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This might be one of the more obscure places the tortoise has chosen for a daily walk.  It goes like this.  I was in appointments in the Long Beach, CA area until around 5 pm.  I still had a 420 mile drive waiting for me back home, and my walk to somehow get in.  First job was to figure out how to best escape the traffic.  Remembering that Interstate 15 headed up towards Cajon Pass is a heavy commute anytime, and is extra heavy currently because of construction on the interchange with Interstate 215 at Devore/Glen Helen/San Manuel (formerly Blockbuster) Pavilion (you know who has the economic power when a Native American casino buys out the naming rights to an outdoor performing arts venue from someone who used to be as big as Blockbuster was.)

I decided the least delays would be found by heading up to 710 to the 10 to the 5 to ... the 2! to the 210 to the 14 to the Pearblossom Highway (sometimes known as the 138).  Took me only about an hour to get here, not bad at all.  So ... where is it better to take a walk than outside a Mormon chapel?  Thank you Littlerock chapel of the Palmdale Stake.  I walked outside the gate the first few minutes until someone came to open it for Mutual, at which point I started doing laps around the building.  Like 30 of them.

Totals today:  3.73 miles with 45 feet climbed in 1:01:44 hours.  Tortoise rating:  6.1  Calories burned:  601.

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Started my walk after 11 pm of an especially long workday on the road, so I visited my hotel's version of terreeeblay.  The machine forces you into cooldown at 60 minutes, so to go my usual extra piece, I started the treadmill over again, hence the two concluding pictures of the stats of my workout.

Totals:  4.13 miles at a steady 2% incline (436 feet climbed) in 1:15:28 hours.   Tortoise rating:  6.0.  Calories burned:  611.

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Walked at my lunch break between tax preparation appointments today.  Parked my car at the Foothill Blvd. trailhead in Rancho Cucamonga and took the trail converted from the Pacific Electric railway to Euclid Street in Upland and back.  After lots of cold weather walks, the 79 degree conditions today were almost too pleasant ... I'm sure my heart rate was a little higher!  The round trip walk was 4.17 miles with 49 feet climbed in 1:13:19 hours.  Tortoise rating:  6.4.  Calories burned:  647.   For more pictures and a map, please click below to continue reading ...

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Decided to have a nice day with my Valentine.  Lunch, temple, and more.  No walk.  :-)

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I was trying to show my coat tied on my waist because it's too warm for it now, but when I finish this walk after dark and the wind picks up, perhaps I will need it.  What you did get to see is the smiling tortoise with a few boys already practicing on a ball field on a sunny afternoon in the first half of February.  When I'm hearing from Chief that they are cancelling major basketball games in North Carolina and Tio Guillermo is posting pictures of ghost town icy streets in downtown Atlanta, and my daughters have just barely stopped mentioning the polar vortex (and I suspect it's still cold in Beantown) ... I will take this!

As for my walk, it was 4.17 miles with 154 feet climbed in 1:18:08 hours.  Tortoise rating on the 1.12 mile uphill portion was 4.8.  Calories burned:  651.  There's a map and more if you click below to continue reading ...

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Let's play a little game today.  Before you read on and see where this is, please type a comment and guess the location based solely on this picture.  It's near the turnaround point of a 3.56 mile walk with 56 feet climbed in 1:03:01 hours.  Tortoise rating on the slightly uphill portion:  6.3.  Calories burned:  552.

After you give your guess, please click below to continue reading and be rewarded with more pictures, a map that reveals the location, and other fun tidbits ...

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Managed to start my 3.77 mile walk after work early enough that half of it was in the light of a beautiful late afternoon.  Climbed 131 feet in 1:07:54 hours.  Tortoise rating on the uphill portion:  4.8.  Calories burned:  586.  For a map and more, please click below ...

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