Today Bonnie and I did the Lehigh stair climb. Basically you start at the bottom of the hill on fourth street and work your way up to the top.Today we went from my house, out Itaska and down Broadway and Fourth. Then we walked up New street, through the stairs in Campus Square, and up to Packer chapel. Then it was left to Zoellner and up the old stadium stairs, then continued going up by Taylor Gym and down at Grace Hall and then back up. Not really sure where we went after that. The set that Bonnie is climbing in the picture is a total of about 300. It runs next to some residence halls and then up to a fraternity. The fraternity set alone is about 100. Can't imagine doing them drunk.
We got to the top of the hill and we had done about 64 flights. My goal was 75, so we came down and went back up a few more. We forgot to actually count the stair steps today because we were busy chatting. Usually it's about 1000.
No pictures today from the top. the trees still have too many leaves. Soon, though.
It was harder than normal. I am not in the best shape. I've been walking less and sitting on my butt all day. It takes a toll on the over all health. Gaining 20 pounds probably didn't help either.
In total we covered about 4.5 miles in about 2.5 hours. Which is an awful amount of time. But it was uphill and aerobic all the way. I'm okay with a 30 minute mile on stairs. And it beats the hell out of a stair master.
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