The compassionate gym owner

I've moved to Neipu for almost ten months now. Three months ago, I joined a gym near my neighborhood to train for my marathon. I was so delicate to complete the goal. So, I trained three days in the weekdays and sometimes on weekends. Because I had to work in the afternoon and clocked in before 1:30 p.m., I could leave the gym no later than 11:30 a.m. each morning. Don't ask me why I go to the gym so late. I don't know why would a gym open at 10 a.m. and could still survive.

Anyhow, those are the only hours I could train. I ran 1 hour each training and at average 8-9 MPH. Because I didn't have extra time to use other equipment, I usually left after I finished my run. After started my training about a month. There was one time, while I was running one the treadmill, it suddenly halt without reason. And that treadmill stayed break down for two weeks. Then I turned to another one to train. However, it broke down few days after that one, too.

I wondered the gym owner must hated me. lol. Who came to a gym only using the treadmill and ran that much. I thought I must caught his attention.

When the marathon approaching, I stopped training and took leaves to the gym for better preparation to the run. And after the marathon, to my surprised, I couldn't help but stay home to wait a whole recovery before starting to run again. In other words, I skipped the gym for almost half month.

the old treadmill

And today is the first day I went back to the gym after the marathon. I heard that the gym had bought new treadmills, but I didn't think much of it. And today when I walked into the gym, the owner was so thrill and told me that we had NEW treadmills.

the new treadmill

I wasn't expected that coming, my legs haven't recover to the origin status yet. And I didn't wear my long run shoes, either. I merely intended to do some weight and stretching. But how could you say no to that passionate owner. I greeted him politely and walked on the treadmill and warmed up like for 5 minutes and then I decided to go as plan to just do weights.

I thought it wouldn't hurt feelings, it's not a big deal. Since it was just a chill day, I just did some light weight and stretched a little bit. I felt that was enough for my first day. I walked on the treadmill again and was ready to just take a light walk.

Someone just appeared behind me without making a noise. lol It was the passionate owner obviously. He showed me every features of the new model. " You know what? It can even reach 22 MPH", said the owner. I was thinking" My speed maximum is 10 MPH thought" After his passionate speech, I started my run even I didn't wear the right shows and wasn't at a good status. I could feel some warm but creepy look around myself. I stated to run faster and I even felt a little bit scared. But I can sense the satisfaction of the passionate owner.

All of a sudden, my stomach cramped and I was so eager to take a dump lol. That was really the hardest moment of my run even harder than the 42 KM. It was too painful that I stopped and went to take a good dump in the gym for the first time and without any dignity left.

Amazingly, after the dump. I felt better and ran a pretty nice fifteen minutes run. That's the Treadmill poo poo story today. I hope you laugh about it. Don't be too serious about life. Just dump the bad things and you will feel better.