The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 189

"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!

Thursday, August 25, 2011

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Day 107 - I walked 3.60 km (2.24 miles) with 52.1 m (171 feet) climbed in 00:39:00. Series 2B totals 269.26 km (167.35 miles) in 56 hours 26 minutes, with 2933.8 m (9624 feet) climbed in 9 counties in 7 states.

No listening again today, not enough battery power to do it. I missed that, it makes the walking that much nicer!

For Benjamin: I slept 6 1/2 hours today.

The battery on my phone has been failing in recent days. I went to the phone store twice today trying to get a good replacement. The second time I was "guaranteed" the replacement battery was good. Well ... it expired at the top of the Main Street hill in St. George at the intersection of Hope Street. (See map below). When I got back to my car parked at the library and plugged the phone into the car charger, I logged back on to Humana Fit, and it assumed that I immediately walked directly back to the car (notice how straight the line is and how it does not follow a street).

I believe I have a good reading on the number of feet climbed at 171. My actual return route was to go on Hope Street diagonally to 500 North, then left to 400 West, left again to 200 North, then right on 300 West across the signal light at the boulevard to 100 South, then left to the point of origin in the library parking lot. I am making an educated guess as to the total distance. I walked 19 1/2 blocks. The Humana Fit map below covers 11 1/2 blocks. I adjusted the distance in the map based on the increased number of blocks. The time of 39 minutes is the actual clock time it took me to walk this 2.24 miles.

Eating today:

Calorie Goal: 2,460Calories Consumed: 1,843Calories Burned: 365Net Calories: 1,478

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Wendy's Crispy Chicken Deluxe	1.00	460	20g	60mg	1,200mg	46g	6g	2g	24g
Wendy's Small Chili	1.00	190	6g	35mg	830mg	19g	6g	5g	14g
Wendy's Vanilla Frosty (small)	1.00	310	8g	35mg	180mg	52g	43g	0g	8g
Cafe Rio Pork Barbacoa Burrito Enchilada Style	1.00	830	29g	90mg	1,990mg	95g	0g	0g	49g
homemade fudge	0.20	41	0g	1mg	3mg	2g	1g	0g	0g
Bing cherries (per cherry)	3.00	12	0g	0mg	0mg	3g	3g	0g	0g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3.5 mph (17 min/mi)	38.0	-365.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		1,478	63g	221mg	4,203mg	217g	59g	7g	95g

2 comments:

AnonymousAugust 30, 2011 at 3:43 AM
Wendys and Cafe Rio, the life and times of terrreeeeblay!
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UnknownAugust 30, 2011 at 12:06 PM
Imagine being on the road and pondering your breakfast choices while staying in motion. Wendy's may not be the first thing that comes to your mind, but I got a lot of "mileage" out of those particular calories. If you like that, check out "chapter" 192 for what I did that day ...
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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 :-)