Albany's Finest.

I am by no means, a gym regular. I go at least 4 days a week for the past 4-5 weeks. Maybe if I've been going 6 days a week for 6 months I'd be one, but I'm not there yet. One day.

With that said, I do go enough to see people there who attend regular sessions. I don't like to think I have obsessive tendencies with watching other people, but when you're on the elliptical for an hour and your songs are getting old on your ipod, you're to blind to see the TV, and you'd do anything for a cheeseburger-people watching is a good option.

You would imagine I'd spend all of my time focusing on the guys at the gym. Well...maybe if there were guys who were:

1. Not 12
2. Showered this week
3. Not native to Albany ( no offense).

The list of people who I focus on I find interesting, and you might to.

First, there is the pregnant lady. She's there almost every day I am, so she's probably there the days I am not too. She's about my height and VERY, VERY, VERY thin-especially for being pregnant. She's the true reason I ever made it to running an hour on the elliptical. I came in one night and she had already been on an elliptical, when my half hour was up...she was still running. I can't be shown up by a pregnant woman. Stupid. I find I have anger towards this woman..GO HOME AND EAT SOME ICE CREAM STOP WORKING OUT. Ugh. I find I have this same anger towards my pregnant sister=)

Second. There is an older guy...maybe mid 60's. He had a problem with his leg and had one crutch. I've seen him about 5 times. He does one leg squats. OH MY GOSH. I can't even do a squat hardly and he's doing them on one leg? Thank you and goodnight.

Third. There are simple rules at our gym. If your kids are under 12 they need to be supervised. Most times there are little kids doing their homework at the table. However, this rule should read:

Kids under 12 must be supervised UNLESS they are boys ages 13-16. They think it's really fun to turn the treadmills up as fast as they go and see how long they can stay on...ANNOYING.

Third. This is a true story.

I was about 10 minutes into my hour on the ellipicatal and in comes one of Albany's finest. She was cute, had a camo hat on, BIG gold hopop earrings. Nails long enough to creep anyone out and wasn't wearing much of anything else....and she was cute, just not that cute.

So She had a bag and I figured she'd change and start a workout. WRONG. She hopped on the tredmill just like that...hat, hoops and all....WHAT? And she ran, and ran, and ran. And 30 minutes later one of her earrings went flying off at which point she decided to call it quits.

Really....who goes out looking like that...who goes to the GYM like that?

And last but not least my new favorite. A couple came in last night and they were wearing matching track suits....oh Albany.