Getting close to the end
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It’s Monday, and there are only three more practice climbs before the big race next Friday. So here we go again.
I headed downtown as usual, got changed, and I was ready to go. The plan was to push the pace on the first time up, and then just walk up a few more times just because.
I was aiming for 6 floors per minute the first time, but I was falling behind by a couple of steps each minute. And psychologically, that’s a bad place to be. It’s hard to hold off the ‘What the HELL am I trying to prove here?!?’ blues at times like that. Still, I managed to sort of hold it together long enough to make it to the top, coming out at 9:06.
The second time, I wanted to see if I could manage 4 3/4 floors per minute, which would get me to the top in about 10:50 or so. It was hard, but I managed to make it up in 10:56. Getting the second time in under 11 after trying for speed the first time is still pretty hard for me.
I went up a third time, just for sheer perversity. It was kind of a Death March, and I didn’t bother timing it. But I made it up.
I could probably have gone up one more time, but I just didn’t feel up to it, since the third time was so hard. So I went home.
