Preparing to climb Africa's highest mountain means persistent training and unflinching motivation. I don't know about you but, for me, maintaining motivation isn't easy. That's why I've launched a challenge for Team Kili-2012.
How did I get the idea? Last autumn, at the office, several members of the team took part in the SCD stair-climbing challenge - climbing 600 stories in teams of 4 in 10 days. We took up the challenge enthusiastically. One Kili team even managed 4000 stories!
We all thought it would be a good idea to carry on with the activity afterwards and we found that it was relatively easy to climb 20 to 30 stories a day. So I got to calculating. With the number of weeks' training left before leaving for Kilimanjaro, and counting about 30 stories a day, now many stories could we climb in that time? The answer was 4000 stories per person!
That's all it took to put the challenge to my fellow team members. After all, stair-climbing is one of the best exercises available before mountain-climbing. And as Team Kili-2012 is always ready to do things differently and take on new challenges, 10 members answered the call. So 11 of us will be counting our steps and accumulating stories until August 31st. The objective: 4000 stories per person between February 6 and August 31 2012.
For the sake of the challenge, everything counts - stairs at home, at work, in the Metro, on Mont-Royal. Every 20 steps count for a story. If you work it out, by taking the stairs all the time, it's easy to do 15 - 30 stories a day!
We started on Monday and, already, we've found all sorts of ways to make it add up. Thanks to everyone who's signed on to this crazy project. Another step on the way to the summit!
Translated by Pamela Gauvin
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