1,000 flights of stairs run in a day

[Kenryute]

Has anyone eclipsed this mark? I did it this Saturday, exhausting for sure. I will be 48 in a week and wanted to see if I could stay ahead of the game. Lol. Interested to hear others records out there. A few hundred short of 97000 lifetime flights. 

 

 

[Odyssey13]

Awesome @Kenryute  and nice touch adding the pictures for us to see. I moved your post to the Get Moving forum area so more people can see it.

Happy early Birthday to you! What's going to happen when you hit 90? Hmmm...

[Kenryute]

Thank you for the kind words! Let's see, at 90? Hopefully still be working
martial arts and staying ahead of the game. Lol

[Baltoscott]

Nicely done, @Kenryute -- I got over 1000 floors once over 5 years ago.  Full disclosure, most of it was on a bicycle.  100% powered by me, but I did have gears, so not quite a 'true' record. 

Nevertheless, it was a lot of work.  As you can see, I broke it up into 3 'chunks' over the day and it looks like I spend a similar amount of time to you in doing it.  

How did you get yours?  I've been known to knock out a few hundred floors a day going up and down the stairs in my building at work (7 floors) but I think to get a good number on foot it really helps to have a tall building to work with -- just so you don't have to waste so much time going back down the stairs to 'reset' and start count the up again.  :-).

Be interesting to see how many others have done something similar, and how they went about doing it.

May 31, 2014

[Kenryute]

I did it all on foot, running up then running down throughout the course of
the day. Quite boring really but I had a goal and just wanted to see if I
could do it. The last time I did 700, in just over 4 hours just because it
was the highest badge lol. A building would have been nice. Lol thank you
for your input, I really appreciate it.

[Kenryute]

Your post is most impressive for sure!  I try to do at least 100 flights per day like you. I do wish I had some kind of building like you have though! Lol

[Baltoscott]

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@Kenryute wrote:
I did it all on foot, running up then running down throughout the course of
the day. Quite boring really but I had a goal and just wanted to see if I
could do it. The last time I did 700, in just over 4 hours just because it
was the highest badge lol. A building would have been nice. Lol thank you
for your input, I really appreciate it.

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Yes, up and down is definitely boring! 

So I found this YouTube of a guy who ran the longest staircase in the world in Niesenlauf Switzerland.  1660 meters of elevation which would translate into about 545 floors.  So I guess in a way that you did that almost twice! The guy in the video did it in an hour and a half but the winner of the race did it in under an hour.  

I really do think it would be fun to do, but since it is only open for a race once a year and otherwise unavailable as it is next to an operating funicular, I doubt that will ever come about.  

[Kenryute]

Wow in under an hour. That's crazy. I think I would need to drop some
weight, I am 195 lbs so I'm toting some weight there. Does sound pretty
cool though. Super lactic acid build up in the calves for sure. Lol

[Heather-S]

@Kenryute Wow that's amazing!  

The most I ever did was 123 floors and that was during a half marathon in the city in April.  I was 2 floors shy of the 125 floor badge. 😞  Had I realized I was so close, I might have tried to get 2 more floors, but I was exhausted.

I live in a very flat area and my office building and my home both do not have stairs, so I very rarely get floors and when I do, it's usually not correct!  Once I was mowing my yard and my Charge 3 recorded 80 floors -- it's a very flat, but large yard!

[Kenryute]

Half marathon? You win! I've never run more than 10 miles and that sucked.
Great job though and thank you for the kind words.

[emili]

Sheesh- I can't compete with any of you except in the age department ;).. Happy Birthday to you. have an amazing day and an even better year. 

[Kenryute]

Thank you so much for the kind words my friend!