Climb stairs to pass a duel

Anna Yvern, is named. It’s the one with the Nordic walking poles. She is 57 years old and has a kindness that borders on welcoming. When she’s not climbing stairs, she works in the department of production of TV-3 programs. One morning with her and you end up with an XXL smile, contained tears and three days of shoelaces in the ass He has been climbing for almost two and a half years stairs in Instagram (@escalesdyvern). “I go up stairs and all the images of Fran come to me there on the road waiting for me, you know? & rdquor ;. Fran was her husband. On December 31, she died three years ago.

“This is the origin of everything”. Anna points with her cane to some steps that go unnoticed next to a driveway. Park Guell: 321 -he has counted them, yes- to the Joan Sales viewpoint. “Are the first stairs that I posted on Instagram & rdquor ;, remember. “In this first section they are flat and easy, and Fran could up to here, but there she stopped -Anna points a few steps higher-. And I went up and down again, and we kept walking & rdquor ;.

They used to run together, they did races, mountain, until he got sick –lung cancer-. He couldn’t run, so they started walk together. “I never got tired of it, and I told him: ‘Look, you know what? Wait here, I’ll go up these stairs and come back&rdquor ;. When Fran died, Anna continued to climb stairs. “For me it was like feeling him close again His eyes mist over. It was a process and need. He had to climb stairs, and come to climbing stairs”. What she is learning now – she adds – is that there is no one waiting for her.

“Cheer up!”. Anna smiles at you without a trace of weariness as you chase after her with your tongue hanging out of her. The same unattainable feeling as the Coyote behind the Roadrunner. We barely took two and a half stairs: about 300 steps. It’s the start of your “classic” route: 10 kilometres, 1,478 steps in total. That’s about 80 floors. Anna has counted one by one all the steps that appear on her Instagram. keep counting them. “Depends on how you are,” he smiles. If I’m more pallá than pacá and I need peace of mind, I’ll tell them & rdquor ;. It is therapeutiche assures.

From the Joan Sales lookoutAnna takes you in search of an alley: Uruguay. Have 30 steps “for processing”, what does she say. “They are to reach other stairs that take you to the place where you want to go & rdquor ;. Anti-instagramer steps. In these routes to face duels they count the same: one by one.

275 steps process later, you arrive at Passage of Ceuta: 104 rustic steps that seem taken from a village. “I find stairs -says Anna between sections-, and the first time I climb them, I don’t know where they go. It’s a bit like my day to day life, that I don’t know where it goes now. You are doing, and that’s it. You are following, you are breathing & rdquor ;. #pushbreathefollowis one of his ‘hashtags‘ from Instagram. “It is a way of life she points out. To be aware of what you are doing: you go up, you breathe… and you continue”.

Turo del Carmel. You catch your breath with views and go back down. In the grand view streetabove number 136, there are some stairs that lead to others and a third. 156 steps to the batteries. What do we have 1,000 already? “Everything is possible & rdquor ;, replies Anna to see your open mouth. “Everything, everything is possible. You just have to know your rhythm & rdquor ;, she shrugs. “Better to do it and adapt it to your needs than not to do it. Not even trying & rdquor ;. You go up, you breathe. Are you still.

You can’t even talk anymore. you look at the Tenerife Stairs as if Mordor arrived. The last 370 steps to the Carmel batteries. At this point you have more beats per minute than paying the electricity bill. #dezeroacent. It’s another of his Instagram ‘hashtags’. “You are at zero heart rate when you start some stairs and you do 30 steps and you are already at 100”.

The talk also goes up in beats as you add steps. “The process of duel… Anna shares between sweats. You feel pain and you will always feel painbut it has to be transformed into love. Because she was. That even if a tear falls, you end up smiling & rdquor ;. Not before, but now he always climbs stairs with helmets: he listens to some of the ‘play list‘ that her husband wore to run. “You can’t have a physical presence, but you have a presence… he snorts. you feel it You look to the side and there is no one, indeed, but You feel it”.

Go up, always go up, never go down. “Never back down & rdquor ;, points out Anna. She never goes down the stairs that she has climbed on each route. “That’s very important,” she says. Don’t go back down. It is life philosophy”. always ago circular routes. “The theme is a bit of a hamster -he laughs-, a bit obsessive. But I’m doing very well mentally & rdquor ;. And he climbs the last stretch of the Stairs of Tenerife while he talks about life, about death, about his three “impressive & rdquor ; children. “I am privileged, it is that I am privileged & rdquor ;, nods uphill.

Anna finds out ladders almost accidentally. “It’s just that I see them & rdquor ;, she shrugs her shoulders. “I see them from afar and that’s where I’m going & rdquor ;. She shares them every Monday on Instagram: long (438 steps at a stretch, The Font del Mont), steep (166 steps of vertigo, Davallada de Gallecs), graffitied (95 steps with rabbit and carrot in Saint Elionor).

“People write to me privately & rdquor ;, account still surprised. “They tell me: ‘Oysters, I can’t wait to climb stairs. You explain it in a way that make you want to climb stairs‘”. She had never considered it, until now she did not think that she would be interested in anyone else, but yes, she would love to share his routes. “It’s a way -smiles- to get to know Barcelona uphill”.