The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-297

"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!

Thursday, October 24, 2013

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I needed a rest this evening, so I did a shorter walk, didn't push, and stopped to take several pictures. I was enjoying the unique lighting, clouds, light mist and breeze and how it changed the look of familiar landscapes. Including the stops I walked 1.64 miles with 89 feet climbed in 35:27 minutes. Temperature: 69. Tortoise rating: 5.6.

Please click below if you'd like to see a map, more pictures, and detail of calories consumed and burned today ...

Cheerio!

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Calorie Goal: 2,277 Calories Consumed: 3,017 Calories Burned: 265 Net Calories: 2,752

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Thomas' Cinnamon Raisin Bagel	1.00	270	2g	0mg	380mg	54g	12g	3g	10g
Scrambled Egg	1.00	101	7g	215mg	171mg	1g	1g	0g	7g
Morningstar Farms Sausage Patty	1.00	80	3g	0mg	260mg	3g	1g	1g	10g
Milk 2%	1.00	122	5g	20mg	115mg	12g	12g	0g	8g
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
Youngevity Renu IQ Adaptogenix	1.00	10	0g	0mg	0mg	3g	3g	0g	0g
Quaker Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Original	1.00	100	2g	0mg	75mg	19g	0g	3g	4g
Quaker Quaker Instant Oatmeal - Maple & Brown Sugar	1.00	160	3g	0mg	260mg	32g	9g	3g	4g
Renew Life Organic Triple Fiber	1.00	40	1g	0mg	0mg	5g	0g	4g	3g
Dannon Yogurt Activia Lowfat Peach	1.00	110	2g	5mg	70mg	19g	17g	0g	5g
Banana, Medium	0.50	53	0g	0mg	1mg	13g	7g	2g	1g
Deli Turkey	1.00	50	1g	20mg	450mg	2g	0g	0g	8g
Swiss Cheese (deli)	1.00	105	8g	26mg	4mg	1g	0g	0g	8g
Avocado!	1.00	50	5g	0mg	0mg	3g	3g	3g	1g
Wheat Bread	2.00	180	2g	0mg	320mg	32g	6g	8g	10g
romaine lettuce leaves	1.00	5	0g	0mg	2mg	1g	0g	1g	0g
Tomato Slices	1.00	4	0g	0mg	2mg	1g	0g	0g	0g
Mayo	1.00	99	11g	5mg	78mg	1g	0g	0g	0g
Ruffles Potato Chips	1.00	150	10g	0mg	260mg	15g	4g	1g	2g
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
Naked All Natural Mighty Mango Juice Smoothie	0.75	90	0g	0mg	11mg	23g	14g	0g	1g
Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting	1.00	197	5g	1mg	64mg	35g	27g	0g	3g
Nabisco Triscuit, Reduced Fat	0.86	103	3g	0mg	138mg	18g	0g	3g	3g
White texas Sheet cake	0.25	90	3g	14mg	40mg	14g	10g	0g	0g
Lasagna	1.00	350	11g	40mg	930mg	38g	7g	3g	24g
Homemade Split Pea Soup With Ham	3.00	288	2g	15mg	488mg	47g	5g	9g	22g
Pillsbury Crescent Rolls Original	1.00	110	6g	0mg	220mg	11g	2g	0g	2g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3 mph (20 min/mi)	33.0	-265.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,752	92g	360mg	4,338mg	432g	161g	43g	136g

Glasses of water: 4

Two 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.

2 comments:

BenjaminOctober 25, 2013 at 10:21 AM
Feel like the tortoise has stepped his game up recently. Stopping in mesquite to do a 5 miler! Love it! Keep this glorious blog rolling on
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UnknownOctober 25, 2013 at 3:18 PM
Glad to share the joy! What's the chances of you being here the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to walk all or part of the Hurricane Cliffs loop with me? I'm planning to do the whole 20 miles in 8 hours, you could do any part from 2.5 miles on up because there are frequent trailheads along the way. (The JEM trail I've been writing about is part of this loop.)
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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 :-)