The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-266

"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 24, 2013

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The sun was shining when I started walking home, this is what it looked like when I got home ...
illuminated from across the street by my head lamp!

What my head lamp looks like if you are looking at me

Two walks today. First one was to the post office and the credit union ... 0.65 miles round trip with no climbing in 13 minutes. Tortoise rating: 6.1. Second one was home from work ... 3.05 miles in 1:10:25 hours, including stops totalling about 10 minutes to talk with the Excells as I passed their home en route and to take my pack off, get out my head lamp, and put it on. Tortoise climbed 161 feet in the first mile.
Tortoise rating for that mile: 4.6.

Please click here for info on calories consumed and burned ...

Cheerio!

September 23rd, 2013 Write in your diary: How do you feel today?

Calorie Goal: 2,310 Calories Consumed: 2,738 Calories Burned: 598 Net Calories: 2,140

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
The Daily Plate Generic Calorie	120.00	120	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
The Daily Plate Generic Calorie	10.00	10	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
Quaker Raisin, Date & Walnut	1.00	140	3g	0mg	240mg	27g	12g	3g	3g
Quaker Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Original	1.00	100	2g	0mg	75mg	19g	0g	3g	4g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	1.00	40	1g	0mg	0mg	5g	0g	4g	3g
Yoplait Blackberry Pomegranate Light	1.00	90	0g	0mg	80mg	16g	10g	0g	5g
Banana, Medium	0.50	53	0g	0mg	1mg	13g	7g	2g	1g
Homemade Beef Vegetable Soup	1.00	328	9g	45mg	117mg	40g	7g	9g	20g
Great Harvest Honey Whole Wheat	2.00	240	0g	0mg	700mg	48g	14g	6g	10g
Great Value Fat free Smoked Turkey Breast	2.00	50	0g	20mg	440mg	4g	2g	0g	10g
Tillamook Sliced Medium Cheddar Cheese	1.00	90	7g	20mg	125mg	0g	0g	0g	5g
Romaine Lettuce	2.00	10	0g	0mg	4mg	2g	0g	2g	0g
French's Yellow Mustard	1.00	0	0g	0mg	55mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
Plain Baked Potato	1.00	140	0g	0mg	11mg	26g	3g	3g	4g
Knudsen Lowfat Cottage Cheese 2%	2.00	200	5g	30mg	780mg	8g	8g	0g	28g
Great Harvest Honey Whole Wheat	2.00	240	0g	0mg	700mg	48g	14g	6g	10g
Great Value Fat free Smoked Turkey Breast	2.00	50	0g	20mg	440mg	4g	2g	0g	10g
Tillamook Sliced Medium Cheddar Cheese	1.00	90	7g	20mg	125mg	0g	0g	0g	5g
Romaine Lettuce	2.00	10	0g	0mg	4mg	2g	0g	2g	0g
French's Yellow Mustard	1.00	0	0g	0mg	55mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
Doritos Doritos - Individual Bag	1.00	140	7g	0mg	120mg	18g	1g	1g	2g
Oreo Oreo Milk's Favorite Cookie	1.00	160	7g	0mg	160mg	25g	14g	1g	1g
Kellogg's Raisin Bran	1.50	285	2g	0mg	525mg	68g	29g	11g	6g
1% Milk	1.00	102	2g	12mg	120mg	12g	13g	0g	8g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	13.0	-104.0
Walk: 2.5 mph (24min/mi)	70.0	-494.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,140	52g	167mg	4,876mg	400g	146g	52g	135g

2 comments:

RachelSeptember 24, 2013 at 7:57 PM
It makes me so happy that you are a walker with a head lamp, it just seems like a dad thing to do :) And I always love to see the homefront. Great pictures :)
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UnknownSeptember 24, 2013 at 9:42 PM
I got the head lamp idea from Josh ... had no idea they provided such good light and wouldn't have known where to get one. It makes me feel safer and that people can see me.
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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 :-)