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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 ...

Cheerio!

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Mile 742.  Lou had his semiannual visit with his oncologist today.  He was humorously told the MI-5 would be pleased, as his PSA held steady at 0.07.  Tortoise continues to be amazed that blood tests can be precise enough to detect 0.07 cells per million.  When he started down this road, post-surgery, the best report he could ever get was "less than 0.1" -- the additional digit of accuracy came in later years.

He is simply happy to have the level, whatever it is, stay the same and not increase.  And he feels good!  Now to find out what his heart doctor will have to say on October 10 ...

Wait a minute!  All you wanted to know was what is that dark picture doing here, and where did Tortoise walk today?  Well ... there was quite a rainstorm in tortoiseland today, so the walk was interesting to say the least.  Lou started by doing laps in his house up and down the stairs in the pattern established a year ago May just coming off bronchitis on day 3 of the current walking streak.

He only made it 4 laps before his sweet lady suggested taking the walk outside and under the overhanging roof.  The view you see above is of that.  After more laps of that, the rain paused long enough for Lou to walk to the school and back.  Just as he returned the rain resumed.  Tortoise finished this walk with more tiny laps under the overhang in his back yard.  

Walking thought was by Tad Callister ...

Cheerio!