Yume, On Location: Stairs Are Harder Than I Thought
The sixth installment of 'Yume, On Location': Yume shows up pumped to livestream the Tower Running meet, only to end up out of breath as a mere spectator.
Hearing that the Tower Running meet was just people climbing stairs over and over, I'll admit I got a little cocky and figured it wouldn't make for great livestream footage. Apparently a Fire Bureau runner named Koda won, and I wanted to get the closest possible shot, so I climbed along with the racers for part of the way myself. I was done by around the 15th floor. Apparently the runners went all the way to the 42nd. That makes no sense to me.
While I was collapsed on a landing, a veteran runner named Tarumi breezed right past me, cool as anything, and asked, "You okay?" I was not okay at all. My stream comments filled up with "what are YOU running for," which was too accurate to argue with.
I managed to get a word from Koda, the winner, when she came back down, and she told me she'd been "out of breath by the third floor six months ago" — which means she used to be way more impressive than I am right now. Out of spite, I signed up for a gym membership. Whether I actually go is a separate question.
On the way home, I heard that applications for Tokiwado's robot custody service have doubled this month alone, and even though it has nothing to do with stairs, I nearly teared up a little. Today's outing mostly just reconfirmed how little stamina I have, but I figure a round like that is allowed once in a while. Next time, I'm picking a story with no stairs in it.
