Step Up For Kids

This morning, Brad and I, along with our good friends Karen and Chris Sabados, climbed all 80 floors (that's 1643 steps) of the Aon Center in downtown Chicago. This is the second tallest building downtown and I don't think we had a full appreciation for just how tall it was until we got to the top and looked out the windows! We participated in the Step Up for Kids fundraiser to benefit the Chicago Children's Memorial Hospital. They have several of these stair races in the skyscrapers of Chicago (and other cities I think) to benefit various charities. We were assigned a start time and waited in line for our turn to race up the stairs. There were a few water stations along the way up and volunteers cheering us along. We honestly didn't know what to expect but the stairwell was not crowded and it went by pretty quickly. We look forward to doing more races like this as we really had a great time! I think the fastest person completed the race in 9:54, which is unfathomable to us. It took Brad and I 21:13 and 23:23 respectively and honestly we were just thrilled to make it to the top :)