The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-287

"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!

Monday, October 14, 2013

13-287

Walked 0.25 miles with 10 feet of stairs climbed in 6 minutes today.

Weigh-in: 234.0 was yesterday morning, I'm just remembering to post it now. Getting back to slow, steady progress, just the way the tortoise likes it.

For info on calories consumed and burned today, click below to keep reading ...

Cheerio!

Calorie Goal: 2,298 Calories Consumed: 2,552 Calories Burned: 43 Net Calories: 2,509

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Scrambled Egg	2.00	202	15g	429mg	342mg	3g	2g	0g	14g
Avocado Avocado	1.00	145	14g	0mg	7mg	8g	1g	6g	2g
Red Grapes	0.50	52	0g	0mg	2mg	14g	12g	1g	1g
Youngevity Ultimate Classic Dietary Supplement	1.00	40	0g	0mg	0mg	9g	9g	0g	0g
Youngevity Ultimate Osteo-fx	1.00	0	0g	0mg	0mg	0g	0g	0g	0g
Youngevity Oxy-Rich Toddy	1.00	23	0g	0mg	0mg	6g	6g	0g	0g
Youngevity Z Radical Fucoidani Zed	1.00	15	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	3g	0g	0g
Carr's Whole Wheat Crackers	1.00	80	4g	0mg	100mg	10g	3g	1g	1g
Trader Joe's Almond Butter	0.33	63	6g	0mg	0mg	2g	1g	1g	3g
Chicken Pasta Salad with Grapes	0.50	195	6g	22mg	152mg	25g	10g	3g	3g
Small Croissant	1.00	171	9g	23mg	232mg	19g	5g	1g	3g
Black-eyed Peas, Cooked	1.00	199	1g	0mg	6mg	35g	5g	11g	13g
Chicken Pasta Salad with Grapes	1.00	390	12g	44mg	304mg	50g	20g	6g	6g
Small Croissant	2.00	342	18g	47mg	464mg	38g	9g	2g	7g
Frosted Sugar Cookie	0.50	95	4g	3mg	55mg	16g	11g	0g	1g
Quaker Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Original	2.00	200	4g	0mg	150mg	38g	0g	6g	8g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	1.00	40	1g	0mg	0mg	5g	0g	4g	3g
Key Lime Dessert	0.75	300	0g	2mg	141mg	68g	66g	0g	8g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 2.5 mph (24min/mi)	6.0	-43.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,509	92g	570mg	1,954mg	360g	163g	42g	71g

Glasses of water: 5

No 4 mg Chlortrimeton allergy pills and 3 excedrin today. I took my Nutrilite vitamins and my prescribed10 mg Zetia, 500 mg Metformin, 10 MEQ of Potassium Chloride and 20 mg crestor today.

2 comments:

RachelOctober 18, 2013 at 1:27 PM
Awesome weigh in, slow and steady is better than slow and the same, which is what i'm pretty much the pro at :)
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UnknownOctober 18, 2013 at 2:23 PM
Thanks, Rachel!
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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 :-)