101 Challenges:

Location: Taipei

Details: Taipei is home to the Worlds tallest building open to the public - the Taipei 101 skyscraper. This was to be the scene of our actual record breaking challenge. All we had to do was run up all 101 floors via the stairwell in less than an hour and we would be guaranteed a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

As Roy Castle put it “dedication’s all you need” and with us having that in bucket loads, we headed off for the highest building we could see. Being 101 Challenges, there was obviously a catch. We were to do the race up the thousands of stairs in a 3-legged style.

Outcome: Having done no research at all on this Challenge, we arrived at the building hoping to open the doors and start our ascent. Unfortunately there’s a massive shopping mall at the base of this fantastic piece of architecture and so, it took us absolutely ages to find the stairs. Worryingly, at this point, we were already knackered and, we hadn’t even climbed a flight!

We decided that the best course of action would be to use our inside leg(s) first then outside legs – simple really.

Ready, steady, go! We flew up the first few floors in amazing and beautiful fluency – faster than a speeding bullet, but not as fast as a lift.

Everything was going better than planned (if we ever bothered to make one) but for now, that’s it. The telly folk won’t let us tell you anymore as apparently it’d ruin the show.