> > Well done! It's not easy a marathon. Well, that's what they tell me anyway.
> >
> One of my students' father runs marathons as a hobby. He actually travels all over Australia to do it. The biggest I'd ever done was a 5km fun run (don't understand why they call it that) and that was many years ago.
>
> The thing I can't understand is why anyone would want to do those stair climbs, now they're crazy!
>
> ding"puffed just thinking about it"dong

Yeah! I agree. They have an annual stair climb race up the Sky Tower here in Auckland. Our Prime Minister even did it last year. Normally you have to go up in the lift; there isn't public access to the emergency stairs. If there was, I'd like to go all the way up the stairs some time just to see how long it takes. But doing it fast, in a RACE? Crazy.

Brunnen-"climbing things=fun, climbing things fast=pain"G