Feb 2nd 2010 Empire State Building Run Up

I would recommend this event to everyone. You will never look at a tall syscraper the same way again...lol. It was much harder than you could imagine to climb 86 floor and almost 1,600 stairs. I had no expectation of time since i really had no idea what to expect.

At the start of the race i immediately start to run up the stairs at a pace that i thought i could sustain. I was passing a lot of people and i should of known right away i was pacing myself to fast because i know i'm not a strong runner. I hit floor 10 and i felt my heart was going to jump out of my body. If i had my heart rate monitor it would of read 105%. I didn't want to stop and wanted to maintain some sort of fast walk up but even that proved to be extremely difficult. It was a painful event to finish in 19.09 minutes. I'm glad i did it and i would love the opportunity to torture myself again next year but I will train for it and will pace myself more appropriately.

Thanks for reading
Rico