The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-106

"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, August 14, 2012

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My camera and I only did partial justice to this fine building
at the start of my first recorded walk in Becca's city

Today's walk of 0.75 miles, climbing 98 feet in 15 minutes, in Cedar City, Iron County, Utah was rated HumanaFit category 5 (Tortoise Rating: 2.9). This was the second straight day with a category 5 walk. Totals of my category 5 climbs is now 31.67 miles with 2,808 feet climbed in 11 hours 43 minutes. This activity brings my chapter 3 totals to 107.43 miles walked in 42 hours 31 minutes, with 6,714 feet climbed, and 13 swims totalling 4,440 meters in 4 hour 47 minutes.

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Eating, with net calories today after deducting exercise:

Calorie Goal: 2,391 Calories Consumed: 1,750 Calories Burned: 125 Net Calories: 1,625

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Carl's Jr. Sourdough Breakfast Sandwich with Sausage	1.00	610	37g	290mg	1,040mg	39g	4g	2g	28g
Carl's Jr. Charbroiled BBQ Chicken Sandwich	1.00	360	5g	60mg	1,150mg	48g	12g	4g	34g
Subway Black Forest Ham Sub (foot Long)	1.00	600	11g	40mg	2,600mg	104g	20g	16g	38g
Nabisco Triscuit, Reduced Fat	1.50	180	5g	0mg	240mg	32g	0g	5g	5g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	15.0	-125.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		1,625	57g	390mg	5,030mg	223g	36g	27g	105g

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/DougBeecherSr/#ixzz24n9w0peA

Today's last word ...

Anyone who studies the workings of the human body has surely “seen God moving in his majesty and power.”¹⁸ Because the body is governed by divine law, any healing comes by obedience to the law upon which that blessing is predicated.¹⁹

Yet some people erroneously think that these marvelous physical attributes happened by chance or resulted from a big bang somewhere. Ask yourself, “Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?” The likelihood is most remote. But if so, it could never heal its own torn pages or reproduce its own newer editions! -- Elder Russell M. Nelson, LDS conference talk "Thanks Be To God", April 2012

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 :-)

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

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