The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-291

"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, October 19, 2013

13-291

Love the full harvest moon rising over Zion National Park in the distance

Stopped at the mall on the way home from taking Willyne to the shuttle ... did my walk there. 1.51 miles with 115 feet climbed in 30:38 minutes on a clear, calm 67 degree evening. Tortoise rating on the uphill return portion of the loop: 4.8 (HumanaFit gave it their category 5).

For a map, info on calories consumed and burned, and some walking tunes in an attempt to keep me company after I said goodbye to my soulmate for a few days, click below to keep reading ...

Cheerio!

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Calorie Goal: 2,298 Calories Consumed: 1,761 Calories Burned: 241 Net Calories: 1,520

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Quaker Apple and Cinnamon Instant Oatmeal	1.00	130	2g	0mg	190mg	27g	9g	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
Activia Mixed Berry	1.00	110	2g	10mg	70mg	19g	17g	0g	5g
Carr's Whole Wheat Crackers	1.50	120	5g	0mg	150mg	15g	5g	2g	2g
Trader Joe's Almond Butter	0.75	143	14g	0mg	0mg	5g	2g	2g	6g
Wendy's Ultimate Chicken Grill	1.00	390	10g	100mg	880mg	43g	10g	3g	34g
Wendy's Chili	1.00	190	6g	40mg	830mg	19g	6g	5g	14g
Sunbelt Bakery Almond Sweet & Salty Chewy Granola Bar	1.00	140	7g	0mg	100mg	18g	9g	1g	2g
Black-eyed Peas, Cooked	2.00	398	2g	0mg	12mg	70g	10g	22g	26g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	30.0	-241.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		1,520	50g	150mg	2,307mg	240g	67g	45g	99g

Glasses of water: 3.

Two 4 mg Chlortrimeton allergy pills and 4 excedrin today. I took my 20 mg crestor today and my prescribed 10 mg Zetia, 500 mg Metformin, 10 MEQ of Potassium Chloride, but not my Nutrilite vitamins.

2 comments:

RachelOctober 24, 2013 at 6:08 PM
A mall walker!! Yes :) I love this, it just makes me smile
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UnknownOctober 25, 2013 at 12:36 PM
I'm just full of surprises, what can I say. When you can find See's, Barnes & Noble, I Found It At Jacob's, and surprises for your sweetie all in one complex, the occasional mall walk (supplemented by walking down the nearby hill and back up) is a treat! Even if I do have to control my addiction to chocolate and nuts while browsing endless rows of exciting books ...
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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 :-)