The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-20

"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!

Sunday, May 20, 2012

3-20

Sunday! I rested. Will count 0.5 miles in 15 miles for general walking up and down stairs at home and around the building at church. Chapter 3 totals are 18.58 miles walked in 7 hours 20 minutes, with 258 feet climbed and 150 meters swam in 7 minutes. Weigh-in today was
260.8. I lost 2.0 pounds this week and 9.0 total since May 1.

Eating today:

Calorie Goal: 2,528 Calories Consumed: 1,339 Calories Burned: 74 Net Calories: 1,265

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Malt-O-Meal Frosted Mini-Spooners	1.20	228	1g	0mg	12mg	54g	13g	7g	6g
1% Milk	0.60	66	2g	6mg	72mg	8g	7g	0g	5g
Activia Light Peach	1.00	70	0g	5mg	70mg	13g	9g	3g	5g
Orowheat Sandwich Thins	1.00	100	1g	0mg	230mg	22g	2g	3g	0g
Pulled Pork Bbq	2.00	180	3g	30mg	0mg	22g	18g	0g	14g
CLIF Bar Clif Bar	1.00	230	3g	0mg	125mg	45g	21g	5g	10g
Pulled Pork Bbq	2.00	180	3g	30mg	0mg	22g	18g	0g	14g
Brocolli and rice casserole	1.00	217	8g	8mg	905mg	29g	4g	4g	7g
Green Beans Canned	2.00	40	0g	0mg	800mg	8g	4g	2g	2g
Potato & Cheese Casserole	0.10	28	2g	4mg	69mg	2g	1g	0g	1g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walking - 2 mph	15.0	-74.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		1,265	22g	83mg	2,283mg	225g	97g	25g	64g

1 comment:

UnknownMay 21, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Love the addition of the swimming this week, and think that it really will super charge your workouts and lung capacity/strength which will allow for our "high altitude" adventure to become reality. Congrats on another awes week, and hope you're able to finish the month of May strong!
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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 :-)