The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-134

"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, September 11, 2012

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Walked 1.50 miles, climbing 112 feet (3.4% grade) in 21 minutes this evening (September 11). Second straight day with a HumanaFit category 5 climb. Tortoise rating: 4.7. The map doesn't load, but at least gives some of the stats. It is essentially the same route as the past few days, except I went a little farther along 600 North before turning around. Please click on the next line to continue reading:

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This brings my chapter 3 totals to 156.35 miles walked in 60 hours 1 minutes, with 11,510 feet climbed, and 14 swims totalling 4,640 meters in 4 hour 57 minutes. This was my 31st category 5 walk. They total 44.20 miles, with 3,711 feet climbed in 15 hours 28 minutes. Average grade while climbing 3.73%.

Eating, with net calories today after deducting exercise:

Calorie Goal: 2,380 Calories Consumed: 2,140 Calories Burned: 256 Net Calories: 1,884

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Steel Cut Oats Organic	1.20	180	3g	0mg	0mg	31g	1g	5g	8g
Yoplait Light Strawberry Yogurt	1.00	90	0g	0mg	80mg	16g	10g	0g	5g
Chicken Rice	1.00	618	23g	48mg	1,314mg	76g	0g	0g	26g
Green Beans Canned	1.00	20	0g	0mg	400mg	4g	2g	1g	1g
Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup	2.00	284	2g	0mg	40mg	36g	0g	18g	30g
homemade honey wheat rolls	1.00	80	0g	0mg	31mg	16g	1g	2g	4g
Cafe Rio Pork Salad W/house Dressing	0.50	400	13g	0mg	0mg	13g	0g	0g	0g
carmel apple cheesecake	1.00	468	27g	114mg	340mg	49g	35g	2g	8g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 4 mph (15 min/mi)	21.0	-256.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		1,884	68g	162mg	2,205mg	241g	50g	27g	81g

I did not take the Youngevity supplements, vitamins, or minerals today. I did take crestor, omega 3 fish oil, low dose aspirin, 8 mg of chlortrimeton for allergies, and 400 mg of ibuprofen for headache. Drank 8 glasses of water.

Today's last word ... from reading in Zechariah 11 and Helaman 15:

"And behold, ye do know of yourselves, for ye have witnessed it, that as many of them as are brought to the knowledge of the truth ... are ^afirm and steadfast in the faith, and in the thing wherewith they have been made free." -- Helaman 15:7-8

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, September 11, 2012

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