Climb the Clinic 2013
AdminReported by Mario Minelli
TriRochester members started the year off with a bit of stair-climbing. The annual Climb the Clinic race was held on January 19, 2013. This was the 3rd Annual Climb The Clinic—a timed stair climbing race up 4 of Mayo’s tallest buildings in Rochester: Mayo, Siebens, Plummer, and Stabile. Each building was separately timed using timing mats set up on tables just outside of the starting floor and upon exiting the stairwell on the finishing floor. Think mouse pads rather than the mats you’re used to running over in a standard running race or tri. We wore the timing chips on our wrists and just swiped over the pad and took off.
What was nice is that we were able to run the buildings in any order we chose and could take as much or as little time as we wanted going from building to building—the time in between did not count towards your overall time. Running them in any order and taking as much time in between makes it sound easy, but depending on how you approach it, that could add more strategizing (and pain) even if you’re there to just get some exercise and not necessarily race it. Either way, you have to do 60+ floors so deciding how you do them can make a difference. A little rest in between is good, but too much and you might start to stiffen up, lose the adrenaline rush and have to work it up again, or just lose incentive to go to the next building.
Joe and Ann Moyer and I went from building to building together—taking the elevators to the bottom, then wandering over to the next building to feel the burn all over again. To keep it simple we did the buildings in the same order I did them in last year: Stabile (14 floors), Mayo (20), Plummer (14), Siebens (15). I think we all agreed that running stairs is about as painful as it gets with regards to racing—at this time of year. Overall they had a pretty good turn-out, things went pretty smooth, and they even had results up by the end of the day. I was told they had about 125 pre-registered participants with over 150 altogether. The event was organized by the Mayo Fellows Association and was a fund-raiser for Team Winter.
Ann Moyer was the 2nd overall female, but 1st female resident.
Mario Minelli was the 2nd male overall.
Other TriRochester members are listed below.
10. Joe Moyer
28. Shaun Palmer
55. Sonja Kranz
80. Bruce Costigan
Split times (per building), and overall results are posted here:
http://mtecresults.com/race/show/1279/2013_Climb_the_Clinic-Individual_Overall