Sam joins you for your first session in week seven.
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Run around Abel with Sam. Got a Curly-Wurly.
Workout[]
| 10 minute fast walk |
| 5 minute free-form run |
| (Repeat 5 times)
1 minute run 15 seconds skipping |
| 5 minute free-form run |
| (Repeat 2 times)
3 minutes stretching 5 minute free-form run |
Cast[]
Plot[]
Getting Antsy[]
Doctor Myers thanks you for the meds run you did with Runner Six last week. She briefs you for this week's runs: they may seem easy, but you should push yourself as much as possible. Sam says he wants to come clean, but feels too antsy to do it cooped up in the comms shack. He dons a headset and comes out to join you as you train around Abel.
She'd Know[]
Sam comes out to join you. He tells you that he's had a ping back from a Rofflenet relay about 400 miles north. They think they've found Alice's sister, Frances. He's desperate to get word to her.
Private Stash[]
Sam gives you a chocolate bar from his own private stash as thanks for all your help.
Transcript[]
MAXINE MYERS: Welcome back, Five! And well done for that meds run last week. It’s really provided some things we urgently needed.
SAM YAO: And we’re grateful.
MAXINE MYERS: We are!
SAM YAO: Although it might not seem like it, from the way we keep shouting at Runner Six.
MAXINE MYERS: [laughs] Indeed. Runner Five, we’re going to do what might seem like an easy workout today: a ten minute warm-up walk and then some free-form running and some skipping, but make sure you give it all you’ve got this week, Runner Five. In free-form runs, whenever you feel you can run, run. Push yourself, because soon, the zoms’ll be pushing you. We’re starting with a ten minute brisk walk.
SAM YAO: So, I guess this is as good a time as any to come clean.
MAXINE MYERS: Come clean?
SAM YAO: It’s okay. Nothing too worrying. Well, you know it already. It’s just… well, I’ve been in touch with so many small bases, and…
MAXINE MYERS: Oh, that stuff. Sam, you’re shaking.
SAM YAO: Yeah, listen – I can’t really sit still, Just antsy, you know? Is it okay if I get a headset on and go out and walk with Runner Five?
MAXINE MYERS: It’s fine by me. We’re just doing in-Abel training today anyway.
SAM YAO: Hi! Hi. Oh, this is better! Just moving around is better. So yeah, lots of runners have been helping me, just quietly, when they have time, you know. We’ve been putting out pings across the network for anyone who’s heard of a Frances Adeyemi Dempsey last seen at Hobb Stadium. And we think -
MAXINE MYERS: It’s not 100% Sam, remember that.
SAM YAO: Yeah, yeah, I know. I do know. But we’ve had a pingback from a Rofflenet relay transmission from somewhere 400 miles north. We think we’ve found her.
MAXINE MYERS: What are you going to do, Sam? It’s not like you have good news for her.
SAM YAO: It’s not… [sighs] I just feel like it’s the last thing I could do for Alice, you know?
MAXINE MYERS: I understand.
SAM YAO: I feel like we never talked about this… Maxine, are you religious at all? Believe in God or any of that?
MAXINE MYERS: Well, I’m a woman of science, but I believe in doing good and trying to help people where I can.
SAM YAO: Yeah. Well, me, too. I never believed in God or anything. My family never did. But I feel like… if I could go to Alice’s grave and tell her that I found her sister, I feel like maybe somehow she’d know that.
MAXINE MYERS: You never know.
MAXINE MYERS: Okay, that’s good, Five! Now we’re going straight into a five minute free-form run. Run as much as you’re able, but if you need to slow down to a walk, do that.
MAXINE MYERS: Good. Keep up a good pace. Two minutes done.
MAXINE MYERS: That’s three minutes. You’re over halfway there.
MAXINE MYERS: Just one minute to go, Runner Five.
MAXINE MYERS: That’s great, Runner Five! Now you’re going to run for one minute and then give me fifteen seconds of skipping, five times. [laughs] That’s right, skipping. Just like you did when you were a kid. Step hop, step hop, remember? It’s a great exercise for runners. I mean, believe me, no zom’s going to catch a runner who skips. Start your first run now.
MAXINE MYERS: That’s great! Now give me fifteen seconds of skipping.
MAXINE MYERS: Good work! Now start running. We’ll do one minute.
MAXINE MYERS: Excellent! Now go back to skipping, fifteen seconds.
MAXINE MYERS: Great, Runner Five! Those skips will put a spring in your running step. Give me sixty seconds of running now.
MAXINE MYERS: Good. Remember how hard one minute of running used to feel? Now skip for fifteen seconds.
MAXINE MYERS: Great. Another minute of running now.
MAXINE MYERS: Good work! Now time for fifteen seconds of skipping.
MAXINE MYERS: That’s great, Runner Five! It’s your final run in this set of drills. One minute, go.
MAXINE MYERS: And now your final fifteen seconds of skipping. Give it everything you’ve got.
MAXINE MYERS: Good work, Runner Five! We’re going into our final free-form run drills now. You’ll be doing three five minute free-form runs with three minutes for stretching between each set. Run as much as you can, but walk if you need to. Take up a good stance and begin your first free-form run now.
MAXINE MYERS: Great! That’s two minutes. You’re doing well.
MAXINE MYERS: Just one more minute to go, Five!
MAXINE MYERS: That’s excellent, Runner Five! Now take three minutes to stretch, and we’ll go again.
MAXINE MYERS: Take up your stance again now, Five, and we’ll be running again in fifteen seconds.
MAXINE MYERS: Okay, Five, time for your second five minute free-form run. Go.
MAXINE MYERS: That’s two minutes, Runner Five. You’re doing well.
MAXINE MYERS: Just one more minute left, Runner Five. Keep going strong.
MAXINE MYERS: We’re proud of you, Five! Spend three minutes stretching out your muscles now, and then we’ll go again.
MAXINE MYERS: Get ready to go again now, Five. You’ll be starting again in fifteen seconds.
MAXINE MYERS: Okay, Runner Five, this is the last run of the day. Give it all your energy and finish strong.
MAXINE MYERS: Two minutes done, Runner Five. Looking good out there!
MAXINE MYERS: Final minute, Runner Five. Give it all you’ve got!
MAXINE MYERS: That’s it, Runner Five! You’re done for today.
SAM YAO: Time to stretch out and cool down and all that jazz now, eh?
MAXINE MYERS: Quite right. You could do my job.
SAM YAO: Uh, yeah, apart from the uh, actually saving lives and healing the sick? Yeah, definitely.
MAXINE MYERS: Well, I’ll train you up. We need more medics.
SAM YAO: Listen, Runner Five, I just want you to know I’m grateful for everything you’ve done, and I’m probably going to ask you to do more if we find out where Frances is. Now, I know this isn’t much, but it’s from my own private stash.
MAXINE MYERS: Hey, don’t eat it all at once, Runner Five. Good work today, by the way. As ever, take a day off tomorrow, and then we’ll go again.
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