The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-264

"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 21, 2013

13-264

Had lots of fun watching Roo and Ethan play in their soccer games today! Had at least 0.5 miles walked with 20 feet of stairs climbed in 10 minutes ... I didn't measure, but my parking places were far away, especially at Dixie State, so I'm probably low on those figures. (Total miles walked since 6/28: 120.63)

Please click on the line below if you'd like a couple more pictures and info on calories consumed and burned today ...

Cheerio!

Ethan made a spectacular goal shot today, but it happened very quickly and I didn't get a shot of it, so you get him throwing in the ball from the sideline ...

Driving back to the office after the game I came across a really large group of bikers, took me a couple miles to pass them, so this picture doesn't do it justice but I waited until I was stopped in the left turn lane to take it.

Doug Jr was with me today. We had turkey and cheese sandwiches on the good Great Harvest honey wheat bread after the game, and homemade vegetable soup, (with ice cream later) at home. Our one venture out was to try to new Smokehouse Brisket sandwiches at Arby's. Nothing else, just the sandwich. But ... they left off the cheese and grilled onion, so Doug called them on it and we got a corrected batch.

The sandwiches are good. They are so new that livestrong doesn't have them online yet, so I used a similar sandwich for recording purposes. Here's the details of another splurge eating day ...

Calorie Goal: 2,310 Calories Consumed: 4,102 Calories Burned: 80 Net Calories: 4,022

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Malt-O-Meal Frosted Mini-Spooners	1.50	285	2g	0mg	15mg	68g	17g	9g	8g
Banana, large	0.50	61	0g	0mg	1mg	16g	8g	2g	1g
1% Milk	1.00	102	2g	12mg	120mg	12g	13g	0g	8g
The Daily Plate Generic Calorie	120.00	120	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
Great Harvest Honey Whole Wheat	2.00	240	0g	0mg	700mg	48g	14g	6g	10g
Great Value Fat free Smoked Turkey Breast	3.00	75	0g	30mg	660mg	6g	3g	0g	15g
Tillamook Sliced Medium Cheddar Cheese	1.00	90	7g	20mg	125mg	0g	0g	0g	5g
French's Yellow Mustard	1.00	0	0g	0mg	55mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
Doritos Nacho Cheese	1.00	250	13g	0mg	310mg	30g	2g	2g	4g
Julie's Organic Ice Cream Organic Lowfat Frozen Yogurt - Coconut Pineapple	2.00	260	6g	20mg	110mg	52g	36g	4g	6g
Sunbelt Bakery Oats & Honey Granola Bar	1.00	120	5g	0mg	60mg	19g	8g	1g	2g
Langers 100% Juice, Cranberry Plus	1.00	140	0g	0mg	15mg	35g	32g	0g	0g
Quaker Quaker Instant Oatmeal - Maple & Brown Sugar	1.00	160	3g	0mg	260mg	32g	9g	3g	4g
Quaker Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Original	1.00	100	2g	0mg	75mg	19g	0g	3g	4g
Dannon - Activia Activia Light No Sugar Added Yogurt	1.00	60	0g	5mg	75mg	10g	7g	2g	4g
Banana, large	1.00	121	0g	0mg	1mg	31g	17g	4g	2g
Quiznos Smokehouse Beef Brisket - Reg	2.00	1,528	36g	0mg	4,910mg	206g	24g	0g	88g
Dreyer's Rich & Creamy Grand Ice Cream Real Strawberry	1.50	180	8g	30mg	45mg	24g	21g	0g	3g
Dreyer's Grand - Vanilla Bean	1.50	210	12g	38mg	53mg	23g	21g	8g	3g

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

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		4,022	95g	155mg	7,590mg	630g	231g	43g	166g

2 comments:

RachelSeptember 24, 2013 at 7:58 PM
Ethan and Riley are getting so big! And I love Great Harvest bread, that stuff is yummy and leaves you full and happy
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UnknownSeptember 24, 2013 at 9:45 PM
Cannot believe how big they are getting ... and how well they play the beautiful game!
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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 :-)