144 days until the 2012 Leadville Trail 100 Mile Run....
Awaiting a couple of pics from my darling, technologically gifted daughter Katie....
Today Rick and I decided to run the stairs in the tower at Jumer's Lodge - the steps our friend Tom Waterman frequently scales. Tom usually does 33-34 sets of these for most of his workouts. We arrived around 5 a.m. and made our way to find the stairs and elevators. The first set of stairs we took was in the lower part of the Lodge, therefore once we hit the fourth floor we were out of stairs. We went looking around the hall and found another set of stairs that would take us up to the 9th floor (and also extended to the lower level). Just around the corner from the stairs was a conveniently located elevator. Remembering the advice from Tom, we took the elevator down to the lower level , pushed '9' as we exited the elevator, and ran up the stairs. Upon reaching the top, we turned the corner, pressed the elevator button and 'wallah..' it immediately opened - so much for rest time. Perhaps we shouldn't have been surprised the elevator was waiting for us nearly everytime - the hotel patrons did not seem to be interested in using the elevator at this time of the morning.
Each time we turned the corner to reach the elevator we passed a room service tray from the previous night which had a 1/2 of a piece of chocolate cake on the plate! While I love chocolate, it wasn't very tempting.
This workout was more exhausting that I thought it would. be. We did 20 trips up the stairs and back down the elevators. It was a continuous effort except we rested for a couple minutes after the 10th trip. The 9 stories each had 2 sets of stairs that were 8 steps high. Don't worry about calculating the math - it was 144 steps up each trip - nearly twice as many as the 76 steps up the football stadium bleachers. Rick and I both agreed that these steps seemed to be steeper than the bleacher seats.
Part of me wanted to equate this to the stair workouts we do at the stadium and I was thinking our 20 trips up the Jumer's Tower should have been equivalent to 40 sets of stairs at the stadium but for the reasons listed above, I believe it was more difficult.
After completing 20 sets of stairs, we drove over to the St. Ambrose weight room at Lee Lohman Arena and punched out 2 sets of 10 at 185 lbs on the bench press.
Tomorrow we are running stairs at 5:30 am at the Bettenorf High School football stadium - you are more than welcome to join us.
Until my next post, have a great day! DIG DEEP!
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| Jumer's Tower - on left - 9 stories high |
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| Jumer's Tower in the dark - you can't see it as well |
Today Rick and I decided to run the stairs in the tower at Jumer's Lodge - the steps our friend Tom Waterman frequently scales. Tom usually does 33-34 sets of these for most of his workouts. We arrived around 5 a.m. and made our way to find the stairs and elevators. The first set of stairs we took was in the lower part of the Lodge, therefore once we hit the fourth floor we were out of stairs. We went looking around the hall and found another set of stairs that would take us up to the 9th floor (and also extended to the lower level). Just around the corner from the stairs was a conveniently located elevator. Remembering the advice from Tom, we took the elevator down to the lower level , pushed '9' as we exited the elevator, and ran up the stairs. Upon reaching the top, we turned the corner, pressed the elevator button and 'wallah..' it immediately opened - so much for rest time. Perhaps we shouldn't have been surprised the elevator was waiting for us nearly everytime - the hotel patrons did not seem to be interested in using the elevator at this time of the morning.
Each time we turned the corner to reach the elevator we passed a room service tray from the previous night which had a 1/2 of a piece of chocolate cake on the plate! While I love chocolate, it wasn't very tempting.
This workout was more exhausting that I thought it would. be. We did 20 trips up the stairs and back down the elevators. It was a continuous effort except we rested for a couple minutes after the 10th trip. The 9 stories each had 2 sets of stairs that were 8 steps high. Don't worry about calculating the math - it was 144 steps up each trip - nearly twice as many as the 76 steps up the football stadium bleachers. Rick and I both agreed that these steps seemed to be steeper than the bleacher seats.
Part of me wanted to equate this to the stair workouts we do at the stadium and I was thinking our 20 trips up the Jumer's Tower should have been equivalent to 40 sets of stairs at the stadium but for the reasons listed above, I believe it was more difficult.
After completing 20 sets of stairs, we drove over to the St. Ambrose weight room at Lee Lohman Arena and punched out 2 sets of 10 at 185 lbs on the bench press.
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| St. Ambrose University weightroom |
Tomorrow we are running stairs at 5:30 am at the Bettenorf High School football stadium - you are more than welcome to join us.
Until my next post, have a great day! DIG DEEP!
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