)  Calories burned:  576.

It would be fun to see in the comments how many of you can remember walking with me on either of a couple of Confluence Park paths on the La Verkin side of the river that are visible in the picture above ...

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14-28

Today's version of the walk after work:  3.47 miles with 251 feet climbed in 1:01:34 hours.  Tortoise rating:  4.7.  Calories burned:  539.  Nice view of the Pine Valley mountains behind the new house near the "turnaround point" of my walk.  Please click below to keep reading to see a map and more ...

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14-27

Late evening walk on the well lit main drag after all was done for the day:  2.52 miles with 70 feet climbed in 46:42 minutes.  Tortoise rating:  5.8.  Calories burned:  393.  Please click below to continue reading, for a map and more ...

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2014 Stats:

79.34 miles walked, which is 7.93% of my 2014 goal.
25:26:05 hours walked, which is 8.13% of my 2014 goal
  3,170 total feet climbed
12,521 calories burned 
7.35% of the year has passed.
I've walked on 22 of the 23 non-Sundays thus far in 2014, a 95.6% consistency rating.

The purpose of the percentages is to have a higher percentage of distance and time walked than of the year. This tells me I am on track. I'm sure this is more numbers than you are interested in, all I can say is I'm really good at setting high goals and having them slip away because I don't do them every, every day.

 The tortoise is smiling!

14-25

After work and some quality time with little Jack at the hospital (he is wonderful to hold and love, but it breaks your heart to hear him struggle to breathe.), I had about 40 minutes of daylight for walking.  My stomach was feeling a little off, and believe it or not, my solution was to get in some good uphill walking.  So I parked my car at the Hurricane Hill Trailhead and headed up to Rim Trail for just over a mile before turning around and retracing my steps.

After that, I did another mile and a half along well lit Hurricane State Street.  Today's totals:  3.63 miles with 358 feet climbed in 1:09:47 hours.  Tortoise rating on the uphill portions (totalling 1.39 miles):  3.5, reflecting an average grade of 4.9% with some 8% segments.  Calories burned:  570.  And yes! My stomach did feel better when I finished walking.

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