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Mile 1,106.  Tortoise is continuing to catch up on posts from past days when walks happened but writing didn't.  This one is from December 31, 2015, a hillside loop walk in LaVerkin.  Lou was quite bundled, and the picture of the day is of Chief and Stefanie keeping warm indoors.  The day's walking thought is by Dieter Uchtdorf, and there's other tidbits from the five years of walking and blogging that Tortoise completed today ...

Cheerio!

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Mile 51.  Tortoise's basic walking goals for 2015 are to walk two or more miles on 95% of the 313 days in the year that aren't Sundays, and to add an extra mile to last year's goal.  So Lou is trying to walk at least 1,002 miles in 2015, which should require an average of an hour a day.  Guess it's Tortoise's version of Play60 ... we're all kids in the end, right?

Another goal Tortoise has is to push himself a little extra at least one day a month.  This is all about getting the heart rate up and keeping Dr. Carter pleased with his progress.  Lou is starting in January with a goal to do a 3+ mile walk that includes at least a mile walking uphill on something with a tortoise rating of 4.0 or better.  This would mean a grade of 4-6% depending on the elevation of the walk. Each month through August he hopes to gradually add both additional grade and distance, then back off a little as sunlight and weather continue their seasonal cycles.

The plan was to do that today and invite some family to join him.  For this walk, Tortoise was joined by his brother Steve, along with his wife Marnie and three of their children, Hillary, Sam, and Sydney.

For the rest of the story about this walk on the Cottonwood Wash Trail in Washington, Utah, including more pictures and today's walking thought by J. Ballard Washburn, please click below ...

Cheerio!

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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!