The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-120

"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 28, 2012

3-120

Today's walk was a repeat of yesterday's, but my GPS and HumanaFit gave me credit for an extra 0.2 mile. I'll go with yesterday's distance numbers rather than those on the map below: 1.6 miles with 75 feet climbed in 28 minutes. This bring my chapter 3 totals to 132.27 miles walked in 51 hours 36 minutes, with 8,730 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 La Verkin, UT

Eating today, with net calories after deducting exercise:

Calorie Goal: 2,404 Calories Consumed: 1,448 Calories Burned: 262 Net Calories: 1,186

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
Jimmy Dean Delights Breakfast Sandwich -Turkey Sausage on Whole Grain	1.00	260	7g	140mg	840mg	30g	3g	2g	18g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	1.00	40	1g	0mg	0mg	5g	0g	4g	3g
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
Shrimp Tacos	1.00	290	11g	173mg	595mg	19g	1g	3g	25g
Cafe Rio Black Beans	1.00	140	2g	0mg	230mg	21g	0g	7g	8g
Cafe Rio Style Rice	1.00	63	1g	0mg	464mg	13g	3g	0g	2g
Shrimp Tacos	1.00	290	11g	173mg	595mg	19g	1g	3g	25g
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	1.00	40	1g	0mg	0mg	5g	0g	4g	3g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3.5 mph (17 min/mi)	28.0	-262.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		1,186	38g	486mg	2,724mg	183g	27g	29g	90g

Today's last word ...

My morning walk, listening to Sister Julie Beck, recently released General Relief Society President, speak in April 2012 LDS General Conference:

"President Harold B. Lee shared this vision. He said: “Cannot you see why the Lord has put it upon the … Relief Society to visit these homes? Because, next to the Master himself, there are none in [the] Church who have a more lovely touch, a more complete understanding of the hearts and the lives of these individuals.”²² "

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 28, 2012

3-120

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