The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-47

"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!

Saturday, June 16, 2012

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Good to be back home! Went for a swim, did 43 lengths of the pool (430 meters) in 24 minutes. Definitely the tortoise pace, and I'm OK with that. Chapter 3 totals are 46.56 miles walked in 18 hours 44 minutes, with 1,680 feet climbed, and 7 swims totalling 2,020 meters in 1 hour 56 minutes.

My weekly weigh-in was this morning: 258.4, down 0.8 pounds over the past two weeks, and 11.4 pounds total for chapter 3 -- my recommitment since May 1. I was out of town away from my scale last week.

Eating today:

Calorie Goal: 2,508 Calories Consumed: 1,294 Calories Burned: 329 Net Calories: 965

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Recipe Whole Wheat Pancakes	0.75	117	3g	1mg	267mg	18g	0g	3g	5g
pancake syrup	2.00	102	0g	0mg	2mg	26g	7g	2g	0g
Maple Sausage Patties	2.00	336	23g	113mg	693mg	4g	4g	0g	27g
Ore-Ida Hash Browns	1.50	105	0g	0mg	60mg	24g	0g	3g	3g
Naked Juice Naked All Natural Mighty Mango Juice Antioxidant Smoothie	1.00	120	0g	0mg	15mg	30g	18g	0g	1g
Little Caesars Supreme Pizza	2.00	514	22g	54mg	1,086mg	52g	4g	4g	26g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Swimming - freestyle, moderate	24.0	-329.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		965	48g	168mg	2,123mg	154g	32g	12g	61g

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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 :-)

Saturday, June 16, 2012

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