A few weeks ago I was in Mystic, CT for work. While I was there I decided to use the gym at the hotel. I did maybe four times. It was a very quaint gym. Nothing fancy by any means but it had your basics. I stuck to using the treadmills after I realized the elliptical was broken. I am sure of this because I tried to use it for 10 mins and the damn screen never lit up...
Now I'm not normally one for treadmills... I prefer the elliptical or stationary bike because you have less of a chance of looking like a monkey trying to run.... or like this picture...
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But I had to say, treadmill number 2 was pretty sweet. It had its own personal tv! And even though I spent countless hours perfecting the most amazing gym playlist ever, I ended up watching episodes of "Friends" and "How I Met Your Mother". (And by episodes, I mean one episode per gym visit... the episode varied on what time I got to the gym... I didn't want you to think I ran for more than a half hour, because that's just silly.)
After successfully using the treadmill for a few sessions, I decided I should treat myself to new pair of running shoes... the kind that are nice and squishy and make you think you're running on a cloud.
So... I buy said running shoes. Go to hotel gym. Get on treadmill number 2. Put room key card in convenient nook on treadmill. Put on headphones. Grab water bottle. Realize I need water. Take off headphones. Walk to water cooler.
Now let me help you with this image...
I'm on the treadmill.
I need to fill my water bottler.
I walk to water cooler.
I'm ON the treadmill.
Do you see where this is going?
Yup. I walked right to the part of the treadmill that rolls and fell off oh-so-gracefully....
But gracefully, I wish! Instead my left ankle bent in this weird direction and my right knee buckled, causing me to fall forward. I then skidded across the carpeted gym floor, solely on my right knee cap. After coming to a stop and falling back on my ass.... I started laughing. Here I was, sitting sort of Indian-style with my knee all scrapped up and bloody and my ankle feeling a little tweaked. And why was my knee all bloody? Because I FELL OFF A TREADMILL! Who does that? Me. Unfortunately, these sort of things happen to me quite frequently... usually in a room full of people who I want to run and hide from after.
Then looked around and suddenly it dawned on me; no one was in the gym to witness all this. I could not believe it. So I sat there for a few more seconds, made sure my ankle was not broken or sprained and that I wasn't going to bleed to death. Then I decided to actually do what I came to do.... run.
And run I did... for about a minute. I was doing good, clicking my way to the channel so I could watch "Friends", when out of nowhere this random guy comes running to the glass door of the gym. He ran around all panic-like in the hall outside the gym and then settled his search on me.
The first thought in my head... he must have seen my epic fall via the window that faces the parking lot... and then I assumed he was still standing there amazed that from that epic fall, I not only survived... but I was running on the treadmill! After a few more seconds of random guy creepily staring thru the glass door, he left.... At that point, whether random guy had seen me fall or not, I had had enough of that damn treadmill! I carefully got off the treadmill and went back to my room.
The end.
Updated: I assume this is what someone would've seen...
