15!

It is easier to do running and stadiums in the same weekend (easier than to run twice, that is), they're different muscle groups.  Anyhow, today I went to yoga and climbing at Brooklyn Boulders.  After I was trying to decide if I should go to Harvard Stadium; I was a little tired, but there's a Nor'Easter coming, and there's no way I'm dedicated enough to "run" steps in that weather.  So, I decided to haul my butt over there.

It was freezing out!  Happily I remembered I had seen my running gloves, the ones with the special fabric for wiping the snot off my nose, in the trunk of my car.  Which was a good thing because my nose was running and, I'm not gonna lie, I used the special snot fabric.  I went back to section 1 this time, with the goal of getting in 15.  Around section 4 I was nervous that I wasn't going to get to even section 8.  But I kept with it.  At section 7 I was thinking I might be done at 8, which I could live with since I had done yoga and climbing, but I pushed it a little further.

Then I was watching someone else, and I started to think about their technique, and mine.  I was doing the steps as if I was going up steps, but they aren't normal steps, they're like 2 feet high and 2 feet deep, which requires not normal walking.  So, I modified what I was doing to be a little more like in yoga, when you go from down dog, lift your knee up, and only after your knee is up swing your foot forward to lunge. It's a lot more core and gluts, instead of just thigh.  Turns out that makes a HUGE difference!  With that modification I was able to get up the first 20 or so steps of each row without too much difficulty, leaving the last 11 steps of each row for me to drag my sorry body up in declining form.  Way better.  And, I bet way better overall exercise.  At 13 I was thinking I could stop at 1/3 of the way up the next row, and just have it be the same as last time.  But then of course I couldn't do that, I was like, "I can finish this row!"  And once I had finished, I figured it was just 62 steps to my goal, and I wasn't seeing spots or anything, so I might as well do it.  And I did!

Goal for next time = 16 (double the first time.)