Daily Walk 560 - La Verkin Hill Loop

186.56 miles walked in 2017 (7.32 above goal)

15,265 feet climbed (842 above goal)

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#DailyWalk 559 Confluence View Trail, Tortoise Track, and More!

This first batch of pictures for day 559, with a shoutout to our friends in Fresno, which at 500,000 population (1 million metro) is the largest city in America without an interstate highway.  Doug and Doug have quality memories of the 41 freeway after midnight on the way to doing reunion research in Yosemite.  Excellent magical mystery tour that was!

#DailyWalk 558 Dixie State University Nightcap Double Loop

This one started at 9:44 pm, so I picked a well lit place to do a 4.36 mile double loop of the Dixie State University campus.  It included 218 feet of climbing in 1:16:25, for a tortoise rating of 5.3 and a pace of 17:32.  Year-to-date miles are 177.33 (6.05 ahead of goal) and climbing totals 14,496 feet (714 ahead of goal).

The tortoise is smiling!  Cheerio!

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It's that time of year for working late and then walking, so we have the 10pm indoor special again. For pictures I will refer you to Wednesday (34 of those laps), followed by Monday (135 times). This worked out to 4.24 miles for day 538. Ytd miles 91.61 (+0.58), time 1:18:06, pace 18:25, climb 597, tortoise rating 3.4, ytd climb 7988 (+616). Cheerio!

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Mile 834.  This evening's walk took Tortoise home from his church's special needs activity program by way of a drop down the Cactus Cliff trail hill and back up. We are at consecutive walking day 452.   Today's 3.31 mile walk was done in 1:07:24 hours, for a pace of 20:22 minutes per mile.  Lou climbed 290 feet, today's tortoise rating was 4,5.  More pictures await below ...

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Mile 831.  Tortoise continued walking upstream along the Virgin River from where he left off yesterday, using Washington Dam Road as an alternate route since the trail has a temporary pause until additional sections are built one day.  The Ragozzines are on their way south for Fall break from school.  It was fun conversing with them by phone as I walked -- even though it was because they got stuck in a traffic jam between Fillmore and Beaver.  Thankfully that passed and they made it the rest of the way without too much further delay. We are at consecutive walking day 452.   Today's 4.38 mile walk was done in 1:21:17 hours, for a pace of 18:34 minutes per mile.  Lou climbed 173 feet, today's tortoise rating was 5.5.  More pictures await below ...

Cheerio! 

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Mile 826.  Lou continued his walk along the Virgin River Trail, this time beginning at the Hell Hole trailhead near the intersection of Telegraph and Washington Parkway in Washington, Utah.  He walked down to the river, then upstream to its end near where Country Lane meets Washington Dam Road. We are at consecutive walking day 451.   Today's 4.31 mile walk was done in 1:27:07 hours, for a pace of 20:13 minutes per mile.  Lou climbed 228 feet, today's tortoise rating was 5.2.  Today's weigh-in:  215.8, a 2.3 pound decrease compared with Lou's last weigh-in on October 12.  More pictures await below ...

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Mile 822.  Another tax deadline day.  Tortoise got up early and walked to the city office building and back to start his day. We are at consecutive walking day 450.   Today's 2.14 mile walk was done in 39:26 minutes, for a pace of 18:26 minutes per mile.  Lou climbed 79 feet, today's tortoise rating was 5.4.  More pictures await below ...

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Mile 820.  The double tease.  What do you think Boredom Committee, is this a quality hill for the path to work?  There's more when you click below to continue reading ...

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Mile 815.  Walking home on a late Friday work night before another uberdeadline on Monday.  Sounds like a good time to tease the Boredom Committee, who must be thinking the ultimate boredom is to have no blog posts to monitor at all.  Fear not, Tortoise is still walking!  This will be a quick highlight post, hopefully Lou will come back and add more details to it sometime in November after the next work deadline on the hallowed eve of All Saints Day.  But if you click to keep reading, Tortoise does have a little more for you ...

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Mile 810.  Today's walk started at yesterday's trailhead.  Lou walked from there along the Rim trail to its end at the JEM trail, and then back. We are at consecutive walking day 447.   Today's 3.68 mile walk was 1:16:23 hours, for a pace of 20:45 minutes per mile.  Lou climbed 286 feet, today's tortoise rating was 4.5.  More pictures await below ...

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Mile 806.  Today's walk took Tortoise to the rest of the Cryptobionic Trail.  Quite a name, don't you think?  We are at consecutive walking day 446.   Today's 3.93 mile walk was 1:26:57 hours, for a pace of 22:08 minutes per mile.  Lou climbed 189 feet, today's tortoise rating was 5.0.  Today's weigh-in:  218.1, a 3.0 pound decrease compared with Lou's last weigh-in on October 4.  More pictures await below ...

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Mile 802.  Discovered Goosebumps and Crytobionic Trails today.  It was fun discovering something new, but I misjudged the distance and got pretty tired.  Quality walk though!  We are at consecutive walking day 445.  Today's 6.53 mile walk, plus a bonus 0.69 miles more home from a friend's house a little later took 2:23:57 hours, for a pace of 19:56 minutes per mile.  Lou climbed 405 feet, today's tortoise rating was 4.7.  More pictures await below ...

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Mile 795.  Greetings from the Cottonwood Wash area. Tortoise saw his doctor today.  Walks are helping, but he still needs to get 2 1/2 more inches off and include 20 minutes of his hour long daily walks at 125 heart rate or better.  Well, okay then, he'll do it!  We are at consecutive walking day 444.  Today's 3.80 mile walk was 1:15:45 hours, for a pace of 19:56 minutes per mile.  Lou climbed 252 feet, today's tortoise rating was 4.3.  More pictures await below ...

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Mile 791.  Tortoise started walking the Hurricane Cliffs Trail System in segments again.  Today's segment started at the JEM Trailhead on Highway 59 between Hurricane and Apple Valley.  Along the way Lou discovered that they have made the steep sections of the JEM trail one-way downhill, and added the new Dead Ringer trail to provide a way back up.  Nice!

Lots of pictures for you to browse on this one ...

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Mile 788.  Started with a steep climb and some great views at the east end of 1300 South in Hurricane, then looped up to the municipal airport and back.  Hope you enjoy the pictures.

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Mile 784.  Confluence Park was so nice on Tuesday, Tortoise decided to go back today, this time on the south side of the Virgin River.  He started at the trailhead at the far north end of Hurricane's Main Street, went down the Confluence View trail to the river, then climbed back up the steep hill by taking Chub Trace to the Basalt Trail to Tortoise Track until it becomes 200 West.  He then walked city streets for a little over a mile before returning to his car.  A map follows after more pictures.  The day's walking thought is by Silvia Allred ...

Cheerio!