Week 4

I went back to the Rec on Thursday, February 21, 2008 around 12:18pm.

I walked in and sat on the bench, and noticed that the attendant was different from the previous week. A few minutes later a girl I knew from high school walked over to me and asked me why do I have a notebook, I just told her I was taking notes for one of my classes and immediately she knew what I was talking about because we have the same class but different teachers.

Right now it is pretty quiet in here. There are no more than twelve people in here. There are two females on the ab machines, they must be friends because they are carrying on a conversation about the oncoming break. One girl is on the stairmaster sweating heavily, another girl is on the elliptical practically running while listening to her headphones. There is an older guy around the age of sixty sitting on an arm machine looking lost and sweaty. In front of the mirror is a small petite girl working her arms using a bench press bar with ten pounds on each end. A guy is next to her doing the same except he has about fifteen pounds on each end. There are two women on the treadmill going at their own pace, and two girls are on the bikes.

A hippie guy is on an oblique bench with a fifty pound weight in his hands. He looks pretty strong; now he moves along to a bar that is in the air and uses his upper body strength to pull his legs toward his stomach working his lower abs.

Ten minutes later I leave out.