PLEDGING FLIGHTS *** A Stair Climb Challenge

[sallyseachange]

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Thanks for the rep points Jimmie and Liv! At the moment, I'm not allowed to "spread the love" in either of your directions.

[RosieC]

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Clifton Suspension Bridge climbed!

Now climbing: Big Ben

[soon2bslim]

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WTG Rosie C!!!!


My updates are as follows

• Sydney Opera House - completed

• Clifton Suspension Bridge - completed

• BT Tower, Birmingham - completed

• Blackpool Tower, in progress - 15/69 flights

I'm getting a little obsessive about seeking out stairs to climb
well, i suppose there are worse obsessions in life

[jimmie 48]

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Clifton Suspension Bridge climbed!

Now climbing: Big Ben

gotcha! congratulations on another successful climb!

Thanks for the rep points Jimmie and Liv! At the moment, I'm not allowed to "spread the love" in either of your directions.

you're welcome! i know how that feels to have to spread it around. it happens at the end of every challenge.

WTG Rosie C!!!!
My updates are as follows

• Sydney Opera House - completed

• Clifton Suspension Bridge - completed

• BT Tower, Birmingham - completed

• Blackpool Tower, in progress - 15/69 flights

I'm getting a little obsessive about seeking out stairs to climb
well, i suppose there are worse obsessions in life

nothing wrong with that obsession, nothing at all.

[sallyseachange]

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Nice climbing Rose and Soon2bslim!

[soon2bslim]

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Blackpool Tower, England 1,036 steps 69 flights DONE!!!!
NOW Climbing Canary Wharf Tower, 5/107 flights!!!

[sallyseachange]

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Nice to see lots of serious climbing getting done around here!

[jimmie 48]

Re: PLEDGING FLIGHTS *** A Stair Climb Challenge

Blackpool Tower, England 1,036 steps 69 flights DONE!!!!
NOW Climbing Canary Wharf Tower, 5/107 flights!!!

i was thinking just yesterday that somebody should be finishing something....

GOOD FOR YOU FOR BEING THAT SOMEONE WITH THE FINISHED SOMETHING!!!!

[RosieC]

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Big Ben completed

Now climbing: Forth Bridge

(eek ... cold, wet and windy up here!)

[sallyseachange]

Re: PLEDGING FLIGHTS *** A Stair Climb Challenge

Big Ben completed

Now climbing: Forth Bridge

(eek ... cold, wet and windy up here!)

Well done!

[RosieC]

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Forth Bridge completed ... now climbing BT Tower

I'm starting to do more flights a day so I'm glad the buildings are getting a little taller!
Since I don't come across many stairs in my average day, I struggled to do more than 4 or 5 flights at first. Now I'm up to 15

I thought of buying a step thingy so that I don't drive my neighbours completely crazy by tramping up and down the stairs outside their apartments. How do you use a step for this challenge? Do you step up onto it with both feet or just one foot? Or kind of one foot on it and then step over? I do not have much experience with gym equipment


EDIT: Now I see there are two types of thing ... a basic step that you step on, and a machine with two steps that go up and down ... no idea what to get

[soon2bslim]

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COMPLETED Canary Wharf Tower 107 flights!!!!!!

***Starting Petronas Twin Towers,Malaysia 3/193 flights - only one more tower after this one !!!!

[jimmie 48]

Re: PLEDGING FLIGHTS *** A Stair Climb Challenge

Forth Bridge completed ... now climbing BT Tower

I'm starting to do more flights a day so I'm glad the buildings are getting a little taller!
Since I don't come across many stairs in my average day, I struggled to do more than 4 or 5 flights at first. Now I'm up to 15

I thought of buying a step thingy so that I don't drive my neighbours completely crazy by tramping up and down the stairs outside their apartments. How do you use a step for this challenge? Do you step up onto it with both feet or just one foot? Or kind of one foot on it and then step over? I do not have much experience with gym equipment


EDIT: Now I see there are two types of thing ... a basic step that you step on, and a machine with two steps that go up and down ... no idea what to get

COMPLETED Canary Wharf Tower 107 flights!!!!!!

***Starting Petronas Twin Towers,Malaysia 3/193 flights - only one more tower after this one !!!!

sorry for the later reply, girls. i did see the email replies though and got your finished climbs recorded to the total.

GOOD JOB TO BOTH OF YOU!

rosie, what i do when i use my stool is count one going up to the step, another going up [with the other foot] and then i step to one side, and again count one going up and another going up with the other foot. i then step down to the opposite side, repeat with the counting and then step back to the start. i get quite a work out doing it this way.

jack is coming along slowly but is still working towards the summit of mont blanc. 1185/2028

i'm getting close to finishing up ben nevis. 417/587

[jimmie 48]

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i just finished ben nevis. glad to have it done!
i'm on my way to mont blanc now. maybe jack and i will summit this mountain at the same time.

[boonie stomper]

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"procedi con calma"

Ahhhhh... ya got me... what I would give for a chance to do this.

OK - Since mayhem still prevails, but I gotta let you know how lost I am so you can call off the search effort, I'm sticking to a rule that WORKS for flights (for me anyway):

Scenario: My 1st morning alarm is 6 am. I have to get out of bed to turn it off - mind you, it IS an unavoidably obtrusive alarm!

The rule is - I can ONLY hit SNOOZE. (this gives me 9 minutes before the next snooze).

Of COURSE, I do NOT want to get up before I have to; which is at the critical point at which my DS must be actively getting ready for school, which is about an hour's bus ride away.

This means 4 -5 more times befoe the deadline, that the alarm forces me to get up, & hit SNOOZE!

The next period of time, Ive got DS up, fed him, given his meds, checked pack, lunchbox, paperwork etc. - bus is around 7 am.
There's 2 -3 more trips to hit snooze before he is off to school - BUT now it is upstairs.

I'd like to go back to sleep just a leeeeetle bit... (SO I can ONLY hit snooze...) & upstairs again, for about 1/2 hour, I do same as part one above, but then I'm getting up.

All my own get ready routines are downstairs, so every 9 minutes, I run upstairs, cuss at the alarm and hit snooze.

And then there's trips to get the stuff I forgot to bring down with me ... etc..


The good news - I'm averaging before I'm off to work, a decent bit of excercise, which includes 7-8 flights of stairs on average, a few minutes apart.

The bad news - I'm no longer on Everest; I've had no choice but to compromise my liberty (time for web stuff not work related) to make ends meet under the constraint of time = money.

On the up side, though, It definitely pays to stick to your priorities!
"I'm 29" again... up a few pounds from my lowest over the summer, but holding steady, amidst the strife and turmoil that could be the downfall of many a person's willpower on any but the Atkin's Diet!