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Reply { ARCHIVED } ----------------- Day Zero, Sept 2015
[Prison Quest] Cardio - Autumn

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Grifferie rolled 1 4-sided dice: 3 Total: 3 (1-4)


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:44 pm


Autumn had been making it a point to try and shape up. One could never be too prepared and she did enjoy living. Thus, she made it a point to go to the gym every day. Even if she didn't work out hard, doing something helped ease her mind. What if they needed to run? Needed to fight? She had to be ready, right?

So, she went to the gym. Today was much like yesterday. She settled in to stretch, to move, and overall warm up. Leg stretches first, for she really didn't want to hurt herself and pull a muscle. What if she had to run on a pulled hamstring. Oh, no. She had no intention of dying.

Next were arms, because they helped not only with balance, but with fending off the dead. Undead. Whatever. It was also important to have strong arms for her fence duty.... which she didn't want to think about. The thought made her ill.

So she instead switched to a few warm up motions, not quite jogging but nearly. She had no idea if it helped, but she liked it.

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2-3. You've warmed up adequately. Time to get to work. No modifier.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:49 pm


Feeling sufficiently warmed up, Autumn went to her old childhood nemesis. The Jump rope. It had never done anything too bad to her, besides trip her more than once, but it had always, always tired her out. She'd never been able to jump rope as long as her friends.

But she was getting better. Maybe it was the stress of the things going on in the world, but in the last two weeks, she could swear her jumping had improved. She could jump longer, and faster than before. Every day she felt just a little bit better.

Jump, jump, jump! Over and over again. Faster and faster.

Until she stopped. Huffing and puffing, Autumn tossed the rope down and decided to walk it off. (Again, if it helped she didn't really know.)

Her goal, in the end, was to do one of those fancy "jump once and have the rope pass under you several times" sort of things.

Sometimes she wondered if she should just concentrate on running.

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6 -15: You get a decent workout. Not amazing, but it's still something to help keep you in shape. +2 bars


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PostPosted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 9:57 pm


SECOND TIME /reusing thread


Autumn found herself in the gym again. Good old familiar gym. Good old familiar jump rope. Did she really want to try that out today? Or maybe do something else?

Either way, warming up was in order. Sitting down on the floor, she set about stretching. It reminded her of High School, when their P.E. teacher would have them hold each position for a full count of eight. "Stretching is very important," she heard the teacher's voice loud and clear in her mind, "without it, injury is a very real risk." Autumn had not really known if that was true, but she'd always kind of liked the stretching. Just how far could she stretch? Could she touch her toes while sitting like this?

Indeed, she still could. She still had it- Ouch!

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1. Ouch! Seems like you might have overdone it a bit. -3 to your work out roll.


Something in her leg twinged, and Autumn realized she might have taken it just a hair too far. Clearly she wasn't quite as flexible anymore. "Okay," she told herself. "Just have to take it easy."

So, gingerly, she switched legs, and proceeded to gently stretch out the other one. When she got to her feet again, she took a few testing steps. It seemed like things were fine, but she probably should not push it too far today.

Jump rope might be out.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 10:09 pm


Autumn decided the treadmill might be the safest bet. Keep the cardio up, but less strain on her leg.

She started slowly, as she knew she should. Sadly, even forcing herself to go slowly left too much room for thinking.

How long had they been here? How much longer would they stay? What was going on outside those walls? The city was lost, she knew that much. Between her own guesses and from what she'd heard others say. But what about beyond the city? She hadn't grown up here. A little more north, a small little town. How was her family? Did they wonder about her? Were they safe enough to wonder about her. Autumn had to admit it had been three full days before she'd taken the time to think about them. That wasn't something she was proud of, but it was a fact. Survival had been foremost on her mind those first few days.

Survival was still important, but it was wearing her down. The fence duty, the caged in feel, the greyness of the sky. It was all slowly getting to her.

"No," she whispered. She couldn't' think about it. She just had to do it. Live it. Survive. Keep training, keep trying.

She pushed a button on the treadmill, ready to take it a little faster. Or so she thought.

"Ah!" A hop, a skip, another hop and she was off the thing. Her leg muscle was not too keen the treadmill.

"Well hopefully I won't have to run today."

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1-5: You tried to work out, but you ended up hurting yourself more than anything else. + 0 Bars.


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{ ARCHIVED } ----------------- Day Zero, Sept 2015

 
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