A week after a back spasm By Saturday my back was just achy, a bit worse than before the a Wedge but not too bad, so I did my stair climbing challenge. The Great Yorkshire Stair Climb was in Leeds in the highest building in Yorkshire, Bridgewater Place, 522 steps over 32 floors.
I didn't know what to expect, I'd never done anything like it before. I registerered and received a wristband and a security tag before having a dibber put on my finger. After gathering with the other runners in the 10 am wave for the briefing, we gathered in the stair well where we set off with gaps. You put your dibber in the machine and set off up the 8 stairs, turned and 8 more, again and again, at floor 10 I left the stairwell to enter another stairwell and ran upwards again. The steps were quite close, I chose to do every step, not two at a time, as that might strain my back. I got to the top and put my dibber in the machine. I then went back down 2 floors to the lifts where I had my finish picture, then I ran walked back down the stairs as I'm not keen on lifts and didn't fancy 30 floors in a lift. I did fancy doing if again though, my back had held out, but hubby was sat waiting in reception so I decided not to. At the registration area I got my time 6 minutes and 9 seconds. That was way better than my hoped for sub 10 minutes.
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