I did it! 21 min and 48 sec.

After thinking about it for 8 years, I climbed today the 1776 (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) stairs, that is 144 flights of 12 stairs plus ten more flights of stairs, I believe these are just nine stairs per flight.

Using good advice, my morning started at 5:00 a.m. Zoomed through the drive through of a Tim Hortons to pick up a dozen timbits to get me the energy for the climb and by 6:00 am I was in the parking lot beside the tower.

Signed the waiver, and here I am, starting to climb the stairs of CN Tower, now the second tallest free standing structure in the world.

I started with a father and his 10 year old son that was ahead of us. By flight 50, I left the father behind. A few more flights of stairs, and I ...