Last stab at 60 seconds

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration	start time	5 laps on the stairs (up and down)	Sprint 16 floors	Escalator	weather
28 Feb	≈ -5	Moscow, Russia	≈ 20:11	08:01		1:02.72	55.53  53.95	sunny

Words:  118

On my last effort to break the 60-second barrier, I failed.  The careful reader of this blog is not used to descriptions of failure falling from my fingertips; I try to find the happiest silver lining in every situation.  But, ho!  If this is my biggest failure of the nearest months, I’m fine.

Man in the stairway on newspaper

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration	start time	5 laps on the stairs (up and down)	Sprint 16 floors	Escalator	weather
26 Feb	≈ -7	Moscow, Russia	≈ 19:30	08:01		1:02.48	52.30	sunny

Words:  462

Well, I cut 23 one-hundredths of a second off the best time.  Still didn’t make the supreme goal of 60 seconds.  I climbed up and down slowly two times in preparation for my assault on the record.  Near the top, I again was paddling, searching for a handhold a couple times. 

6 laps

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration	start time	5 laps on the stairs (up and down)	Sprint 16 floors	Escalator	weather
22 Feb	≈ -4	Moscow, Russia	≈ 18:11	07:10			53.94 57.24	Overcast

Words:  168

The 5 stair laps today were a bit disappointing.  I climbed up and down three times, always considering whether I would take another stab at a sub-60 seconds escalation of the 16 flights.  The time came and I went ahead with it. 

butts on the 14th

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration	start time	5 laps on the stairs (up and down)	Sprint 16 floors	Escalator	weather
19 Feb	≈ 1	Moscow, Russia	≈ 19:48	09:00		1:02.71	55.01  55.51	Overcast

Words: 308

            Yes, I broke the record, but it wasn’t without great effort.  I ran/walked up and down twice before I made the assault on the record.  After I finished, my legs were screaming in pain.  I hobbled down the steps like a crippled sloth. I was giving my body time to heal itself.  The next lap took more than 4 minutes, by baseline.  I finished strong though, skipping steps all the way down, in order to finish the 5 laps in under 4-minutes per lap with 12 seconds to spare.

The grand high goal

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration	start time	5 laps on the stairs (up and down)	Sprint 16 floors	Escalator	weather
12 Feb	≈ 3	Moscow, Russia	≈ 18:39	22:10		1:09.58	52.96  54.11	Overcast

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration	start time	4 laps on the stairs (up and down)	Sprint 16 floors	Escalator	weather
15 Feb	≈ 0	Moscow, Russia	≈ 15	07:20			53.91	sunny

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration	start time	4 laps on the stairs (up and down)	Sprint 16 floors	Escalator	weather
17 Feb	≈ -1	Moscow, Russia	≈ 14.29.95	08:20		≈ 1:09	58.91  48.20	Overcast

I ran up this morning thinking I was putting all my effort into it.  Finished with less than stellar results.  I’m thinking that I actually WILL be able to reach my grand high goal of 60 seconds up the stairs, but I have less than a week before I move out.  We will see.

5 - 12 February, new record!

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration	start time	4 laps on the stairs (up and down)	Sprint 16 floors	Escalator	weather
5 Feb	≈ -5	Moscow, Russia	≈ 15	09:20		1:15.40	54.08	Overcast

I think I’m getting soft.  I should be running outside.

Feb 1 and 2...Super Bowl, new record

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration	start time	5 laps on the stairs (up and down)	Escalator	weather
1 Feb	≈ -13	Moscow, Russia	≈ 18:25.24	16:20		57.21  57.63	Partly cloudy

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration	start time	3 laps on the stairs (up and down)	Sprint 16 floors	Escalator	weather
3 Feb	≈ -11	Moscow, Russia	≈ 11:15.91	11:00		1:06.95	49.98	Sunny

Words:  202

I ran slowly up the stairs once, as a warmup. Then I sprinted up the second time. I achieved my quickest time on record. Even better than the post Dynamic Meditation glory day.