The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-94

"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 2, 2012

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I walked 1.00 miles, including climbing 20 feet up stairs, in 24 minutes today, and also swam 100 meters in 5 minutes. Chapter 3 totals are now 92.49 miles walked in 36 hours 47 minutes, with 5,455 feet climbed, and 12 swims totalling 4,340 meters in 4 hour 39 minutes

My weigh-in this morning was 247.9, down 3.9 pounds since my last weigh-in on July 29, and 21.8 pounds total for chapter 3 -- my recommitment since May 1. I think this means I lost more on my cross-country magical mystery tour and up on the mountain with Willyne than I initially thought, and now I have lost the water I held when at 7800 feet elevation for a week. Or something like that ...

Eating, with net calories today after deducting exercise:

Calorie Goal: 2418 Calories Consumed: 2733 Calories Burned: 244 Net Calories: 2489

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	0.50	53	0g	0mg	1mg	14g	7g	2g	1g
2% Cottage Cheese	1.00	100	3g	10mg	350mg	4g	3g	0g	15g
Tomatoes	1.00	25	0g	0mg	0mg	1g	0g	1g	1g
Great Harvest Honey Whole Wheat	2.00	240	0g	0mg	700mg	48g	14g	6g	10g
Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter	2.00	180	12g	0mg	170mg	15g	4g	2g	7g
Jam	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	12g	0g	0g	0g
Homemade Chocolate Cake	0.70	311	7g	0mg	289mg	45g	31g	0g	1g
Pepperidge Farm Chessman Cookies	0.33	40	2g	7mg	26mg	6g	2g	0g	1g
Chicken Potato Stew	1.00	369	1g	68mg	602mg	58g	11g	9g	33g
Faygo Root Beer	2.00	240	0g	0mg	60mg	58g	56g	0g	0g
Peach Cobbler	1.00	241	9g	0mg	0mg	43g	0g	0g	2g
Meadow Gold Vanilla Ice Cream	2.00	260	14g	50mg	110mg	32g	22g	0g	4g
Malt-O-Meal Frosted Mini-Spooners	1.00	190	1g	0mg	10mg	45g	11g	6g	5g
1% Milk	1.00	110	3g	10mg	120mg	13g	12g	0g	8g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 2.5 mph (24min/mi)	24.0	-178.0
Swimming - freestyle, moderate	5.0	-66.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,489	55g	147mg	2,523mg	453g	187g	32g	100g

Today's final word ... from reading Alma 39 and Micah 5

And now, my son, I would say somewhat unto you concerning the ^acoming of Christ. Behold, I say unto you, that it is he that surely shall come to take away the sins of the world; yea, he cometh to declare glad tidings of salvation unto his people. -- Alma 39:15

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 2, 2012

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