The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-257

"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!

Saturday, September 14, 2013

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Worked this morning, went to a high council dinner party with Willyne tonight up on Kolob. It was beautiful, food was good, fun to get better acquainted with all these new people we're working with. Today's short walk: 0.5 miles walked with 20 feet of stairs climbed in 12 minutes. (Total miles walked since 6/28: 117.43) Weigh-in: 235.3. Please click here for info on calories consumed and burned today ... and some more energizing tunes :-)

Cheerio!

Calorie Goal: 2,310 Calories Consumed: 3,475 Calories Burned: 80 Net Calories: 3,395

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Quaker Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Original	1.00	100	2g	0mg	75mg	19g	0g	3g	4g
Quaker Apple and Cinnamon Instant Oatmeal	1.00	130	2g	0mg	190mg	27g	9g	3g	3g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	0.50	20	1g	0mg	0mg	3g	0g	2g	2g
Banana, Medium	1.00	105	0g	0mg	1mg	27g	14g	3g	1g
Reese's Reese's PB cups	0.50	105	7g	3mg	75mg	12g	11g	1g	3g
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Vanilla	1.00	150	10g	35mg	35mg	14g	11g	0g	2g
Plain Baked Potato	1.00	140	0g	0mg	11mg	26g	3g	3g	4g
Shamrock Farms Low Fat Cottage Cheese	1.50	150	3g	23mg	660mg	8g	6g	0g	20g
Nabisco Triscuit, Reduced Fat	1.00	120	3g	0mg	160mg	21g	0g	3g	3g
Cache Valley Part Skim Mozzarella String Cheese	1.00	70	4g	0mg	150mg	0g	0g	0g	6g
Campbell's V8 Original	1.00	30	0g	0mg	330mg	7g	4g	1g	1g
Grilled Rib-Eye Steak	2.00	418	25g	149mg	283mg	0g	0g	0g	46g
Dutch Oven Potatoes	1.00	357	21g	73mg	737mg	23g	3g	3g	20g
Market Pantry (SuperTarget) Grated Cheddar Cheese	2.00	220	18g	60mg	340mg	2g	0g	0g	14g
Homemade Sweet Potato Casserole W/ Pecans	0.50	227	11g	39mg	119mg	31g	13g	0g	3g
Frogs Eyed Salad	0.50	110	3g	0mg	79mg	19g	12g	2g	0g
Strawberry Cheesecake	1.00	469	22g	109mg	543mg	55g	41g	1g	13g
Lemonade	2.00	262	0g	0mg	14mg	68g	65g	0g	0g
Malt-O-Meal Frosted Mini-Spooners	1.00	190	1g	0mg	10mg	45g	11g	6g	5g
1% Milk	1.00	102	2g	12mg	120mg	12g	13g	0g	8g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	10.0	-80.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		3,395	134g	502mg	3,932mg	418g	215g	31g	157g

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/#ixzz2evk5yhDQ

Here's the "family night" version originally shown on BBC1 to give you variety from back to the future (of course when I'm walking I get the audio only version) ...

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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 :-)

Saturday, September 14, 2013

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