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Until we meet again ... dropping Sarah off at the SLC airport to head home to Florida.  She won't need that coat there! 

It was a great visit!

Not to be outdone, today was a 4 walk day, albeit one of them is in the running for the shortest Terreeeblay walk ever.  The walks totalled 3.39 miles with 393 feet climbed in 1:18:54.  We had the walk to the Salt Palace, followed by the walk back to the hotel to retrieve the car and take Sarah to the airport.  A little later, I started walking around the Cracker Barrel parking lot in Springville while waiting for Benjamin to arrive.  That walk lasted all of 1 minute 38 seconds of brisk air goodness, then Benjamin arrived and we headed inside to get to the important business at hand.  Breakfast!  

After saying goodbye to Benjamin, I studied the weather map, thinking about where I could walk to avoid the storms and get some hills to climb.  The Scipio Wild Goose trail was discovered!  Tortoise rating:  1.9 (including a half point for the snow I walked uphill in)  Calories burned:  571.

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Another 3 walk day, totalling 3.53 miles with 56 feet climbed in 1:19:28.  Tortoise rating:  5.6.  Calories burned:  467.   Benjamin came up to meet us at Sweet Tomatoes for dinner, after which we found an indoor location for an after dinner walk.  GPS reception was poor, so we had to improvise on the stats, we did 6 laps plus a walk each direction across the parking lot, so if anything we went farther than claimed here.  We also got to try out some surprisingly comfortable cheap furniture ...

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Had 3 little walks today that totalled 3.79 miles with 215 feet climbed in 1:17:52 hours.  Tortoise rating:  5.2.  Calories burned:  602.  First walk was from the hotel to the Salt Palace to start the day.  Second one was a quick round trip back to the hotel during a break to get a folder.  Third one was to see Temple Square while it was still light, get some dinner, and walk Sarah by the hotel we all stayed at the night before she married Darin.  Good memories!

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Surprise!  Sarah came with me to Salt Lake today to attend the Roots Tech family history conference.  We parked the car at the Residence Inn and walked to the Salt Palace to register, then to Temple Square and to the Lion House for their chicken pot pie.  Yummy.  Good thing we got in 3.35 miles of walking with 166 feet climbed in 1:33:39 hours, which reflects how many starts and stops we did along the way. Tortoise rating:  5.3.  Calories burned:  590.   Don't know that I've ever seen a picture of the temple look quite the way the camera on my Android captures it, or Sarah's silhouette for that matter.  

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Walked to and from Valley Academy during the day, then walked to Lins to fill my Crestor prescription and continued down State Street to Main and back to end the day.  The pictures are a glimpse of my piece of the school, generally a couple times a week.  Today's walk totalled 3.79 miles with 118 feet climbed in 1:11:01 hours.  Tortoise rating overall: 5.8.  Calories burned: 591.

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 2014 Stats:

107.71 miles walked, which is 10.77% of my 2014 goal.
34:40:00 hours walked, which is 11.08% of my 2014 goal
  5,992 total feet climbed
17,093 calories burned 
9.58% of the year has passed.
I've walked on 29 of the 30 non-Sundays thus far in 2014, a 96.67% 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.

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The evening walk after work on Hurricane's State Street:  3.71 miles with 66 feet climbed in 1:03:53 hours.  Tortoise rating:  5.9.  Calories burned:  575.  For a map and more, please click below to continue reading.

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 2014 Stats:

103.92 miles walked, which is 10.39% of my 2014 goal.
33:28:59 hours walked, which is 10.70% of my 2014 goal
  5,874 total feet climbed
16,502 calories burned 
9.27% of the year has passed.
I've walked on 28 of the 29 non-Sundays thus far in 2014, a 96.55% 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.

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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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