By Deecon Hill
Bob Teows a fifty-four year old stair climber. He wanted to be a stair climber since he was in eighth grade but he didn’t know what it was until he talked to a professor at Goshen College.
When he started out he either wanted to go to races with his friends or just with his son Ben. Then his son moved to Kansas so then he started doing it all by himself. After that he trained harder and kept going up in the ranks. Eventually he competed at the U.S. Bank in Los Angeles and earned an elite runner which gets him to do it again next year. That to him was his biggest accomplishment in his career because that’s where he realized that he was good enough to go places for a stair climbing race.
Then he got to meet the Willis Tower in Chicago. He said that was his biggest race he has ever done. He was at the 90th floor and he heard these workers say “You got this one more floor” which he thought oh I just have to go four more floors because his second biggest race at the time was only ninety-fourth floors but he really had to go the hundredth and third floor so he waited in this open rooms until he saw a couple people pass by and then he realized he had to go to the one hundredth and third floor.
Now he’s preparing himself for the U.S. Bank in Los Angeles this year trying to get the elite runner again for his second time in his stair climbing career. That’s how he became the forty-seventh best stair climber although it’s a “small sport” and be where he is today.