Vienna - Austria

This in Vienna already traditional event was held on November 10 2007 for the 16th time.

In the years 1992-1999 managed by  Schuh-Ski represented by Claudia Viehauser, since 2000 organised by the main person itself:

Der Neue Donauturm
Donauturm Aussichtsturm- und Restaurantbetriebsgesellschaft m.b.H.

Race Info available at: http://www.donauturm.at

Racemode

• Single start within an age group every 20 seconds
• Lightgate at start and finish line
• Eliterunners in 1 minute gaps at the end

There are 779 Steps in 60 pedestals ( new count 2004 with marking on every 10th step).
You always see before you a sign, how many pedestals still to go, since 2000 there are 3+14 bonus steps because of easier timing. It´s a ´leftturn´ run with short rhytm-breakers at 59 - 45 - 33 - 31- 30- 29 - 25 - 15 - 8 pedestals. The standard distance per pedestal is 13 steps and for the last 15 pedestals it gets narrower and overtaking a little bit more difficult.
The metal stairs are 20 cm high, just each first step of a pedestal is 24 cm high; the stairs are 26 cm wide. The last 14 steps out of the staircase to the viewing platform are made of concrete.

Since 2003 there is price money for the fastest 'half way home' too. The fastest female and male are invited to next year´s Empire State Building Run Up.
During the race athletes and spectators can follow the race on a monitor in the lobby of the tower. There is live-moderation, cameras are at the start, half way up, 15 pedestals before and at the finish. Participants arriving there not only get hot tea and a shirt, but a bracelet too which allows visiting the "Isola" , a restaurant near the tower where you can have food and drink for free .... Monitors are there too.

my personal race report from 2000, in german only so far