2,160 and other numbers..

Did you know that there are 2,160 individual steps in climbing 120 flights of stairs at my private gym?

Did you know that it takes 40 min. to climb 120 flights of stairs if you go at a steady and deliberate pace?

Of course not because nobody climbs 2,160 stairs consecutively but that is what I was doing last Sat. It all started innocently enough talking with my pal Shaun....but athlete trainer/types have a way turning things that start off innocently enough into something that is all trainer-ish and athlete-ified. Thanks Pal. ;)

So that is how my routine I had evolved to approx 800 steps that I was going to add about 100 steps to over the course of the next few weeks getting up to about 1,200 as my regular work out turned into in instant challenge to jump from sub 900 to over 2,000 damn near instantly... Like this old football thing right, "get out there and give 110%"

The best part of this exercise had less to do with doing it (the physical) and prepping for it as the plan was to go "as if"...as if it was a 14er to include pre-nutrition, the mental game, etc.. I sort of had no doubt that I was going to be able to do it I just wasn't sure how hard it would be and I wound up going into it with something like a siege mentality. OK, it's only some concrete stairs I know but now I think it's very VERY effective to take a task like this and attack it rather than just doing it. I could have done the exact same workout without the added pieces of the puzzle and it would not have been as effective....at least I would not have gotten as much out of it.

Cool stuff.