University of North Carolina Charlotte's library. It ended up being 154 stairs. I completed it in 1:18. I was pretty winded. Once again, it goes to show that I haven't prepared appropriately for the race this coming Saturday.
Today (Thursday May 19, 2011) I decided to walk the 22 flights of the library stairs at UNCC. The library only has 10 floors, so I walked 10 flights twice and then walked down to the 8th floor and walked back up to the 10 floor once. This equaled 488 stairs.
I wore a back pack with about 15 pounds of books. I didn't time myself. I was drenched with sweat after this workout. What a tough activity.
There is no way I am going to be able to run the whole race on Saturday. Maybe I'll walk the first 20 flights and try to run the last 10. Since race day is so close, I didn't want to make myself sore - so I chose the Fireman's approach to climbing the stairs. I performed a steady and fast walk the whole way.
We'll see how race day goes. I may do an easy fireman's walk tomorrow at the library - maybe 10 flights and that's it.
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