The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-46

"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, June 15, 2012

3-46

Walked 1.52 miles in 36 minutes today, including 63 feet climbed. Chapter 3 totals are 46.56 miles walked in 18 hours 44 minutes, with 1,680 feet climbed, and 6 swims totalling 1,590 meters in 1 hour 32 minutes.

My walks were in sections today as I made my way back home. Here is a map of the first, and longest section. I arrived at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles on the Metrolink train from Upland. I walked out to Alameda
Street and then up to the post office at the corner of Cesar E. Chavez Avenue so I could mail a letter to a client. From there I went back through Union Station to the Patsaouras Transit Plaza where the Flyaway bus leaves to go to the LAX airport. All of this appears on the map as a maze of back and forth motion, but now you know the "rest of the story"

The second segment was from airport security to a computer recharging station and later to the plane to fly to St. George:

Find more Walk in Los Angeles, CA
Find more Walk in Los Angeles, CA

The final segment was from the plane to Willyne waiting for me in our car at curbside. Got to love how close everything is at our airport!

Find more Walk in St George, UT

Eating today:

Calorie Goal: 2,515 Calories Consumed: 1,880 Calories Burned: 280 Net Calories: 1,600

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Quaker Instant Oatmeal Packet	2.00	200	4g	0mg	160mg	38g	0g	6g	8g
Dannon Activia Yogurt - Strawberry	1.00	110	2g	5mg	75mg	19g	17g	0g	5g
Banana, medium	1.00	105	0g	0mg	1mg	27g	14g	3g	1g
Del Monte Fruit Naturals Red Grapefruit Cup	1.00	60	0g	0mg	15mg	16g	13g	1g	0g
Subway Black Forest Ham Sub (foot Long)	1.00	600	11g	40mg	2,600mg	104g	20g	16g	38g
Frito-Lay Sun Chips	1.00	210	10g	0mg	180mg	27g	3g	3g	4g
Lasagna, Homemade	1.00	385	18g	119mg	544mg	24g	0g	0g	31g
Apricot	3.00	51	0g	0mg	1mg	12g	10g	2g	1g
walnuts	0.30	49	5g	0mg	0mg	1g	0g	1g	1g
Smucker's Caramel Syrup	0.30	30	0g	0mg	33mg	8g	6g	0g	0g
Tillamook Vanilla Bean Ice Cream	0.50	80	5g	13mg	25mg	9g	5g	0g	2g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 2.5 mph (24min/mi)	36.0	-280.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		1,600	55g	177mg	3,635mg	284g	88g	32g	91g

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/#ixzz1xvgAoVrV

My morning devotional today was reciting the Articles of Faith of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to myself silently. It is a powerful summary and testimony of our beliefs!

2 comments:

Doug JrJune 15, 2012 at 11:32 PM
Looks like a total magical mystery tour to me! 🏆
ReplyDelete
Replies
UnknownJune 16, 2012 at 8:18 AM
A magical mystery tour that ends at home even! Doesn't get much better than those. :-)
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

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 :-)