Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Crazy Pole

Mistake number 1. Eat a huge meal before meeting with Tomasz to train. Mistake number 2. Have a lot of wine before meeting with Tomasz to train. Mistake number 3. Meeting with a crazy Pole to train.

Tomasz had told me he sometimes ran up and down the stairs in our building to train, so tonight I decided to join him. Of course, I also convinced him to up the ante.

First we did 2 sets of 20 plank walk-ups + 20 one-foot push-ups.

Then we started in the stairs. We would jog at a light pace up, one stair at a time (no skipping). On the way down we would go at a similar speed. We went up and down between floors 25 and 30. We did it 5 times. Then I convinced him to go all out. We went all the way to the ground floor, and climbed back up to the 30th floor. That's a total of 55 flights of stairs in both direction.

When I got home, I passed out for about 15 minutes feeling like dinner was about to come out, but after about 30 minutes I felt better. Following Evangeline's advice I then had strawberries with ready-whip and felt ready to go again.

Definitely worth trying again.

4 comments:

  1. You know, back in college we had a name for running stairs... "punishment"

    Admittedly, a good workout.

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  2. That sounds just about right.

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  3. I see you are training to retrieve ice axes.

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