The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-295

"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, October 22, 2013

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Morning walk today while waiting for an oil change on my car. 2.21 miles with 197 feet climbed in 38:25 minutes. No pack. Clear, calm, 49 degrees as the sun is starting to make its way over the bluffs to warm us. Tortoise rating on the return portion of the loop: 4.4.

Please click below to continue reading for a map, info on calories consumed and burned today, and another picture ...

Cheerio!

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Calorie Goal: 2,277 Calories Consumed: 1,937 Calories Burned: 334 Net Calories: 1,603

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
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
Great Harvest Honey Whole Wheat	1.00	120	0g	0mg	350mg	24g	7g	3g	5g
Small Curd Cottage Cheese 4% Milkfat	1.00	120	5g	20mg	470mg	4g	4g	0g	13g
Black-eyed Peas, Cooked	1.00	199	1g	0mg	6mg	35g	5g	11g	13g
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
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
Banana, small	1.00	90	0g	0mg	1mg	23g	12g	3g	1g
Dannon Yogurt Activia Lowfat Peach	1.00	110	2g	5mg	70mg	19g	17g	0g	5g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	1.00	40	1g	0mg	0mg	5g	0g	4g	3g
Premier Nutrition Chocolate Protein Shake	1.00	160	3g	15mg	330mg	5g	1g	3g	30g
High Liner (Costco) Tortilla Crusted Tilapia	1.00	170	6g	20mg	360mg	12g	0g	0g	18g
Mashed Potatoes	1.00	237	9g	2mg	699mg	36g	3g	3g	4g
Campbell's V8 Original	1.00	30	0g	0mg	330mg	7g	4g	1g	1g
Pumpkin Bread	0.50	143	4g	21mg	194mg	26g	0g	0g	2g
Tillamook Vanilla Bean Ice Cream	1.00	160	9g	25mg	50mg	17g	10g	0g	3g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3.5 mph (17 min/mi)	38.0	-334.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		1,603	43g	108mg	3,126mg	304g	100g	34g	105g

Glasses of water: 5

No 4 mg Chlortrimeton allergy pills and 2 excedrin today. I took my prescribed 20 mg crestor and the 10 mg Zetia, 500 mg Metformin, 10 MEQ of Potassium Chloride, but not my Nutrilite vitamins today.

View of State Street as I near the end of this walk.

2 comments:

RachelOctober 24, 2013 at 6:01 PM
Seriously, that first picture is just home. I love the view, especially in the morning light
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UnknownOctober 25, 2013 at 3:13 PM
You are the one I was thinking of when I turned the corner and saw the morning light hitting the mountain just right. "I have to take this picture, it will make Rachel smile!"
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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 :-)