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Trust me, 13 stairs feels like this.... endless!
Cor blimey! I haven't stopped today, and neither has Phil.
We're up at around nine, and with some breakfast inside of us (boiled eggs, and for once I managed to get them cooked right!) we've both got plenty to do. Phil's mission for today is to chop back the tree that we have in the front garden, and truth be known I think he actually likes swinging from branches as it's such an extreme opposite from what he has to do on a daily basis (though the phrase "Jump monkey jump" springs to mind...) anyway, so whilst he's doing that, I set about my exercise for the day.
My personal trainer has come up with "The Triple", whereby I walk 3 miles, cycle 3 miles and then do this fancy routine utilizing the 13 stairs that we have in the house. The idea of the stairs is that you go up one, go down one, go up two, go down two and so on until you reach the 13th step. Having got Phil to do the math, its the equivalent of running up about 91 steps, and then running back down them again without taking a break.
So I do the walk, with my IPOD nano, which shaves off about 30 minutes from my usual ramble down the road since I was walking to some dance music, I then do the stairs... oh lord did I do the stairs! Bugger me, if I had to run up 91 stairs because my life depended on it, I think I'd get them to just put me out of my misery, don me with some concrete boots and throw me into the river! It was such hard work I never imagined! Wow, so it definatly got my heart rate up, and then I did the 3 mile cycle ride, which by comparison was a walk in the park (or a cycle in the park for that matter!).
Back home, and quite frankly exhausted we get some lunch and after that we nip to the railway shop in Bourton on the Water to see if we can get Phil some more bits of track for his new found hobby. Alas, the shop was closed, so we settled on buying some cool rocks instead and then driving home.
What with the flurry of activity today I'm not fit to do anything this evening, so I settle on doing nothing instead, except gawping at the TV and impressing my ego with how well I've done on the exercise front.
Posted by Abi on the January 28, 2006 9:42 PM
Good luck you don't live in a lighthouse, you would do the series up to the 113th step :)