The Stairs

So today I attempted the stairs. 

We live in Ontario, Canada, where there is an escarpment. I live at the top of said escarpment. There are many sections along the escarpment in which there are stairs to go down the mountain.

Today I attempted to do this. I went with my husband and a couple we know. Both the men are extremely fit. The other girl weighs about 3 pounds. I weigh a million.  I did not expect to be able to do this more than once. 

My hubby said they were doing it 5 times. 

There are 289 stairs.

OH Crap.

I told my husband that this is exactly why I don't want to go out and do exercis-y things with him.  I cant keep up yet!  And I am a winner. I HAVE to do well and I usually have to win. Now I knew I couldn't win this one, but I at least hoped they would do it so few times that I could keep up!

I refused to do it 5 times.  Luckily so did my friend, Kim. Needless to say, her frame and weight gave her an advantage of not tiring out as fast as I. So after one trip down and half a trip up, I told her to go on without me.

Yes.. I thought I was dying.

I slowly made it back up. Long story short, the men lapped both us girls numerous times.

I can proudly say though that I did the stairs not once, but ONE AND A HALF times!  LOL!!!

Thinking I should make this a weekly thing (despite the fact that I HATE the cold weather - anything under 18 degrees is too cold for me) and maybe build up to more times a week when the weather gets warmer! 

Thoughts?

Thanks for supporting!

Caren