{"id":2697,"date":"2019-11-14T14:36:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T21:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2020-03-23T16:49:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T23:49:57","slug":"battalion-park-stairs-signal-hill-nov-13-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/battalion-park-stairs-signal-hill-nov-13-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Battalion Park Stairs, Signal Hill, SW, Calgary, Nov 13, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Top of Battalion Park, Signal Hill <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lower East set of stairs, Battalion Park about 20 m and about 45-46 m to top of park <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Battalion Park Stairs<\/strong> – three sets of wooden stairs that face south so lots of sun and chinook action.<\/p>\n

East Lower set<\/strong> is behind Lowes-Staples and is 20 m from my watch. Weird stairs – 125 steps with avg inch rise of 6.5 ” = 20.6 m. The rise of the first step and last step in a flight are short and long with the rest of steps about 6.5 inches. Strange versus normal 8 or 9 inch rise. There are 13 intermediate landings with as few as 3 steps and as many as 19 steps in a flight.<\/p>\n

The total is about 45 – 46 m from bottom by Staples to top of park by upper cenotaph.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Upper set<\/strong> is 90 steps with 9 inch rise(20.6 m)<\/p>\n

plus 2 m between top of lower east set and the center cenotaph and 2 m above top set of upper stairs to upper cenotaph.(20.6+20.6+2+2=45.2 m)<\/p>\n

West Lower set<\/strong> is behind Library and Superstore. Bottom is higher than East set so about (82 steps = 18.7 m) and\u00a040 m to the top<\/strong> to around upper cenotaph.<\/p>\n

Both lower sets connect to upper by a paved path and there is another cenotaph at base of upper stairs.<\/p>\n

Note for comparison the McHugh Bluff stairs<\/strong>, Memorial Drive behind the Calgary Curling club are 110 feet high = 33.5 m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are lots of information signs which explain the park and the large white numbers which identify the regiments that were stationed nearby in WW1.<\/p>\n

My phone GPS has problems here due to shielding from buildings so lots of spikes.<\/p>\n

Garmin watch was best but need to circle cenotaph at top and do a 5 m loop at bottom for the watch to register or catch up.<\/p>\n

Had surgery on a bone spur on ankle in late Sept and still have some swelling and stiffness issues in ankle.<\/p>\n

Nov 13 sunny and warm so took dog and did 10 leisurely laps on the stairs so ~ 450 m up and down and 6.4 km in under 2 hours.<\/p>\n

Leisurely about 7.5 min up and 4.5 min down so 10 laps = 75 min up and 45 min down =120 min. About 360 m\/hr average on the up.<\/p>\n

Ankle felt good and nice to stretch legs out more.<\/p>\n

Daily 1 hour 4-5 km walks with dog are good and have been doing hills and stairs but needed to do some more elevation.<\/p>\n

Started up hockey which is HIIT equivalent as do 90% to max heart rate several times per shift for most shifts for 1.25 hrs.<\/p>\n

Still some ankle swelling even in tight skates so doubt that 6-8 hours in a ski boot would work for now.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Some Pics<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Battalion Park Stairs – three sets of wooden stairs that face south so lots of sun and chinook action. East Lower set is behind Lowes-Staples and is 20 m from my watch. Weird stairs – 125 steps with avg inch … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[45,174,119,177,175,176,158],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training","tag-alberta","tag-calgary","tag-hike","tag-outdoor","tag-run","tag-stairs","tag-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}