Signs

I believe in signs. I do. I'm not sure who sends them or where they come from but I do believe they exist and are trying to tell us something. You would think the hard part is figuring out what exactly it is the signs are trying to tell you, but that's not the hard part. The hard part is recognizing it's a sign in the first place.

Take last night for example. I love working out at the end of the day because it’s a great way to just let out steam and put the stress of the day behind you. So like most nights these past three weeks, I got home, threw on my gym clothes, grabbed a bottle of water, a clean towel, my gym card, my keys and hit the gym.

That's when the signs began.

First I accidentally knocked my iPod on the floor in the middle of my warm up. It hit the floor with a soft thump and so I had to stop the treadmill, get down, pick iPod up and make sure it was still working. It was. Oufff! I climbed back on the machine and hit restart.

A few minutes later my treadmill stopped. Just like that. It stopped. Right in the middle of the first part of my training. It was highly destabilizing but I gritted my teeth and hit restart. I started mentally calculating the time/calories/distance figures, which the machine usually gives you but which were now warped.

Just as I was beginning to break a sweat my shoelace became untied! I was pretty annoyed by now so I chose to ignore it. But the guy running on the machine next to mine couldn't take his eyes off my shoes and I could see that me "living dangerously" was ruining his concentration. Far be it from me to mess up someone else's workout. So I stopped my treadmill again. Tied shoe with double knot. Restarted treadmill again. Forgot about calories /distance figures and tried to just concentrate on time.

Believe it or not a few minutes later my treadmill stopped again!! Just like that. By this time, my face was all puffed and red and obviously not necessarily because of the exercise I was getting. By then I was royally PO. I changed machines and tried to start all over. But, surprise, surprise... ten minutes later New Machine stopped too.

That was it. I grabbed my stuff and took off.

Sometimes you can't beat the signs.

Fned.