The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-108

"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!

Thursday, August 16, 2012

3-108

Today's walk was 1.31 miles, with 102 feet climbed, in 25 minutes. It was a HumanaFit category 5 walk, my first since August 14, Tortoise rating: 4.4. Totals of my category 5 climbs is now 32.98 miles with 2,910 feet climbed in 12 hours 8 minutes. This activity brings my chapter 3 totals to 109.24 miles walked in 43 hours 8 minutes, with 6,836 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: 2,385 Calories Burned: 208 Net Calories: 2,177

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Kellogg's Eggo Homestyle Waffles	1.50	285	11g	30mg	645mg	41g	3g	0g	6g
Mrs. Butterworth's Original Syrup	1.00	220	0g	0mg	130mg	55g	38g	0g	0g
Jimmy Dean Turkey Sausage	1.00	120	7g	55mg	490mg	1g	1g	0g	13g
Kellogg's Nutty Delights Honey Roasted Almond	1.00	150	7g	0mg	120mg	22g	8g	6g	3g
Pork Barcoa Salad Cafe Rio	0.60	596	27g	67mg	1,236mg	59g	6g	3g	26g
Nabisco Triscuit, Reduced Fat	1.00	120	3g	0mg	160mg	21g	0g	3g	3g
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
Kroger Lowfat Cottage Cheese	1.50	135	3g	23mg	690mg	8g	5g	2g	18g
Iceburg Lettuce	1.00	10	0g	0mg	7mg	2g	1g	1g	1g
yellow cake	1.00	358	11g	52mg	273mg	61g	45g	1g	4g
Peach	1.00	66	0g	0mg	0mg	16g	14g	3g	2g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	25.0	-208.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,177	73g	229mg	3,837mg	345g	135g	25g	88g

Today's last word, found while reading in Alma, chapter 50 ...

"And thus we see how merciful and just are all the dealings of the Lord, to the fulfilling of all his words unto the children of men; yea, we can behold that his words are verified, even at this time, which he spake unto Lehi, saying:

"Blessed art thou and thy children; and they shall be blessed, inasmuch as they shall keep my ^acommandments they shall prosper in the land. But remember, inasmuch as they will not keep my commandments they shall be ^bcut off from the presence of the Lord."

-- Alma 50:19-20

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 :-)

Thursday, August 16, 2012

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