Gym, Sunday Morning

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam set her water bottle and towel aside, then made her way over to the machines. She was already sweaty from her early morning run around the island (twice around, and wasn't it embarrassing that she couldn't make the third circuit), but was now here to work on her fighting, which she'd been neglecting a lot lately.

And as much as she loved her swoop bike, she figured it wouldn't save her life. It had been too quiet lately, and it made Sam uncomfortable. So here she was, doing some circuit training on the machines to get her strength up. Her plan after that was to work out with someone, or do some damage on the heavy bag.

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[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally had made her own way down to the gym, much with the same thinking as Sam. She'd managed to worry herself with the talk of man-eating fishbats.

She nodded at the other girl and greeted with a short "Hey" before starting her stretches, which she'd not done in far too long.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Cally," Sam waved from where she was doing leg presses, slightly out of breath. "How's your morning going?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Well, just sorta started, really," Cally said, stretching. "Had an orange for breakfast, and came down here. Not much to report. Yours?"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner had been slacking off in the workout department lately, which made him feel . . . okay, kind of guilty. And it had been a very quiet break for him. It was getting too cold out for a native California boy to play much soccer (and wow, that really sucked), he hadn't been in the salle in quite a while, and he hadn't hit the weight room or done any sort of forms practice in long enough that he couldn't remember.

So in an attempt to both assuage the slacker-guilt and burn off a little energy he headed down to the gym, did some stretches, and then hit the weights. Maybe he'd try and get in a little staff work or some katas after that.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Did a couple of laps around the island," Sam said, "for once, I really like the cooler weather. Makes running more comfortable."

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam waved idly to Conner and pulled the weight bar down behind her head again. "Morning."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Oh, running," Cally said. "I probably should be doin' that, too." She stretched a bit more. "I am so gonna be a marshmallow when they send me into basic, at this rate."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Basic?" Sam asked with interest. "You're enlisting?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, with the fleet back home," Cally said. "Already turned in the paperwork for a delayed enlistment. They're supposed to wait until I'm 18 for basic, and then 'til I'm done with school for active duty."

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"That's great," Sam smiled at her. "And yeah, you should probably get used to running, if your fleet's anything like the Air Force Academy."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Conner replied as he set his weights and slid the locking pin into place. "Good to see I'm not the only one who had this idea today."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Well, I'm not, like, plannin' on making a career of it. And I'm definitely not signing up to be a pilot. I'm just doin' it so I can pay for dental school," Cally said.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Unfortunately, they don't care when they're making you run," Sam snickered, "but I'm sure the fleet needs good dentists just as much as they need everything else."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Most people are still in bed, sleeping off Saturday night, I think," Sam let the bar down slowly and stretched out her shoulders.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"That way we don't have to fight them off with a stick for the equipment," Conner deadpanned. He hooked his legs under the weight bar and grimaced when he realized it was a little more strain than he'd expected. "Okay, it has definitely been way too long."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Well, I have a one year term of service, then I'm done," Cally said. "Since we don't have a whole lot of military conflict, it's easy to get out. You know, assuming war doesn't randomly break out or something improbably like that."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"One year's not long at all," Sam said, grunting a little with the exertion. "As soon as you get used to it, it'll be over."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Fighting with sticks isn't all it's cracked up to be anyway," Sam made a face as she reached up for the lat bar again. "Yeah, tell me about it. I'm going to be sooooo sore tomorrow."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Just because he wasn't at the Academy was no excuse for Bridge to slack off on his training, so here he is in the gym. He gives everyone a general wave before heading to the mats to start stretching.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"My thoughts exactly," Cally said. "Though who knows. I still got over a year here, and a lot can change. About anything could happen to change my plans."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam waved back at Bridge.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"At least you've got a plan," Sam huffed, pushing out with her legs and feeling the strain in her thighs. "That's better than I can say."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Morning, Sam!" Bridge says, practically bouncing over once he'd finished with stretching.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

She grinned at his enthusiasm. "Morning. Wow, you're...peppy."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Really?" Cally said. "I always figured you had one." She stopped stretching.