The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-104

"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, August 12, 2012

3-104

I enjoyed my Sabbath day of rest today, walking 0.5 miles in 12 minutes at church and at home, climbing 20 feet of stairs. Chapter 3 totals are now 105.35 miles walked in 41 hours 50 minutes, with 6,511 feet climbed, and 12 swims totalling 4,340 meters in 4 hour 39 minutes.

Eating, with net calories today after deducting exercise:

Calorie Goal: 
2,391 Calories Consumed: 2,563 
Calories Burned: 88 Net 
Calories: 2,475 

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
CLIF Bar Clif Bar Coconut Chocolate Chip (Clif Bar)	1.00	240	6g	0mg	180mg	42g	22g	5g	10g
Great Harvest Honey Whole Wheat	2.00	240	0g	0mg	700mg	48g	14g	6g	10g
Sliced Tomatoes	3.00	6	0g	0mg	0mg	2g	0g	0g	1g
Turkey Bacon Thick Slice	3.00	120	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g	0g	30g
Romaine Lettuce	1.00	5	0g	0mg	2mg	1g	0g	1g	0g
Best Foods mayonnaise	1.00	90	10g	5mg	90mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
Fresh Limeade	0.30	32	0g	0mg	1mg	3g	1g	0g	0g
Great Harvest Bread Co Honey Whole Wheat Bread	2.00	240	0g	0mg	700mg	48g	14g	6g	10g
Maranatha Almond Butter, Raw, Natural	1.00	195	17g	0mg	0mg	6g	2g	3g	8g
Jam- Mixed Berry	2.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	12g	12g	0g	0g
Paradise Bakery & Cafe Bbq Chicken Chopp Salad	1.00	636	36g	109mg	2,626mg	43g	0g	7g	39g
Meadow Gold Vanilla Ice Cream	3.00	390	21g	75mg	165mg	48g	33g	0g	6g
Hershey's Chocolate Syrup	0.50	50	0g	0mg	13mg	13g	10g	0g	1g
Hershey's Caramel Syrup	0.50	55	0g	0mg	63mg	14g	0g	0g	1g
Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies	2.00	214	11g	24mg	220mg	22g	16g	1g	2g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 2.5 mph (24min/mi)	12.0	-88.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,475	101g	213mg	4,758mg	301g	124g	29g	117g

I took my vitamins this morning, along with 20 mg of crestor and fish oil tablets at dinner. I drank 5 glasses of water today. No Youngevity supplements today.

Today's last word ...

I read Alma 48 and was touched by this verse:

"And this was their ^afaith, that by so doing God would ^bprosper them in the land, or in other words, if they were faithful in keeping the commandments of God that he would prosper them in the land; yea, warn them to flee, or to prepare for war, according to their danger"

-- Alma 48:15

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 :-)

Sunday, August 12, 2012

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