Numerous top finishes among team members in suburban Chicago ALA climbStair Club Milwaukee took its act on the road, not only fielding a team for, but winning the team portion of the American Lung Association's Saturday, Feb. 10, Oakbrook Terrace Fight For Air Climb.
Led by Stair Club Milwaukee core members Adam Bruss, Josh Jackett, and Sheryl Leonard-Schneck, the team netted a cumulative time of 23:39—a 4:44 per person average among its top five participants—which was good enough to edge out longtime Chicagoland stair team Half-Fast Climbing Society's 24:00-flat (4:48/person average). Stair Club Milwaukee's Wisconsin representation was rounded out by Leonard-Schneck's husband Tom Schneck and daughter Megan, as well as Stair Club Milwaukee team friend Brian Rummelhart, captain of the Kenosha Drivers Club cycling club/stair climb team. Bruss, the 2017 CF Climb Milwaukee winner, who participated in the Oakbrook Terrace FFA's triple climb competition, notched a 3:30 finish for his first climb up the 31-story, 680-step stairwell of suburban Chicago's Oakbrook Terrace Tower, which counted toward the team time. His first climb finish also went down as the third fastest climb on the day for overall climb standings--only six seconds off of first place. Additionally, Bruss took first among all participants in the triple climb with a net time of 11:50 (3:30, 4:05, 4:15). Overall climb standings include the times of all single climb participants as well as the first climbs of all double climb, triple climb, and power hour participants. In all of the event's multi-climb competitions, participants climb to the top before taking the elevator back to the ground floor. While the time between climbs is more open-ended for double and triple climb participants, power hour participants are given an hour to climb as many times as they want/are able, and are allowed to exceed the hour threshold as long as they cross the start line of their final climb before they reach the one-hour mark. Rummelhart joined Bruss in the triple climb, finishing third overall, netting 14:52 across his three climbs (4:18, 5:20, 5:14). Rummelhart's first climb of 4:18 went for third fastest on the team and 10th in the overall results. Stair Club Milwaukee's team time was further rounded out by first-climb PRs of 4:05 from Jackett and 4:48 from Leonard-Schneck, who both participated in the event's power hour competition. Jackett finished in seventh place in both the overall (single/first climb) standings and the power hour standings. He led all participants who maxed out at nine climbs in the hour with a cumulative nine-climb time of 48:44. Leonard-Schneck joined Jackett in the nine-climb club, logging a total of 52:40 in the stairwell across her nine trips to the top, which was good enough for second among all women and 11th overall. Her first climb time went down as fourth among all women and 17th overall. The team's fifth scoring member was Tom Schneck, whose 6:58 finish bested his debut effort from 2017. While it was his second year participating in the Oakbrook Terrace climb, it was was Megan Schneck's (7:52) first time at the event. The team win was not only Stair Club Milwaukee's first win at a climb outside Wisconsin, but also its first time competing as a team at an event outside Wisconsin. The win was also its seventh team win across all stair climb events anywhere. Stair Club Milwaukee has collected six team wins at Milwaukee's 47-story, 981-step US Bank Center, winning both the Milwaukee Fight For Air Climb and CF Climb Milwaukee not only in its respective team categories at each event, but also outright across all team categories at both events in 2015, 2016, and 2017. The team holds an event record of 31:17 (6:16/person average) for its five fastest finishers at the Milwaukee FFA (2017), as well as a three-person event record of 17:16 (5:46/person average) at CF Climb Milwaukee (2017). A total of 431 finishers completed the Oakbrook FFA, with the event raising nearly $140,000 for the American Lung Association in Illinois, Greater Chicago. Full results can be found at The Racer's Hub.
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