Saturday 15 September 2018

Thursday 6 September 2018

06/09/18: Steps

I haven’t had many thrilling walks lately, so decided to count the steps, upward and downward, in a typical working day.

Here's the tally...

Totteridge & Whetstone tube entrance (street level) to Northern Line platform (southbound): down 32 steps.

Exchange at King's Cross from Northern Line (Bank branch) to Piccadilly Line (westbound) via broken escalator: up 32 steps.

Exit from Earl’s Court station to street level – lift to “ticket hall level”, so no steps, then up 8 steps to the way out.

Entrance from pavement to Tesco on A4 to buy lunch: up 5 steps.

Exit from Tesco to pavement to head for office: up 6 steps.

Going from pavement to business area: down 29 steps to security door, then up 10 steps to where the offices start.

Pavement to office: up 21 steps.

Lunchbreak: office to pavement: down 21 steps.

Browsing in Waterstones: down 20 steps, up 20 steps.

End of lunchbreak: pavement to office again: up 21 steps.

End of day: office to pavement: down 21 steps.

Business area to pavement: down 10 steps to security door, then up 29 steps to the main road.

Pavement to Earl’s Court tube platform (District Line): down 24 steps.

Exchange at Embankment from District Line to Northern Line (northbound): down 22, then up 3 to escalator.

Totteridge & Whetstone tube platform to pavement: up 32.


•Total up: 187 steps
•Total down: 179 steps