The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 13-324

"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!

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

13-324

Still pushing to get done with my work project, so around 8 pm I set out on the same walk I did last night, in similar conditions, cloudy, still, and 51 degrees. Supposed to start raining about now, but not quite yet. We can use it, as always in dry, dusty, but not desolate (that's for you, Bradley and all the Turnpike game crew) southern Utah.

Maybe it was the tunes I found, maybe I'm just in a pushing mood, but I did a personal record on this hill for the second day in a row, this time at 9:16 as compared to yesterday's previous record of 10:02. (The hill portion of this walk is 0.54 miles with 108 feet climbed. Tortoise rating: 4.6) OK, there are people who could run this in under 2 minutes, but I'm the smiling walking tortoise, and this is good stuff.for me :-). The overall walk was 1.35, done in 21:51 minutes.

Please click below for a map, tunes (the original 1968 Classical Gas instrumental masterpiece), and calories consumed/burned details ...

Cheerio!

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Calorie Goal: 2,260 Calories Consumed: 2,448 Calories Burned: 194 Net Calories: 2,254

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Quaker - Maple & Brown Sugar	1.00	160	2g	0mg	270mg	33g	13g	3g	4g
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
Dannon Yogurt Activia Lowfat Blueberry	1.00	110	2g	5mg	65mg	19g	17g	0g	5g
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
Projoba Pollen Burst	1.00	50	0g	0mg	0mg	15g	10g	0g	0g
Chicken Fried Steak with Country Gravy	1.00	489	27g	142mg	620mg	9g	0g	0g	51g
Mashed Potatoes	1.00	237	9g	2mg	699mg	36g	3g	3g	4g
canned corn	1.00	67	1g	0mg	0mg	16g	0g	0g	0g
carmel popcorn snack mix	1.00	328	12g	16mg	377mg	51g	18g	2g	6g
Wendy's Ultimate Chicken Grill	1.00	390	10g	100mg	880mg	43g	10g	3g	34g
Pulled Pork with BBQ Sauce (no bread)	1.00	209	6g	44mg	829mg	23g	19g	2g	16g
Cider vinegar cole slaw	0.67	67	5g	0mg	0mg	12g	5g	1g	0g
Waitrose Mini Corn on the Cob	0.50	23	0g	0mg	0mg	4g	0g	1g	1g
Oatmeal Raisin Cookie	1.00	118	4g	1mg	75mg	20g	11g	2g	2g

Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 3.5 mph (17 min/mi)	22.0	-194.0

Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,254	80g	310mg	3,890mg	323g	119g	23g	130g

2 comments:

RachelNovember 27, 2013 at 11:57 AM
slow and steady tortoise, getting faster up the hills, again - this blog is the best!
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UnknownNovember 27, 2013 at 12:05 PM
Thanks for being such a fine fan ... hope you clicked on the Classical Gas instrumental and listened as you perused further down the blog. You just have to smile listening to this goodness!
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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 :-)