Running is something that I've always done [open]

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Who: Steph Brown. Open
What: Training/stress relief
Where: Mog Hill, anywhere else you might wanna run into her
When: Newdi evening, after work
Notes: Feel free to run into her at any point during her evening.
Warnings: None yet.

Meditation has never really worked for Steph; she hates sitting still and when she tries, she ends up getting too distracted by all the movements she wants to make to actually relax. Running has been her form of meditation, so it's what she plans to do when she finishes work for the day and finds herself still feeling stressed out.

She heads home, changing into her work out clothes - the under layer of her Batgirl suit, a loose, long-sleeved shirt and sneakers - then goes out again. She wishes she had her iPod with her, just because it'd make it easier to tune out the city sounds, but she manages without. The thoughts that have been troubling her the last few days slip away, leaving her with nothing but the thump of her footfalls, the controlled rush of her breathing and the prickle of sweat as she pushes herself to run harder.

Her route takes her out of Mog Hill and in a loop through the nearby neighborhoods until she's back near the Valhalla Inn. Rather than going straight back to the Inn, she stops at a park close by to warm down. She stretches first, then starts going through series of kata; she doesn't get them perfect, but they help work out some of the tension. She would normally practice on bad guys, but she's too tired to risk patrolling tonight; Babs would yell at her if she got herself killed. Babs would probably yell at her for doing something like this in public, but it's not like martial arts is all that exotic, so Steph figures she can just say she learned all this at self defence class or something.

She'll be there until late, until her muscles are sore and her mind is clear, then she'll walk the rest of the way home.

Comments

[djravenfall]

"Eh, place like this?" Kaitlyn remarks, looking around them as they walk, while this time trying to remain aware of where she's walking. "It seems interesting enough that I would hand deliver everything if I could anyway." She catches Steph's reaction to her mention of the band, but she makes nothing of it. Not like she could go grab a CD or her iPhone anymore anyway and remind her who they are.

"THough I guess first I gotta find more people t' deliver mail to. That should make for a fun weekend, eh?" She looks over at Steph with a widening smirk. "It'll be fun, though. Unless I meet someone really weird. Or a complete tool, every place has 'em."

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"Good point, I got most of my exploring done just trying to find people," The new arrivals tend to cluster around Mog Hill, but Steph had met some people out further and it had involved a lot of wandering around lost and looking desperately at her CiD map to try to find her way.

She smiles back, "There are both weird people and tools here, I'm sure you'll manage to avoid them."

[djravenfall]

"With my luck?" Kaitlyn replies, hands on her hips as she looks over at Steph. "I'll run int' every single one of them. Hopefully not any that can, like, fire lasers from their eyes or want t' stab me with claws or somethin' like that." She grins, watching for the inn in the distance.

"But I guess that's what makes things excitin', eh?" She seems genuine in this sentiment, maybe even a little wistful. "Won't have t' worry about getting bored, at least."

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The comment about claws makes her think of Laura, but while Laura might be a little weird, Steph doesn't think she needs to warn anyone about her, "If you do meet ones that can shoot lasers from their eyes, I'd advise running away very fast."

"Oh, definitely, if you get board here you're probably doing something wrong," Steph grins. Most people would disagree with that sentiment, but she's not most people, and she approves of the fact that Kaitlyn isn't either.