Stairs

[PamNY]

I use the stairs in my building for exercise, especially in winter. With music or satellite radio, it's not too boring. Plus I get to see the garbage rooms on every floor; fascinating to see what people throw away.

[Owlie]

The stairs are the least busy part of the mall.

[jyyanks]

Do you believe we don't have stairs in our building! We do but we can only use them if there is a fire alarm, otherwise they are locked and if you attempt to open the stairwell, the fire alarm will go off (common in NYC office buildings).

It feels so silly when I'm on the 19th floor and want to go down to 18, and have to get on a crowded elevator to go down one floor. Everyone who works in the building knows but every now and then we get an occasional guest who looks at me funny when I go down 1 floor but it's not my fault!

[five one]

I've been doing intervals on the Communications Hill stairs in San Jose after work for a few weeks. (I have no idea who the guys in the video are. Google found them.)

I'm up to four intervals - trotting down from the top and walking up. It creates a very different feeling fatigue than cycling hill repeats. My quads are definitely feeling it, as are my lungs.

[tzvia]

The stairs are actually broken in our building at work. It's only a two story building, but you would be surprised at how many people huff and puff... I'll be bounding up the stairs while talking to someone, and realize that they can't walk up a flight and talk at the same time, and I have to slow down to stay with them. Otis is putting in a new elevator, what a waste for a two story building. No wonder the U.S. is obese. I go up and down the stairs several times during lunch and whenever I am near them even if I don't need to go downstairs.

Not enough stairs. So I bought a Nordic Track elliptical two weeks ago and it was delivered and setup last Friday in my new 'exercise room' (really an enclosed deck). Also room for my bike on the trainer, my Wii, and I hooked up a DVD player for exercise videos. I thought I was in half-way good shape, but that Nordic Track is kicking my butt.

[smittykitty]

I'm climbing the Columbia Tower in Seattle in late March, a lymphoma fundraiser. It's 69 floors, tallest building in the city!!!! I've been practicing at our local hospitals, doing lots of climbing repeats. Hoping it will make me a stronger hill climber on the bike this year.

[skhill]

I usually take the stairs up, but elevator down, if it's more than 4 stories or so. Stairs down do not always agree with my knees... Our downtown library did something really stupid when they built the place: there were no public stairs originally, even though it's only 5 stories tall. They bowed to public pressure, and changed an emergency staircase to public. It's just cool that there was sufficient demand that they responded!

This next Saturday is a new race in town-- up the stairs of our tallest building. 29 stories, racing against the clock. If the entry fee wasn't so steep, I'd almost cetainly do it. Still might, anyway...