PLEDGING FLIGHTS *** A Stair Climb Challenge

[jimmie 48]

PLEDGING FLIGHTS ....... a stair-climb challenge

Maybe you can’t do sit ups. Perhaps crunches are out of the question. Do you have trouble finding a challenge that you felt you could keep up with?

Got Steps?

In this challenge, you will step your way to a healthy you.. You will work as an individual, working at your own pace and ability. You will have availability a 3 page booklet that will help you keep track of steps. Follow the simple instructions and stair climb your way to the top of Slieve Donard, in Northern Ireland or to the top of the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada!

Yes! Stairmaster machines and step stools count! Keep track of your totals and climb!

Some helpful hints and how this works:

1. Instead of taking the elevator or the escalator, take the stairs.

2. When climbing stairs at the house, devise a reward system. For example, pick up a quarter at the bottom of the stairs and deposit it at the top. Work towards “earning” enough for a new pair of trousers or that slimming black dress.

3. Make this a challenge! If you already take the steps 5 times a day, shoot for 7 or 8. If you put things at the bottom of your stairs to carry all at once, try taking the load in segments.

4. Try running or hastening up the stairs instead of just walking. Get the heart pumping! Step tall and try not to slouch. Make your legs do the work.

5. Instead of telling the children to bring you something from upstairs, do it and count it for yourself. Get the kids in on the action! Let them climb to the top of Mt. Everest!

6. Don’t compare yourself with anyone else. Work at your level, but remember to make it a challenge.

7. Use the provided worksheet to count those steps. Count only the steps going up! Slide down the banister, if you wish or dare, but count only the upward motion.

8. Do check in and report your progress! Share your goals with the other members that will continue to join this challenge. Make sure to tell us all when you finish a climb!

9. When you have completed one mountain or one building, challenge yourself to go to the next. Challenge yourself to climb every mountain and scale every building listed! Begin each climb with zero. For example: You need 107 flights to complete the climb to the top of Canary Wharf Towers. When you complete that climb and start the next, start your counting at 0, not 108. You can, however, carry over any flights to the next climb. For example: If you needed 33 flights to finish Mount Blanc and you did 53, you can count Mount Blanc as finished and carry over 20 flights to your next climb.

10. If you are participating in the ADBB Presidential Challenge, you can log your stair challege by choosing walking from the activity list. Scroll to 'stairs' under the description.

11. After you have completed ALL of the buildings in a set, you will recieve the graphic award for climbing the virtual buildings. The same holds true for finishing ALL of the virtual mountains, Challengers Choice option and the Towers ~Masts~ Chimney virtual climbs.

12. Most important of all, have fun with this!

Here's a graphic for you to display to show your participation
in this challenge.

CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR STAIR CLILMBING WORKSHEET

Find more Virual Buildings here

Find Towers, Masts and Chimneys here

CHALLENGERS CHOICE OPTION

Pledging Flights Challengers will stairstep a total of 3 virtual climbs. Each climb should be no less than 3,000 ft in height. Mountains, Buildings, Towers, Masts and Chimneys that are already a part of other virtual climbs are not available for this option. For example, Mt. Everest, CN Tower and Taipei 101 are included in other sets of Virtual Climbs and will not be available for this option. Stomboli, a volcano in Italy, is not on any list and can be used for the Challengers Choice Option.

Calculating feet to flights:
feet x 2 = steps
divide the number of steps by 15 = flights

This calculation is as close as possible (without being a pain to figure) to the original calculatons set by the British Heart Association.

[jimmie 48]

i will begin my climb up the beautiful Slieve Donard, Northern Ireland.
5,390 steps/360 flights


2,707 feet

[sadie147]

Count me in Jimmie!

I'm going to climb Mt Kilimanjaro 36,680 steps, 2,578 flights! I use a stair master and i average about 60 flights in 15 mins so i'm hoping it should be doable. I will double check how many steps are in a flight on the machine tomorrow..the guide averages it to about 15.

[jimmie 48]

way to go sadie! i will climb that baby one day but i plan on doing all of them....if my knees hold out!
i brought a big laundry basket of clothes up the stairs last night and jack said "that should count for 2 pennies since it's like carrying a backpack."

[staziaw]

I want to do all of them, starting with the shortest, the Millenium Dome in London, at 320 steps, or 21 flights, and work my way up to Mount Everest! There is a staircase at the end of my lunch time walks that goes from the top of the cliff down to the road that leads to the ocean. I have no idea how many steps that is, but I will find out today! (unless it starts raining, which it might do)

This should be very interesting. I've climbed to the top of Notre Dame in Paris and the Vatican in Rome, for real, so I should be able to do these virtual challenges!

Jimmie - can we post our progress here? Or is this for us to do on our own? Either way - cool challenge!

Stacy

[jimmie 48]

very good stacy! that sounds like a long flight of steps and it's outdoors! very cool!

i say we just post here whenever we want with updates. i am posting things in my journal but when i have completed a mountain, i plan on telling it here and the stating what i will be doing next. i don't think starting a new thread for each mountain/building would work too good. we would have umpteen threads and nobody would know where to go or post. here is good till something better comes along.

cool beans that you did the for real climb!

[2big4mysize]

woo hoo for all you climbers. I will have to be content to be a climbing voyer watching y'all do it cuase these knees don't do stairs.

[sallyseachange]

I'm in too Jimmie! Just need to decide where to start. Do we climb to a time goal... or is it just, climb and conquer in your own time?

[jimmie 48]

good to have you join up, sal!

i think if you look at the sheet and figure your steps, flights per day and then the goal, it wants you to shoot for that time frame.
like for me, calculating the flights for slieve donard it should take me between 3 and 4 weeks. some days i get in more flights than others but the goal for me is to finish climb in the 3 to 4 week time frame.

sadiejens climb will take longer but her flights should work out to a certain number of weeks and she should try to reach the top by that time.

does that make sense to you? that is what the calculations are for. you will know how long it's suppose to take using those figures.

unless of course, your backpack gets too heavy and you roll down the hill or you have to take cover from an avalanche. watch out for mountain lions! lol

[sallyseachange]

Ok then... to business!

I'm gonna start slow, to see how I get on. Also being a Brit, I've just gotta start with this one: Big Ben. Will set a week as the challenge and hope to reach those hands sooner. When I get there, I'll sit on the minute hand and take an hour long whirl around the clock! Fun!

Oh... and Jimmie... at least I don't have to worry about mountain lions on Big Ben!

After Ben, I'll move to something more challenging.

Boy this is one cool challenge. I love it! Thanks Jimmie for the help.

Sal