The Life And Times Of Lou, The Smiling Tortoise: 14-44

"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, February 13, 2014

14-44

I was trying to show my coat tied on my waist because it's too warm for it now, but when I finish this walk after dark and the wind picks up, perhaps I will need it. What you did get to see is the smiling tortoise with a few boys already practicing on a ball field on a sunny afternoon in the first half of February. When I'm hearing from Chief that they are cancelling major basketball games in North Carolina and Tio Guillermo is posting pictures of ghost town icy streets in downtown Atlanta, and my daughters have just barely stopped mentioning the polar vortex (and I suspect it's still cold in Beantown) ... I will take this!

As for my walk, it was 4.17 miles with 154 feet climbed in 1:18:08 hours. Tortoise rating on the 1.12 mile uphill portion was 4.8. Calories burned: 651. There's a map and more if you click below to continue reading ...

Cheerio!

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In case you were wondering, the little humps in the map are not GPS glitches. One is at the ball field so I could take the picture. One was at Valley Academy so I could interrupt my walk and go inside for a meeting for an hour. One was at the signal by the Chevron, because I didn't want to stop for a red light so I went in a backwards circle in Steamrollers' parking lot instead. Crazy? Yes. Fun? Yes.

2014 Stats:

136.93 miles walked, which is 13.69% of my 2014 goal.

44:04:04 hours walked, which is 14.29% of my 2014 goal

7,225 total feet climbed

21,680 calories burned

12.14% of the year has passed.

I've walked on 37 of the 38 non-Sundays thus far in 2014, a 97.37% consistency rating.

The purpose of the percentages is to have a higher percentage of distance and time walked than of the year. This tells me I am on track. I'm sure this is more numbers than you are interested in, all I can say is I'm really good at setting high goals and having them slip away because I don't do them every, every day.

The tortoise is smiling!

1 comment:

RachelFebruary 26, 2014 at 11:23 AM
The polar vortex is still alive and well, unfortunately, it is so frigid and cold, right now 30 but weather.com says it feels like 20, so yes we are above single digit temperatures, but it is freezing, they literally have been out maybe 2 or 3 times for outside recess since Christmas and it is basically March at this point. Bask in that sun el padre!
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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 :-)