there should be a warning on these things

I was so proud of myself this morning, up at 7am (2 wake up yells from Bob and the threat of my car being towed) I love the gym in the morning. The only problem is I only get free parking until 9am. (another motivation to get up at 7am) The gym here is empty in the mornings. about 10 people, wandering from machine to machine. All the other girls remind me of the "ED" girls from the psych floor I worked on at Hopkins. Thin as rails, stringy hair and baggy sweats. In the evening the gym is packed, last night the only machines that were avalible were flat tread mills and stair climber. I had to get on a stair climber. A stair climber! The one machine at the gym that actually makes your butt bigger!

Back to this morning. I had my choice of the machine selection, so I chose the eliptical (legs were tired from a long treadmill run from the night before - I got my fat ass off the stairclimber as soon as a treadmill vacated) I've gotten a little obsessed with perfecting my eliptical training. I try to keep my revolutions per minutes above 70. Today I decided to alternate between forward and backward revolutions. I use to do this all the time, every ten minutes switch directions. backwards is much harder. But I was concerned about my 70rpm goal, what would an appropriate goal for reverse revoluitons?? Well I don't know what happened to the machine, but it went nuts, it was going soo fast, the revoluitions were in the 80's! I've never gotten that fast forwards! My legs were totally spazing out, I flet like I was road ruynner, where his legs are just spinning in circles. Most of my efforts were put into trying to slow down. I was pumping up the resistance, but nothing was working, it would just speed right up. Then I realized the fatal flaw of the elipitical machines, you can jump off! If your treadmill goes nuts you just hop off, stairmaster, jump off, bike, lift up your legs. There was nothign I could do here, if I tried to get off while it was runing I would have been malled by the machine, or flown off it and most likley land on and kill one of the ED girls. Finally I did get the thing to stop and almost collapsed on my jello legs. Those things really need a warning!