On Saturday, I completed the
Fight For Air Climb with the American Lung Association. It was fifty flights of steps at the Logan Center in Philadelphia, PA. We climbed to support research for lung cancer, emphysema and COPD, asthma, etc. Some of my extended family has exercise-induced asthma and I have issues with breathing during high allergy season (especially if my aunt Agnes gets us lost in the pollinated woods, do NOT forget that inhaler). The climb was a great way to raise awareness, raise money and also get my exercise in for the day. =)
Our team was sponsored by Barclays and included myself, uncles Shem and John and my aunt Marie.
I trained for the event at the YMCA for about 2 months. They have a stair climber that is like a miniature escalator so it was easy. When I first started, I could barely stand the stair climber for 5 minutes. That thing really is like torture! But since then I've come to love the torture and am up to climbing the Eiffel Tower (100 flights) in 30 minutes. I'm trying to interval train now to bring that time down.
For the Climb for Air our times were:
Marie: 13:22
Shem: 13:59
Christine: 15:36
John: 16:17
I don't know how well I'd have done if I didn't train; I'm still not in the best shape but keeping up with my triathlon running aunt is pretty good.
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| The view from the top |
After we huffed and puffed up the stairs we headed to this diner-restaurant called The Continental for breakfast and mimosas. Yum! It was the fanciest diner food I've ever had; can you say Brioche French Toast with Apple Compote?! YUM! Shem was so excited that he even did a pole dance on the way!
... and here is the delicious!
I know, I know. You're jealous. Maybe if you do the stair climb next year I'll take you out to breakfast too... and oh, uncle John? I owe you $20. Don't forget! It was definitely a great way to spend the morning even though I was up early on a Saturday. Maybe next year we'll be "century climbers" and do 100 flights of steps. Hahahahahaha!!!
yeah. right.
