American Lung Association: 1197 steps, 52 flights, how many hours do I have?
March 17, 2007
BoyDucky called at lunchtime today to invite me to join him at a climbing fundraiser for the American Lung Association. We’re climbing to the top of 555 California in San Francisco: a whopping 52 flights of stairs!! I don’t know why 1200 steps sounded perfectly fine over the phone but, uh, that’s a LOT OF STAIRS. Still, it’s kind of exciting. This is all new to me: the fundraising, the pre-training, the whole bit. There’s definitely gotta be some training involved because crapping out on the tenth flight would be incredibly embarrassing.
Climbers are encouraged to create a website where their sponsors can donate money as well, and I considered making that available to my blog readers. If anyone’s interested, email me at (myname)@yahoo.com and I’ll make that information available to you!
Participants are raising funds for:
American Lung Association research, education and advocacy programs in the areas of:
- Asthma
- Clean Air and Climate Change
- Tobacco Control and Secondhand Smoke
- Emphysema and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Lung Cancer
- Tuberculosis
It is a lot. There are 300 steps here from downtown (where I live) up to the University where I work on the hill. I try to avoid the steps and walk on smoothly sloping road sections. I’ve also climbed a lot of steps on the island of Capri. I think there were 800 there.
~Moom~ Oy. This will be an adventure!