Originally Posted by
RetroDork
The only problem is I don't have any tall buildings near me. I might call the local FD and see if they know fo the tallest ones in our area.
I do have access to a high school football stadium with a lot of seps, so that's probably what I'll be using for my stair work.
I figure I day of 60 or so minutes of stair climbing - probably Monday.
Then intervals on some small rolling hills on Wednesday.
And some intervals on foot on a short, steep hill - forwards and backwards, followed by some hiking for a few hours and maybe more intervals after the hike on Friday.
If it were me, I'd do those 60 minutes stair climbing on more days than just Monday.
I'd probably go with something like 60 min stair climbing on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday ... then do the intervals and hiking on the weekend. Take Tuesday and Friday off to rest. You'd have to arrange the pattern to suit your schedule, but go with stair climbing 3 days a week, other stuff 2 days, and rest 2 days.
I know when I was climbing the stairs at work ... when I was doing it about once a week (plus lots of cycling and walking), I was really struggling to get up. But when I started doing it just about every day, it started to get easier.
And if you can get into a tall building on one stair climbing day, that would be good.
(So far today I've climbed 10 flights of stairs ... hoping for another 5 or 10 later. 
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