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Chloe Gates

Tower Run 2025

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RNLI Tower Run 2025

The RNLI Tower Run is London’s biggest stair climb challenge, with runners tackling over 1400 steps whilst raising money to support the RNLIs lifesaving work in London and along the UK coastline.

The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. Powered by kind donations, our search and rescue service has been saving lives around the UK for over 200 years. 

Every pound and penny raised from the RNLI Tower Run will go towards equipping our volunteer lifeboat crews with the essential training, kit, boats and materials required to continue our lifesaving mission for years to come.

Please help raise funds for the RNLI

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£188 + £26.50 GiftAid

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£250

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My Achievements

Reached 100% of fundraising goal

Thanked a donor

Increased fundraising target to £250+

Updated profile pic

Reached 50% of fundraising goal

Shared fundraising page

My Updates

Another step rate increase

Monday 3rd Mar
Last night - I'm not two weeks into this yet and I've increased my step rate again on the stepmill. Tonight I did my 1500 in seventeen minutes at 89 steps a minute, and I felt great when I finished. But I feel like I'm going fast, and I don't know if that's safe, even if I do still feel fine afterwards, so I'll try to stick to this speed for a while. I've got months till the run up. Did my usual abductor and adductor after, and I put the weight up. My physio would be so pleased with me! Then I did three sets of ten on the assisted chin up, taking 22.5 kilos off my weight.

Another step rate increase

Sunday 2nd Mar
Have reposted this above with a photo 

Step rate increase today

Wednesday 26th Feb
I'm doing 1500 steps, which is more than I need to because the stepmill steps are higher than they will be in the building. At the 75 steps a minute I found comfortable when I started this is twenty minutes on the machine. So that's what I've been doing till today, and today I decided to increase the step rate. They go up in seven step increments, so today I did 82 steps a minute and I reduced the workout time to compensate, although I forgot the time, so instead of finishing after eighteen and a half minutes, I did nineteen minutes. I still upped the speed near the end for my sprint finish. 
I've decided I like the seated cable row more than the shoulder press, and this feels like it will prepare the muscles I'll need when I'm using the handrails in the run up. 
I'm leaving the gym feeling so energised and my back is straight and I'm walking tall. I feel amazing. 

First before work workout

Saturday 22nd Feb
Just had a quick visit before work, as Saturdays are a late start.
Climbed 22 Bishopsgate as normal, but the heart rate monitor wasn't working today. This is how I hope to see my fitness improve over time, and I want to increase the step rate as my fitness increases. Now if this thing stays broken I'll have to get a smart watch. Hopefully it'll get fixed. I did increase the step rate by 14 steps per minute for the last minute - a sprint finish of a kind. I was pretty tired. But as soon as I came off the machine I felt like I could go again, so I'm not pushing myself too hard. 
Used the hip abductor/adductor for my impingement and the shoulder press which will help me when I'm pulling myself up by the handrails. I'm liking some of the strength equipment. 

The stepmill my nemesis?

Thursday 20th Feb

First time at the gym

Wednesday 19th Feb
I signed up at Anytime Fitness today, just a third of a mile from my place, so a short walk.

Immediately got on the stepmill, and any ideas I'd had that I would be jogging up 58 floors in no time were quickly done away with! But it looks like I've got a good base level of fitness to be starting from. I set the steps per minute to a rate that eventually got me breathing through my mouth and my heart beating at a good rate, but without making me feel like I was about to expire. At my level now, I'm in the middle of the field, looking at past results. And two thirds of the runners are men, who have an athletic advantage, so being in the middle of the results table as a woman with no training is a great place to be starting from. But I want to improve. 

I've never trained for anything before, so I don't know how quickly and to what level I can expect to increase my fitness, and with how many visits in a week. For now I'm thinking about three times a week, so I have recovery days for my muscles. 

Thank you to my Sponsors

£31.80

Lee Merritt

£26.50

Paul Everett

Have a brilliant time! I know I’d be taking the lift :)

£26.50

Elizabeth Tehan

£23.30

Chloe Gates

£21.20

Emma Kidd

£21.20

Anonymous

£15.90

Neil Huntingdon

£10.60

Lisa Green

Good luck! x

£10.60

Paul Tehan