How many flights of stairs can you nip up before feeling like you might die?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

I optimistically tried to run up 5 flights of stairs today (20 steps per flight) but got slower and slower and by the top my thigh muscles were like cooked spaghetti and could hardly propel me up the last few.

I assume if I keep doing it, I'll get tougher.

How many steps can you ascend at speed?

We have 2 sets at either end of our house and by the end of a day at home I feel like I have done 2k!!
Poor ds 3 has huge calf muscles!!

1. I know because that's how many we have in our house and if I run up them I have a moment of nausea at the top!

We have 5 flights of stairs to the work car park and I've done this for 10 years. Every single time I feel like I'm going to collapse. Why has it not got any easier in 10 years?!

On a recent holiday I discovered that I can walk up 6 flights of stairs without wanting to die
Unfortunately the apartment we rented was up 8!

Christ april your mansion sounds like a pain

I don't 'nip' up any steps anymore.. the only 'nipping' I do is to the kitchen to try and make a cup of tea in the two minutes my ds will stay asleep once he's been put down..

Haha! 0-1 flight of stairs is the best I have in me. 2 leaves me wheezing like a beast. 3 and I'd need a defib.

After a fire drill at work I once ran up to the 6th floor without even noticing. However, I had just come back from La Paz and had spent over a week at high altitudes.
These days I can certainly walk up 8 floors with no problem, but I'm not so sure about the 'nipping' bit......

I regularly race up the tallest tube escalators on the London underground without missing a beat. 100 steps is not a problem. I reckon I should be able to do the same up a fair few slights of stairs. Will have to try when I get into work.

No mansion, it was a school - with the house next door. When we moved in ds was crawling, had to be carried everywhere and gated in certain rooms as can't gate off all the stairs due to shape - was a nightmare.
Can't wait for a bungalow!!

Right now two.

Shameful but... Very quickly, if I deliberately start to run up them and watch diet I get fit v quickly

I once did nearly pass out after walking the steps at Covent Garden tube station

Probably 2 or 3 would be more than enough for me

walking up (almost) indefinitly. after a while my legs would burn but I would not be out of breath.
jog up the stairs I can do about 3 stories.

I nearly exploded climbing the stairs back from Dunnottar Castle. No nipping involved at all. Just a lot of huffing and puffing.

6 seemed ok on a recent holiday which surprised me because I thought I was unfit. I used to do this many regularly as a student to reach the project lab and nearly passed out doing so once after giving blood!

We have a tall/skinny house (5 floors) and I feel pretty winded by the time I get to the top.

I also run 5 miles every other day and have a resting heart rate of 58 (polishes halo). Stairs are bloody hard work.

I don't know how many flights of stairs it is to the away seats at Newcastle FC's ground but fewer than that.

None I would rather die than run up stairs

I can't run up any stairs but had to walk up to the 5th floor of the hospital mil was in, before Christmas because the public lifts were knackered. Mildly out of breath and soon recovered but my hips were not at all impressed.

3 - I have 4 to get to my office - 3 is doable - by 4 I am sweating and breathless!

We've just been to Paris and climbed the Eiffel Tower. DS (5) ran up the steps so I ran up after him and grabbed hold of his hand and he kept on running so we climbed all 709 steps rather quickly. I was breathing more heavily than normal but didn't feel like I was going to die. I do swim every day though which has clearly improved my fitness, last time I climbed it nearly 30 years ago I had to stop regularly.

I reckon four or five but my legs would hurt.

I climbed the hundred or so stone steps up to Tintagel Castle in the summer and could have happily collapsed at the top. Big, uneven, rough stone steps. Christ.