Stan’s Obligatory Blog

11/11/2013

One Hundred!

Filed under: — stan @ 9:17 pm

Tonight was the one special added stair practice session, and because it was a holiday, Kathleen and I were both off work, and we could go downtown together to do it.

I went in with a plan of just doing two climbs, so that my total would be 99 going in to the race on Saturday. Since I was not going to a lot of times up the building, I thought I’d try the first time for speed. Specifically, to see if I could do 6 floors per minute, which is the fastest I’ve ever gone up this building.

The first time up, I was able to maintain my pace up to about the 20th floor. After that, I started to lose a few seconds each minute. I was doing about 5 3/4 floors per minute. Oh well, It’s just very hard to get in the right frame of mind to do this sport. In any event, i made it to 51 and headed back down to do it again.

I thought I might catch up with Kathleen on my second time up the building, and I did, right around the 25th floor. So I turned off my watch and we walked the rest of the way up together. At that point, I had climbed the building 99 times.

Since it was still early, I decided to go ahead and go up one more time to make my 100. That way, I’ve got my 100 no matter what happens on Saturday, and 101 is a good number, too. So I headed up one more time. I didn’t bother to time it, and I just went up at a nice easy pace. The whole point was just to get to the 51st floor and know that I’d climbed that staircase 100 times since we started in this building back in July.

So now I’ve got my goal for the fall. The only thing left to do is to try and beat George in the race this Saturday.

2 Responses to “One Hundred!”

  1. G.M. Grena Says:

    George’s brain: “Must beat Lisa … Must beat Lisa … Must beat Lisa…

  2. G.M. Grena Says:

    George’s brain post-race: “D’oh!!! Enjoy December while it lasts, because come January-February there will be much pain & agony at the Aon sessions to ensure vengeance at the Strat…” Oh well. I’m satisfied that I stayed on pace w/ my metronome for a fully optimized climb, but Lisa did an excellent job putting in the necessary effort to make the 1-second difference. And I’m happy that you were able to end the year with a satisfactory finish, even if you didn’t get a division medal, after having bonked at some of the other climbs this year.

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