The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 3-197

"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, November 15, 2012

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Walk today (November 14): 6.34 miles with 210 feet climbed in 1:54:47, a 18:07 minute per mile pace. HumanaFit averaged out the grade at 2.0% on 1.99 miles of the walk and rated it category 5. Tortoise Rating: 5.2. I listened to the Sunday morning session of October 2012 General Conference on this walk, with President Monson just wrapping up his concluding remarks as I arrived home.

Eating: 1,542 calories today; 14,996 calories in the past 7 days. Please click on the line below to see a map and more:
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Eating today:

Calorie Goal: 2,318 Calories Consumed: 1,542 Calories Burned: 972 Net Calories: 570

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Nature Valley Nature Valley Protein Chewy Bar	1.00	190	12g	0mg	170mg	14g	6g	5g	10g
Wendy's Ultimate Grilled Chicken Sandwich	1.00	360	7g	70mg	1,100mg	44g	11g	2g	31g
Wendy's Small Chili	1.00	220	7g	35mg	870mg	22g	6g	6g	18g
Wendy's Frosty - small	0.67	221	5g	23mg	101mg	38g	28g	0g	5g
Generic Spaghetti Noodles	1.00	210	1g	0mg	0mg	41g	2g	2g	7g
Italian sausage homemade spaghetti sauce (bmr)	1.00	231	16g	40mg	947mg	8g	4g	2g	13g
Frogs Eyed Salad	0.50	110	3g	0mg	79mg	19g	12g	2g	0g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3.5 mph (17 min/mi)	109.0	-972.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		570	51g	168mg	3,266mg	186g	69g	19g	84g

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/#ixzz2CGxtRp4X

Today's last word ...

"Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with ^asurety ^bhope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which ^chope cometh of ^dfaith, maketh an ^eanchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in ^fgood works, being led to ^gglorify God."

-- Ether 12:4

from reading in Ether 12 ...

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, November 15, 2012

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