Need stairstepper challenge ideas...

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My Stairmaster is my machine of choice right now and for fun, I've devised a chart to track the number of floors climbed and the total distance climbed up. I've assumed 10 feet per floor. (Yes, I know a "step" on a Stairmaster isn't the equivalent of a real step, due to the decreased resistance...but, alas, I press on.)

My first challenge is to "climb" the Seven Summits, ending with Mt. Everest. By way of example, 45 mins on the machine today yielded 153 floors, or 1530 feet. So, you can see, in a couple of months, I will likely go through all Seven Summits.

I was thinking perhaps the world's tallest buildings next, but even the tallest building is less than 153 floors, so knocking off the world's tallest building in 35 minutes wouldn't be very impressive.

So, I think I'm stuck with mountains. I'm thinking of knocking the Seven Summits off first, then perhaps finding the highest point in all 50 states and charting my progress on a map. Some states (like mine, on the ocean), will be easy. A couple other quick ideas are to do the US's highest seven or ten summits or a "World Landmark" tour, such as the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, etc.

Any other creative ideas (or suggested modifications to mine)?

Thanks for any thoughts!

[Georgiana]

Re: Need stairstepper challenge ideas...

Did you check out this challenge?

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/forums/exercise-challenges/28906-pledging-flights-stair-climb-challenge.html

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Re: Need stairstepper challenge ideas...

I did see that, but didn't think using Stairstepper steps 'counts' for the resistance reason I note above.

As it turns out, looks like I don't need any ideas....I just compiled the state spreadsheet and I will have to do 191 sessions like I did today to scale all the peaks in the US! So, I'm going to start with that challenge, and then do the Seven Summits after it since I've always dreamed of climbing Mount Everest, so that will be my finale. I think this will take me a good couple of years to finish, but what fun it will be!

Oh, for those wondering... (The last two columns are feet and "floors").

1 Florida Britton Hill 345 35
2 Delaware Elbright Azimuth 442 44
3 Louisiana Driskill Mountain 535 54
4 Mississippi Woodall Mountain 806 81
5 Rhode Island Jerimoth Hill 812 81
6 Illinois Charles Mound 1235 124
7 Indiana Hoosier Hill 1257 126
8 Ohio Campbell Hill 1550 155
9 Iowa High Point 1670 167
10 Missouri Taum Sauk Mountain 1772 177
11 New Jersey High Point 1803 180
12 Wisconsin Timms Hill 1951 195
13 Michigan Mount Arvon 1979 198
14 Minnesota Eagle Mountain 2301 230
15 Connecticut Mount Frissel 2380 238
16 Alabama Cheaha Mountain 2407 241
17 Arkansas Magazine Peak 2753 275
18 Pennsylvania Mount Davis 3213 321
19 Maryland Backbone Mountain 3360 336
20 Massachusetts Mount Greylock 3491 349
21 North Dakota White Butte 3506 351
22 South Carolina Sassafrass Mountain 3560 356
23 Kansas Mount Sunflower 4039 404
24 Kentucky Black Mountain 4145 415
25 Vermont Mount Mansfield 4393 439
26 Georgia Brasstown Bald 4784 478
27 West Virginia Spruce Knob 4863 486
28 Oklahoma Black Mesa 4973 497
29 Maine Katahdin 5267 527
30 New York Mount Marcy 5344 534
31 Nebraska Panorama Point 5424 542
32 Virginia Mount Rogers 5729 573
33 New Hampshire Mount Washington 6288 629
34 Tennessee Clingman's Dome 6643 664
34 North Carolina Mount Mitchell 6684 668
36 South Dakota Harney Peak 7242 724
37 Texas Guadalupe Peak 8749 875
38 Oregon Mount Hood 11239 1124
40 Arizona Humphrey's Peak 12633 1263
41 Idaho Borah Peak 12662 1266
42 Montana Granite Peak 12799 1280
43 Nevada Boundary Peak 13134 1313
44 New Mexico Wheeler Peak 13161 1316
45 Utah Kings Peak 13528 1353
46 Hawaii Mauna Kea 13796 1380
47 Wyoming Gannett Peak 13804 1380
48 Washington Mount Rainier 14410 1441
49 Colorado Mount Elbert 14433 1443
50 Alaska Mount McKinley 20320 2032