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When it comes to selecting a treadmill to run on at the gym, it\u2019s my belief that it\u2019s very similar to that of selecting a urinal in the men\u2019s room.\u00a0 In other words, choose the treadmill furthest from another human being, and at the very least, leave a gap of at least one treadmill in between people.\u00a0 The gaps are to be filled when there are no other options available, and even then, try and find the treadmill between at least one attractive woman.<\/span><\/p>\n Yes, I\u2019m aware that my rationale and decision to write about something to trite and petty makes me sound psychotic, but these are thoughts that genuinely swirl through my head, when I\u2019m on treadmill #17 out of 25 available, and in spite of the fact that pretty much 1-10 were completely unoccupied, two grown men insisted on using #16 and #18.<\/span><\/p>\n This, I do not believe, is in the least bit cool.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Needless to say, it cramps my style, and genuinely makes me feel a little claustrophobic being sandwiched in between two dudes who are vastly inferior runners than I am.\u00a0 Not only does the clomping on neighboring treadmills a distraction, which no amount of volume increase on my iPhone can drown out, people quite frankly smell.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s a musky sour BO, but usually it\u2019s the heavy and thick lingering smell of 30 different fragrances that black men are fascinated about wearing simultaneously on themselves.\u00a0 There is never an in-between.\u00a0 Regardless, they\u2019re smells that I don\u2019t want to have to smell, especially when there are no less than 18 other available treadmills to have used instead of the ones directly on either side of mine.<\/span><\/p>\n Aside from the complete inconsideration of personal space and treadmill selection etiquette, I think I have a good speculation to why some of these guys are picking the treadmills right next to me \u2013 they see a slightly obese Asian guy pounding away on a treadmill, sweating like\u00a0Patrick Ewing<\/a>, and they think I\u2019m the perfect patsy to make them feel good about themselves when they\u2019re positive that they\u2019ll outrun me with less effort and in shorter time.<\/span><\/p>\n Seriously, my gym has mirrors all over the place, I can see when a guy is trying to be subtle about what speed to set his pace at by peering over at my display screen while pretending to stretch, and it\u2019s happened more than once where guys have literally entered in 0.1 mph faster than the pace I run at, thinking that they\u2019ll naturally be better than I am.\u00a0 Every time, they apparently fail to notice the part where I\u2019ve usually been running for 15-20 minutes, with another 10-15 minutes left to go, and they eventually realize that I\u2019m not doing intervals and that I\u2019m maintaining such a pace throughout my entire duration.<\/span><\/p>\n When I suspect that I\u2019m being used to be measured against, I\u2019ll sometimes up my pace to discourage these campers, and make them possibly regret getting themselves into an invisible race that they have no chance at winning.\u00a0 Today, I was running at 6.5 mph, which is slightly lower than my usual pace, but having run in the Warrior Dash over the weekend, I wanted to give my ankles a little bit of a reprieve.\u00a0 So when the camper on my right started up, and set his treadmill to 6.6 mph, I waited until I was at a nice even new minute, and then bumped my pace up to 7.5 mph.\u00a0 He did not follow suite.<\/span><\/p>\n The greatest satisfaction I get from these guys is when they throw in the towel after usually ten minutes, sometimes 15, but almost never do they run longer than I do.\u00a0 Not only does the satisfaction come from the departure of smells when they leave, it\u2019s also the mental satisfaction that when it comes to running, I own pretty much all of the prissy gym bros with my cardiovascular stamina.<\/span><\/p>\n But seriously, it\u2019s really not cool to camp people who are already running by setting up shop right next to them, especially when there are numerous other treadmills to have run on instead.\u00a0 The next time two people camp me while I\u2019m running, regardless of the fact that I\u2019d take satisfaction at outrunning and owning them and watching them bow out long before I ever would, I\u2019m just going to hit the emergency stop, and be the one to move instead.\u00a0 Frankly, I prefer running with breathable air, over owning people, but having to endure their smells and noises in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When it comes to selecting a treadmill to run on at the gym, it\u2019s my belief that it\u2019s very similar to that of selecting a urinal in the men\u2019s room.\u00a0 In other words, choose the treadmill furthest from another human being, and at the very least, leave a gap of at least one treadmill in … Continue reading Treadmill selection 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![Patrick Ewing<\/a>, and they think I\u2019m the perfect patsy to make them feel good about themselves when they\u2019re positive that they\u2019ll outrun me with less effort and in shorter time.<\/span><\/p>\nSeriously, my gym has mirrors all over the place, I can see when a guy is trying to be subtle about what speed to set his pace at by peering over at my display screen while pretending to stretch, and it\u2019s happened more than once where guys have literally entered in 0.1 mph faster than the pace I run at, thinking that they\u2019ll naturally be better than I am.\u00a0 Every time, they apparently fail to notice the part where I\u2019ve usually been running for 15-20 minutes, with another 10-15 minutes left to go, and they eventually realize that I\u2019m not doing intervals and that I\u2019m maintaining such a pace throughout my entire duration.<\/span><\/p>\nWhen I suspect that I\u2019m being used to be measured against, I\u2019ll sometimes up my pace to discourage these campers, and make them possibly regret getting themselves into an invisible race that they have no chance at winning.\u00a0 Today, I was running at 6.5 mph, which is slightly lower than my usual pace, but having run in the Warrior Dash over the weekend, I wanted to give my ankles a little bit of a reprieve.\u00a0 So when the camper on my right started up, and set his treadmill to 6.6 mph, I waited until I was at a nice even new minute, and then bumped my pace up to 7.5 mph.\u00a0 He did not follow suite.<\/span><\/p>\nThe greatest satisfaction I get from these guys is when they throw in the towel after usually ten minutes, sometimes 15, but almost never do they run longer than I do.\u00a0 Not only does the satisfaction come from the departure of smells when they leave, it\u2019s also the mental satisfaction that when it comes to running, I own pretty much all of the prissy gym bros with my cardiovascular stamina.<\/span><\/p>\nBut seriously, it\u2019s really not cool to camp people who are already running by setting up shop right next to them, especially when there are numerous other treadmills to have run on instead.\u00a0 The next time two people camp me while I\u2019m running, regardless of the fact that I\u2019d take satisfaction at outrunning and owning them and watching them bow out long before I ever would, I\u2019m just going to hit the emergency stop, and be the one to move instead.\u00a0 Frankly, I prefer running with breathable air, over owning people, but having to endure their smells and noises in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to selecting a treadmill to run on at the gym, it\u2019s my belief that it\u2019s very similar to that of selecting a urinal in the men\u2019s room.\u00a0 In other words, choose the treadmill furthest from another human being, and at the very least, leave a gap of at least one treadmill in … Continue reading Treadmill selection etiquette<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,15,52,124],"class_list":["post-38940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-gym","tag-og","tag-owned","tag-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38942,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38940\/revisions\/38942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/basketball\/nba\/news\/2000\/09\/20\/ewing_trade_ap\/t1_ewing_all.jpg\"){kind=link}