A.M. - 45 minute treadmill run at the Life Centre. Felt pretty good. All flat today, as follows:
5 minutes @ 9.5 mph
5 @ 10.0
15 @ 10.5
15 @ 11.0
5 @ 11.5
Can I rant for a minute?.. So there's this certain treadmill at the gym that I run on 90%+ of the time (i.e. 'my treadmill'). Although many of the machines in the place are practically the same, I've been going there long enough to know which ones are, in my opinion, the better ones. And there's this one in particular that's my clear favorite. As a matter of practice, the first thing I usually do when get there in the morning is drop off my stuff on that treadmill as a means to 'reserve' it. Then I'll warm-up and stretch for a couple minutes before getting on. I don't think I'm out of line for doing that because there are always plenty of open machines. So its not like I'm preventing someone else from using a treadmill.
So, I got there this morning noticed a lady was on 'my mill'... No problem, happens all the time. By the time I'm done warming-up and stretching, there's a good chance she'll be done. If not, I'll resort to option 2. Sure enough, a couple minutes later she was done. I broke from my warm up for a minute and went and put my stuff on it; iPod and keys in the little cubby under the controls, water bottle in the bottle holder, towel and headphones over the side arm rail. Should be pretty clear to someone that the treadmill is taken, right?! I went back to warming up for about two minutes and no sooner was I coming back that I see this older fellow walking like its no ones business on my treadmill.
You might say to me, suck it up and find another one. Well, that's what I did, but I was peeved. I thought, what nerve this guy has to take my treadmill when there are at least 10 others he could use, with equally good line of site to the TV and perfectly fine for walking. Couldn't he see my stuff? Plus, wouldn't he have noticed a pattern by now of a dude with relatively long hair (me) pounding on that machine at about the same time every other morning? I walked over there and without saying anything and began gathering my stuff from around him in a deliberate manner. He acted a little surprised, but continued his walking for another 20 minutes. Fortunately, my second favorite mill was open...The run cooled me down (figuratively). Pay attention people! He's lucky he played the naive card with me, because had he tried to prove a point to me for 'reserving' the machine, he would have gotten a piece of my mind and it wouldn't have been very nice. | 