The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-100

"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!

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

3-100

I walked 1.65 miles, climbing 75 feet, in 33 minutes tonight. No moon tonight, the stars were very nice! Chapter 3 totals are now 99.04 miles walked in 39 hours 15 minutes, with 5,665 feet climbed, and 12 swims totalling 4,340 meters in 4 hour 39 minutes

Here's a map and more ...

Find more Walk in La Verkin, UT

Eating, with net calories today after deducting exercise:

Calorie Goal: 2,418 Calories Consumed: 1,748 Calories Burned: 278 Net Calories: 1,470

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Potatoes - Mashed	2.00	222	9g	4mg	618mg	35g	0g	4g	4g
Campbell's Cream of Chicken Soup	0.50	80	2g	3mg	430mg	13g	2g	4g	4g
Turkey	0.50	110	5g	45mg	315mg	0g	0g	0g	16g
Large Garden Salad	1.00	224	8g	0mg	347mg	28g	8g	10g	11g
Avocado Avocado	0.30	44	4g	0mg	2mg	2g	0g	2g	0g
Chicken Breast	1.00	130	1g	68mg	77mg	0g	0g	0g	27g
Kraft Kraft Free Raspberry Vinaigrette Fat Free Dressing	0.50	20	0g	0mg	190mg	5g	5g	0g	0g
Wheat Cracker	2.00	18	0g	0mg	32mg	2g	0g	0g	0g
Kellogg's Fiber Plus Chocolatey Peanut Butter Chewy Bar	1.00	130	5g	0mg	95mg	24g	7g	9g	3g
Malt-O-Meal Frosted Mini-Spooners	1.50	285	2g	0mg	15mg	68g	17g	9g	8g
G 1% Milk	1.50	167	4g	15mg	197mg	19g	18g	0g	13g
Papa Murphy's Pizza Papa's Cheese Pizza	0.70	189	7g	14mg	329mg	20g	1g	1g	10g
Haagen-Dazs Haagen Dazs Mango Sorbet - Pint	1.00	130	0g	0mg	1mg	31g	31g	1g	0g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	33.0	-278.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		1,470	46g	148mg	2,647mg	246g	88g	40g	96g

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/#ixzz231SxyJ00

I took my vitamins and my Youngevity supplements this morning, along with 20 mg of crestor and fish oil tablets at dinner. I drank 5 glasses of water today.

Today's last word ...

I read Nahum 2 and Alma 44:5-45:17, which contains Alma's final blessing ... and cursing of this land (the American continent) ... both of which continue in effect today:

" ... and he also blessed the earth for the ^brighteous’ sake.

"And he said: Thus saith the Lord God—^aCursed shall be the land, yea, this land, unto every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, unto destruction, which do ^bwickedly, when they are fully ripe; and as I have said so shall it be; for this is the cursing and the^cblessing of God upon the land, for the Lord cannot look upon sin with the ^dleast degree of allowance.

"And now, when Alma had said these words he blessed the^achurch, yea, all those who should stand fast in the faith from that time henceforth." -- Alma 45:15-17

Cheerio!

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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 :-)

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

3-100

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