> > Well done! It's not easy a marathon. Well, that's what they tell me anyway.
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> 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.
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> The thing I can't understand is why anyone would want to do those stair climbs, now they're crazy!
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> ding"puffed just thinking about it"dong

I remember, very fondly, the day we did stairs for cross country practise. We went up to the college track, and ran up one set, and down the other, up the next, and down the next and so on and so on. There was 8 flights of stairs on either side of the track...and we did 8 times around the track. That's 32 times up, and 32 times down (corrections welcome, I just did some random multiplying, too tired to *actually* think about it...). It was very painful, but worth it. During the season, the team was very good at hills...because of all the stairs and hills we were forced to do.
Tess