{"id":3267,"date":"2013-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/fitness-who-races-up-the-empire-state-building-i-did\/"},"modified":"2013-02-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T00:00:00","slug":"fitness-who-races-up-the-empire-state-building-i-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/fitness-who-races-up-the-empire-state-building-i-did\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Races Up the Empire State Building? I Did!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who willingly runs up the Empire State Building? Me, that’s who. It’s quite ironic considering I have an aversion to stairs. Seriously, if there is an elevator, I’m taking it. I even take the elevator to my second floor apartment. (Stop judging!)<\/p>\n
But I love a challenge…and running up 86 flights seemed liked a pretty big one.<\/p>\n
So I agreed to run the Empire State Building Run-Up Powered by the MMRF<\/a>. My training schedule was simple: find stairs and run up them.<\/p>\n Work travel and life, though, got in the way, and I didn’t train as hard or as long as I wanted or needed. I did get a couple of stairwell sessions in at my friend’s 42-floor building, though. (Thanks Beck!)<\/p>\n After running Beck’s stairs a few times, I was sure that I could get through the first half of the Empire State Building with little problem. To my surprise, there was no “easy” part. The first seven or eight flights, which I ran at a steady pace, were a wake-up call. My legs began stinging instantly. Partly, I think, because the flights were steeper and had more stairs per flight than the ones I trained on.<\/p>\n So I had to switch gears, literally. I slowed my pace WAY<\/em> down. By the 50th floor my butt was on fire and my legs felt like Jell-O. My chest burned, making it hard to breathe. Surprisingly, I was also very nauseous, which I now attribute to the persistent cough that worsened with each flight. Still, I kept on climbing.<\/p>\n When I reached the 80th floor, I felt a surge of energy, so I quickened my pace. Upon ascending that final torturous flight, I hurled my body through the door to the observation deck; a rush of cold air stung my sweaty body. I had made it! (Well sort of, I still had to run a lap around the deck before I was “officially” done, but that’s just semantics.) And honestly it was an amazing (and exhausting) experience!<\/p>\n The funny thing: The race is only a quarter of a mile. It was, however, the longest and most challenging quarter-mile of my life. Looking back, I don’t think anything could have really prepared me for this run. Running coach Jonathan Cane<\/a>, disagrees. He said I needed better conditioning coupled with specific stair work and techniques. I guess that means I’ll be signing up again next year!<\/p>\n Check out this race footage<\/a> from Kelly Ripa who also conquered the Empire State Building— and if you look closely you’ll see me (in the pink shirt!) running behind her at the start!<\/p>\n Read more:<\/p>\n Getty Images Who willingly runs up the Empire State Building? Me, that’s who. It’s quite ironic considering I have an aversion to stairs. Seriously, if there is an elevator, I’m taking it. I even take the elevator to my second floor apartment. (Stop judging!) But I love a challenge…and running up 86 flights seemed liked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n