The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-235

"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!

Friday, August 23, 2013

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Arby's was smart to make opening night a summer Friday ...
the view as my walk began

Walked home from work tonight. Did a tiny bit extra at the start to get this picture: 3.10 miles with 209 feet climbed in 1:01:23 hours total elapsed time including 2:37 minutes stopped to take the picture, adjust my pack, etc. Oh yes, the pack. I weighed it tonight. 31.5 pounds, which means Josh was right, it was more like 35 pounds going up Timp last weekend, not 40. The pack is the same, except we ate about 3 pounds of the jerky and other snacks on Timp. Tortoise rating first 0.7 miles with 3.1% grade: 4.5. Tortoise rating the remaining 2.4 miles: 5.7.

I weighed-in at the same time I weighed the pack. 240.8. Somewhere here I have to lose the voracious appetite I have picked up this summer. The combination of plentiful yummy food and being hungrier from walking hasn't been working well for me. I've been in the same 8-10 pound range since last October. But my stamina is slowly increasing, so that is good.

Footnote: Miles walked since June 28 ... 100.57.

Please click here for calories consumed and burned today:

Cheerio!

Calorie Goal: 2,357 Calories Consumed: 2,852 Calories Burned: 770 Net Calories: 2,082

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Steel Cut Oats Organic	1.50	225	4g	0mg	0mg	39g	2g	6g	11g
Banana, large	0.50	61	0g	0mg	1mg	16g	8g	2g	1g
Dannon - Activia Activia Light No Sugar Added Yogurt	1.50	90	0g	8mg	113mg	15g	11g	3g	6g
The Daily Plate Generic Calorie	120.00	120	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
hamburger bun	2.00	240	4g	0mg	412mg	43g	5g	2g	8g
BAR S Polish Dog	2.00	320	24g	130mg	1,360mg	12g	6g	0g	12g
Potato Chips	1.50	285	15g	0mg	345mg	21g	0g	2g	3g
Cheesecake With Strawberry Sauce	1.00	305	10g	0mg	0mg	44g	0g	0g	0g
High Liner (Costco) Tilapia	1.00	110	2g	25mg	25mg	0g	0g	0g	23g
Pasta Roni Chicken & Broccoli Pasta Roni (without meat)	1.00	240	3g	0mg	720mg	47g	2g	3g	9g
Nabisco Triscuit, Reduced Fat	2.00	240	6g	0mg	320mg	42g	0g	6g	6g
Cache Valley Part Skim Mozzarella String Cheese	1.00	70	4g	0mg	150mg	0g	0g	0g	6g
Cottage cheese low fat	1.00	109	5g	12mg	341mg	5g	0g	0g	11g
Campbell's V8 Original	1.00	30	0g	0mg	330mg	7g	4g	1g	1g
cheesecake	1.00	107	11g	91mg	199mg	0g	0g	0g	6g
Great Grains Bakery Double Fiber & Honey bread	1.00	110	2g	0mg	190mg	24g	3g	6g	5g
Skippy Extra Crunchy Super Chunk Peanut Butter	1.00	190	16g	0mg	120mg	7g	3g	2g	7g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Backpacking	60.0	-770.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,082	105g	265mg	4,625mg	321g	44g	32g	113g

3 comments:

RachelAugust 27, 2013 at 12:11 PM
Where is this Arby's? Is this their 3rd time trying to come to the hurricane valley? And I hear you about being in the plateau phase, I've been there all summer, and eating less is so hard and not nearly as fun but worth it in the end :)
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RachelAugust 27, 2013 at 12:15 PM
And your weigh in was down this week, that's not plateau! The little things add up to big things friend, tortoise style!
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UnknownAugust 28, 2013 at 10:14 PM
Arby's is where Dairy Queen used to be, next door to my office. This time they did it right and they will do great. They also did well in the LaVerkin Chevron before that was sold to Maverik. But you're right the earlier tries were dismal failures -- remember the one in the old Shell station. Total nastiness.
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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 :-)