15 seconds off the Univ steps

Date	Place of exercise	Duration (min)	Classic sprint	Steps at University	Start time
13 Sep	Run thru park		50.77; bike—49.88	1:09	11:30

I need to say something about this run.  Oskar and I were biking around town doing some errands.  We fixed my bike after I ran into the back of a car on Friday (It was a student driver—they are everywhere—and he stopped suddenly, as student drivers will do, but I was in fact, driving too close), we bought a new frying pan so I could make decent pancakes,

and we bought some electrical items.  On the way home, we rode passed the university where last spring, I had done some sprints up and down the steps.  I did a short run to warm up and then attempted the sprint. My record last spring was over 1:25 (one minute, 25 seconds).  THIS time, I broke the 1:10 mark.  Wow!  I think it may have been because I was skipping some steps.  I think last spring I was purposefully hitting each one—I was pumping the legs up and down rapidly, rapidly on each step.

We rode up to a restaurant on the edge of the park. Last week, I had walked up the hill only to find that the gate in the fence was padlocked shut.  I suggested that we take the long way, through the park, and avoid the locked gate.  Oskar wasn’t having any of this. 

“We can just try!” Oskar maintained his insistence that we should check to see if the gate is locked because it would save us some 15 minutes—and he was tired of fiddling around.

“But if it’s locked, then we not only have to walk the extra 15 minutes, but we have to walk up and down this hill.”

He was right. Soon after threading our way through the fence, we were at the position of the classic sprint.  I tried it on the bike to see what my time might be. I rode as quickly as possible up the hill, but it wasn’t very quick because of the potholes and uneven surface.  I made it in 49.88.  Then I walked back down the hill, I got Oskar to follow me.  I showed him where I begin the classic sprint, and he rode his bike.  I made it in 50.77—less than a minute slower than on the bike.