The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-117

"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!

Saturday, August 25, 2012

3-117

Today's walk was hard to measure. Look at the map, then realize I walked to the end of each wing of Concourses A, B, and C before going to the shuttle stop to get my ride the rest of the way home. I know I walked 40 minutes at more than 2.5 miles per hour shown here, so I will count 1.67 miles with 91 feet climbed. Tortoise rating: 5.9. This bring my chapter 3 totals to 128.57 miles walked in 50 hours 24 minutes, with 8,556 feet climbed, and 14 swims totalling 4,640 meters in 4 hour 57 minutes. Please click on the line below for a map and more:

Find more Walk in Las Vegas, NV

Eating, with net calories today after deducting exercise:

Calorie Goal:  2,391Calories Consumed:  1,875Calories Burned: 294Net  Calories: 1,581

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Jamba Juice Apple Cinnamon Steel Cut Oatmeal	1.00	290	4g	5mg	25mg	60g	25g	5g	8g
Orange Carrot Karma (small)	1.00	180	1g	0mg	90mg	43g	38g	3g	3g
Jamba Juice Soy Protein Boost	1.00	30	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g	0g	8g
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
Carls Jr. Grilled Chicken Salad	1.00	270	9g	70mg	800mg	23g	6g	4g	25g
Southwest Airlines Dry Roasted Peanuts	1.00	70	7g	0mg	0mg	2g	0g	0g	3g
Turkey Jerky	1.00	80	1g	20mg	700mg	3g	3g	0g	15g
stroganoff	2.00	550	10g	117mg	1,113mg	83g	6g	5g	32g
My Homemade Rice Pudding	1.00	355	5g	18mg	69mg	67g	29g	0g	9g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 2.5 mph (24min/mi)	40.0	-294.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		1,581	36g	229mg	2,796mg	296g	117g	17g	103g

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/#ixzz24iGD7ubW

Today's last word ... from reading Helaman 3 and Zechariah 4:

"Thus we may see that the Lord is merciful unto all who will, in the sincerity of their hearts, call upon his holy name.

"Yea, thus we see that the ^agate of heaven is open unto ^ball, even to those who will believe on the name of Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God." -- Helaman 3:27-28

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 :-)

Saturday, August 25, 2012

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