1/22/2024 0 Comments Climb salesforce tower![]() ![]() ![]() A flight ended, the handrail did a 180, and the next flight began.īut on the other half, the railing extended about a foot into the landing, requiring extra steps. Half the landings were pretty standard, and easy to navigate. There were longer flights, shorter flights, and a few landings where I had to jog four or five steps before then next flight began.Īfter clearing the lobby levels, the stairwell became wonderfully repetitive: 26 steps per floor, split between two 13-step flights, the whole rest of the way.īut the landings majorly tripped me up. There was no pattern or consistency in the number of flights or steps for the first five stories or so, which actually isn’t that uncommon in skyscrapers, because of vaulted lobbies and mezzanines. Oh, and there were handrails on both sides!īut this stairwell also had a couple tricks up its sleeve. And the stairs were narrow enough that I could use handrails on both sides. There was a couple things like I liked: every single turn, from start line to finish line, was a right turn. One of the most exciting things about racing in a building for the first time is that I get to experience the stairwell on the fly, as I race. I positioned myself near the back, behind my friend Madeleine, and when I was given the go-ahead, I started up the stairs. There were only about nine of us in the competitive wave, and we waited in a completely white interior hallway until the race began. I know I’m not a contender for a podium finish, but I like competitive waves because I like being around like-minded athletes who take these races seriously and are there to do their very best, and having an emptier stairwell, before it gets hot, crowded, and muggy, with dust flying everywhere, is a huge help. The event was very well organized and executed, and I had contacted the foundation ahead of time to get placed in the elite (competitive) wave, to be one of the first people to enter the building at 8:30am. That’s my sister-in-law Alexis, a stair race veteran herself, who came along with me. I got good ol’ lucky number #128 on my bib. (I suspect that step count is inaccurate, but I’ll get into that later.) As I arrived, I just focused on getting my bib and timing chip, loosening up my muscles, and doing some stretching. They promoted the race as having 1,762 steps, as you climb 61 stories. After racing up two other prominent San Francisco skyscrapers ( 555 California and 101 California), I was finally going to race up the newly-opened tallest building in the skyline. The race was Runyon Up, a stair race fundraiser benefiting the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. And the Salesforce Tower was the tallest building in town, by over 200 feet! It’s also the 2nd tallest building in the west and the 9th tallest in the whole country. I’m always excited by a stair race, but I take particular pleasure in races held in record-breaking structures. I took a breath and realized that s oon I’ll be climbing to the top of a skyscraper that I can’t fully see! When I arrived at the brand new Salesforce Tower in San Francisco yesterday, the top was still shrouded in fog. ![]()
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