Day 15/67 Men in unitards

Lying in bed after the alarm went off at 6am today, I was thinking about the funny things people do in the gym, the different styles we use on the machines- on the step machine there is the slow stepping bunch , and the mincers, who dance on hot coals, and those who almost run.  On the rowing ergos, there are those who do twisty moves, and those who row short strokes, and some who look like they have actually been on water. And on the treadmill, there are some who walk or run up massive inclines, some who run really fast, and others who walk-run. 

I was standing behind the spinning cycles, wondering at the gender politics of spinning, where the avatar cycling- just like you on your bike-on the screen is always a man in a unitard. Are you watching yourself, or watching a nicely muscled guy? The amazing thing is that we can all be in that space and feel quite unselfconscious. We can do just as much as we can, however we can.

I can feel my fitness improving- it is getting harder to get the heart rate up, even to the point where the machine says in rude upper case ATTENTION THE HEART RATE IS HIGH.

Clearly the gym machines haven't been groomed in appropriate social media manners.