The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-107

"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 15, 2012

3-107

Short 0.5 mile walk in 12 minutes today, including 20 feet of stairs climbed. This brings my chapter 3 totals to 107.93 miles walked in 42 hours 43 minutes, with 6,734 feet climbed, and 13 swims totalling 4,440 meters in 4 hour 47 minutes.

Click here to read about eating, with net calories today after deducting exercise, and more:

Calorie Goal: 2,391 Calories Consumed: 1,220 Calories Burned: 88 Net Calories: 1,132

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Western Family Oatmeal Old Fashioned	1.50	225	4g	0mg	0mg	41g	0g	6g	8g
Yoplait Light FatFree Blackberry Yogurt	1.00	100	0g	3mg	85mg	19g	14g	0g	5g
Banana, medium	1.00	105	0g	0mg	1mg	27g	14g	3g	1g
Panda Express Mandarin Chicken	0.80	200	8g	100mg	920mg	6g	0g	0g	25g
Panda Express Chow Mein Side	0.80	320	10g	0mg	848mg	49g	8g	6g	10g
Nabisco Triscuit, Reduced Fat	0.57	68	2g	0mg	91mg	12g	0g	2g	2g
Lima Beans n Ham	1.20	202	5g	0mg	2mg	16g	2g	5g	5g

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

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		1,132	28g	103mg	1,948mg	170g	38g	22g	55g

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/DougBeecherSr/#ixzz24oPlQO1q

Today's last word ...

(From reading Habakkuk 2 and Alma 49)

"But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep^asilence before him."

-- Habakkuk 2:20

Don't you love how succinct the scriptures can be ... so many thoughts in one single line ... The importance of reverence and respect. Of silence and l i s t e n i n g to Him. The earth is often so noisy, so full of pointless commotion. The answer to all of it is in the silent majesty of the Lord, who always has the final word. Let us each take some silent time and feel his healing influence!

Cheerio!

2 comments:

UnknownAugust 28, 2012 at 9:37 AM
Not sure if its just me not paying attention, or if its something that is a recent update, but just now noticing your Pacific Crest Trail tally running on the bottom right of your blog...love it!! Was talking to Benjamin last night, and we were getting pumped for the ascent next year, and really excited to finally get to do this with you. Thanks for the continual and daily motivation to get a little stronger and do a little more, and come next year we'll be together atop our summit!! :)
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UnknownAugust 28, 2012 at 10:12 AM
I added the Pacific Coast Trail column item shortly after doing a 1.6 mile trail segment on June 14. You can read more about that walk, my source for the trail miles hiked, and a few pictures, on the Terreeeblay post for that day: http://terreeeblay.blogspot.com/2012/06/3-45.html

The tortoise is having fun! Thanks for your continued encouragement and support.
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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 :-)