Antipodean Training Programme - Episode 6: Jacob's Ladder
Not far from the Johnson residence lies a unique feature of the Perth landscape known as 'Jacob's Ladder'. It was erected by Perth city in order to teach hasheletes the meaning of the words 'unfit' and 'knackered'. Consisting of several flights of concrete steps leading from Mounts Bay Road up to King's Park, set into the 60-degree slope of the Mount Eliza escarpment, it is used by almost every athelete in Perth as a means of wearing themselves out in short order.
On an average weekday morning or evening, there are maybe fifty people running up and down it, in various stages of distress. As a means of hill-training, it is without equal - eight rounds of the ladder is enough to make your knees feel a million years old, and your calves feel like they've just been microwaved. Breathing is usually a problem at the top...
Jeremy usually manages three rounds at double-step sprint, before collapsing in an exhaused heap at the top, and taking the other five lot more gently. As a means of putting you in touch with your own mortality, it can't be equalled. Castle Hill is going to be a piece of piss after this..
posted by Jeremy @ 6:33 PM
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