The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-64

"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!

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

3-64

Just starting to improve in the fight against the virus. Visited with the doctor, got some antibiotics, activity was still minimal today, but a little more than yesterday. I walked 0.33 miles in 10 minutes around the house, including 10 feet climbing stairs and our ramp. Chapter 3 totals are 63.04 miles walked in 25 hours 2 minutes, with 3,360 feet climbed, and 11 swims totalling 4,240 meters in 4 hour 34 minutes.
Eating today, including net calories after deducting exercise.

Calorie Goal: 2,497 Calories Consumed: 2,068 Calories Burned: 49 Net Calories: 2,019

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Wendy's Ultimate Grilled Chicken Sandwich	1.00	360	7g	70mg	1,100mg	44g	11g	2g	31g
Wendy's Chili, Small size	1.00	220	6g	35mg	780mg	23g	6g	5g	17g
Grandma Sycamore's Homemaid Bread	2.00	200	0g	0mg	460mg	44g	4g	2g	6g
Costco Jordan's Roast Beef Deli	1.00	60	2g	30mg	320mg	0g	0g	0g	11g
Costco - Meal Mart Pastrami - New York Kosher Deli	1.00	100	2g	20mg	800mg	4g	0g	0g	18g
Homemade Lasagna	1.00	450	18g	0mg	0mg	40g	10g	5g	40g
Marie Callender's Razzleberry Pie	0.70	252	15g	0mg	126mg	30g	15g	1g	1g
Dreyer's Grand - Vanilla Bean	1.50	210	12g	38mg	53mg	23g	21g	8g	3g
lima beans, cooked	1.00	216	1g	0mg	2mg	39g	5g	13g	15g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walking - 2 mph	10.0	-49.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,019	62g	193mg	3,641mg	247g	72g	36g	142g

2 comments:

AnonymousJuly 5, 2012 at 8:54 AM
Sorry you are still sick.

This blog is awesome, you are doing so good
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UnknownJuly 5, 2012 at 7:47 PM
Well, I wish I could thank you more personally, but thanks for sticking with this blog and giving me your support. I'm just trying to develop a new lifestyle very gradually. I love good food, and I'm surrounded by it. I love to walk, but I have to push myself out the door every time. I mostly feel good doing it, but truth be known, I also ache a good portion of the time. I believe the solution to be to simply keep going, and knowing that I am going to write what I do and don't accomplish, and that people like you care about it, is a very helpful motivator. So thanks!
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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 :-)