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.

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
7 Feb	≈ -8	Moscow, Russia	≈ 19:14	10:59			54.57	Sunny

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
9 Feb	≈ 0	Moscow, Russia	≈ 18:41.61	07:55		1:15.09	54.87	Overcast

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
10 Feb	≈ 1	Moscow, Russia	≈ 18:42	08:10		1:08.39	56.72   55.89	Overcast

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
11 Feb	≈ -5	Moscow, Russia	≈ 28	8:10		1:04.54	52.96	Overcast

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I am exercising most everyday because I do not have morning classes any day except Thursday. So I wanted to take a bit of a break today. Then, after four stair laps, I decided I would finish with a sprint up the stairs. I ACHIEVED A NEW RECORD!!!  Some weeks ago, I set my goal at 1 minute for the run up the stairs.  I thought that was terribly outlandish.  That I would never make it.  Today I made it in 1:04.54!!! So maybe 60 seconds is possible.  I really understand the value in warning up—at least for sprinters. I still feel that warming up before a marathon might be a bit silly. All the energy in one's body will soon be expended. Guys like me are running so slowly that I can easily just warmup during the race.

I began today WALKING up and down the stairs. I was stopping every now and then because I was working on memorizing my lines. I'm in a play...a dramatic production of The Rivals. So I would listen to the lines, here the line before, and speak the next one. When I came the part when my character, Sir Anthony Absolute is becoming unhinged as his son expresses objections to SA's choice of marriage partner, I figured out how to edit the recording so I could concentrate on that one scene.

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

As you can see above, the temperature is above freezing.  I’m still running up and down the stairs because outside is terribly messy—as it would be anywhere in the spring.  Well, it’s not supposed to be spring yet.  Hmmmm.