What do you do if the world's tallest building stands in your city? Try to run up its stairs as fast as you can!
A group of Yahoos from Taiwan recently banded together to run up the Taipei 101, which weighs in as the world's tallest skyscraper at 101 stories with 2,046 steps. That's 508 meters or one third of a mile... straight up. It was part of a masochistic race called the "Taipei 101 Run Up," which pits teams against each other to see who can reach the top first. The 20 participating teams included major brands like Coca-Cola, Nike, and Bayer.
Sporting purple Yahoo! T-shirts, our team included a few senior Yahoo! executives, including Ari Balogh, our executive vice president of Products and chief technology officer (visiting from California); Rose Tsou, senior vice president of our Asia region; and Charlene Hung, general manager of Yahoo! Taiwan.
So, how'd they do in this ultimate Stairmaster challenge? They placed fifth, just a few spots behind last year's second place finish (when they lost out to the fire department -- the only team you really want passing you). And the fastest Yahoo? That would be Ari, whose addiction to energy bars clearly paid off. He scaled the building's 101 stories in just 18:26.
Here are some photos from the race and sweet victory:
Nicki Dugan
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