The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 154

"The Blog Almost Too Boring To Be The Most Boring Blog in America ... for Over 5 Years!"

until it got too many red cards from Wounded Duck and the Boredom Enforcement Committee ... now the tortoise's goal is to get to 10 red cards so he can get Big Dog to drive down and take a good long walk with the tortoise

P. S. This blog listens to its readers. We have the Benjamin Category Override for 5+ mile walks and now, it humbles Tortoise to say he has been named "Lou", by Doug Jr, in memory of Mr. Consistency himself, Lou Gehrig. Tortoise can hardly type the words to think he is in any way comparable to the noble Iron Horse. Thank you!

Friday, July 15, 2011

154

For Benjamin: to bed 11:00. Took until midnight to get to sleep. (If you must know, I had bano issues) Up at 5:00, net sleep 5 hours 0 minutes.

Day 72 walk - I was on the phone with clients half of the walk and wound up slowing down as I continued rather than my usual speeding up pattern - 3.80 km (2.36 miles) in 00:48:12. Climb was 27.1 m (89 feet).

Series 2B totals 175.06 km (108.75 miles) in 37 hours 19 minutes, with 2002.1 m (6568 feet) climbed. I walked in a new county today: Los Angeles, California, making the total 8 counties in 6 states. Humana Fit map at end of this post.

Day 7 bullet report: I swam 100 meters in 4 minutes. Total calories burned walking and swimming today: 517. There was no basketball hoop here, so no clinic. Sorry, Doug.

Eating report:

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Zone Perfect Sweet & Salty Cashew Pretzel Bar	1.00	200	7g	0mg	300mg	23g	14g	1g	10g
Meadow Gold Strawberry Lowfat Yogurt	1.00	150	2g	10mg	90mg	30g	23g	0g	6g
Nature Valley Oats And Dark Chocolate	1.00	190	8g	0mg	140mg	28g	12g	3g	4g
Olive Garden Garden Salad With Dressing	0.50	175	14g	0mg	995mg	11g	0g	2g	0g
Olive Garden Hot Artichoke-spinach Dip	0.10	66	3g	0mg	145mg	7g	0g	1g	0g
Olive Garden Pasta E Fagioli (1 Bowl)	1.00	130	3g	0mg	730mg	19g	0g	0g	0g
Andes Candies Chocolate Mints	1.00	200	13g	0mg	0mg	22g	0g	0g	0g
Banana	1.00	121	0g	0mg	1mg	31g	17g	4g	1g
Jamba Juice Bright Eyed & Blueberry	1.50	330	1g	8mg	105mg	65g	57g	3g	17g
Jamba Juice Soy Protein Boost	1.00	30	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g	0g	8g
Fitness	Minutes	Calories Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	48.0	-436.0
Swimming - freestyle, vigorous	4.0	-81.0
Totals:		1,075	50g	18mg	2,506mg	235g	123g	13g	46g

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Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) Segments Hiked

Total lifetime PCT miles hiked: 205.0 out of the 2,650 total.

From 1966 to 1969 segment Tortoise hiked the portion of the PCT shared by the John Muir Trail, covering PCT miles 767.0 to 942.5 (175.5 miles). (While hiking the full 211 miles of the Muir Trail from Happy Isles in Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mt. Whitney)

Tortoise then embarked on a long career at a desk, interrupted momentarily for a day hike in 1988 up Mt. Baden-Powell as a Varsity Boy Scout coach with his team. That took him from PCT miles 374.0 to 377.9, roundtrip. (There was also a second trip from Onion Valley to Mt. Whitney with the Varsity Boy Scouts in 1989. He barely made it, crying with joy and appreciation when he did. That is a story all of its own).

He returned many years later with these walks. Please click on the date for a link to that day's blog post:

June 14, 2012, hiked PCT miles 565.0 to 566.6 (1.6 miles) on both sides of California Highway 58 at the Cameron Road exit.

October 20, 2012, hiked PCT miles 341 to 342 (1 miles) mostly on the east side of Interstate 15 but also under the storm runoff tunnel just south of the exit to California Highway 138 near Cajon Pass.

February 2013, continued in two segments to do miles 342 to 347 (5 miles).

August 13, 2013, hiked miles 374.2 to 376.6 roundtrip from Vincent Gap trailhead at milepost 74.7 on California highway 2.

February 17, 2015, hiked miles 452.9 to 450.4 roundtrip from Vasquez Rocks Picnic Area.

March 16, 2015, hiked miles 341.9 to 340.2 southbound from Cajon Pass Road, then returned. Partial redo of October 20, 2012 walk ... plus a little more.

April 3, 2015, hiked miles 1089.8 to 1091.9 roundtrip from Echo Summit trailhead to near Echo Lake.

May 12, 2016, hiked miles 206.8 to 204.3 southbound from the Snow Canyon Road gate at the bottom of Mt. San Jacinto, then returned.

August 17, 2016, hiked miles 209.5 to 206.8 southbound from the underpass at Interstate 10 Exit 110 to Snow Creek, then returned.

May 26, 2017, hiked miles 369.4 to 364.4 southbound from the Inspiration Point trailhead on California Highway 2, then returned.

The tortoise may eventually set some kind of record for the longest time to complete the PCT in microsegments. You never know, but we're already at 51 years and counting since his first segment from Onion Valley to Taboose Pass in July 1966 :-)