Staying Fit...And Life Along the Way: Freaks come out at night

Last nights gym experience truly deserves a blog entry. That's all I could think the whole time I was there...I've got to write about this.
Ok so where do I even start, let me back up a little bit. The weekend was busy, especially Sunday. A hot afternoon at the pumpkin patch, followed by costume/decoration shopping, and lastly pumpkin decorating. I was asleep on the couch by 9. When my alarm went off at 5am Monday morning I knew there was no way I was getting up, I needed a morning to sleep in. I had been looking forward to Monday's arm workout tho (I know I'm a nerd) so I decided I wouldn't miss the day entirely, I would just go after work. Now I am well aware that 5pm is not only rush hour on I-80 but also in the gym, but I figured one pm session wouldn't kill me.
Fromt the moment I walked in the door it was total and complete chaos, there were people everywhere! Thank goodness I had no intentions of doing cardio, because every machine was taken. I made my way upstairs to the weights, I had never seen so many people up there before. Sheesh, over to the free weights I go, stood around waiting for someone to give up a bench, claimed it with my water bottle before I went over to find out what weights I could scrounge up. I will say this, the only good thing to this session was that I was the ONLY female lifting, so I never had to wait for the 20lb or 15lb weights, the guys around me were lifting MUCH heavier. Much heavier, with sound effects, slamming weights and all. While I rested between sets I would just people watch. Man it was like a gym scene from a movie. I felt so out of place. Not because I can't hold my own, trust me I know what I'm doing, but I missed my am regulars. When I go in the morning it's an older crowd 50's 60's and the people there before work, It's calm its relaxed, it flows.
I felt like I was hoarding equipment last night. Like I was some little scavenger running around grabbing what I could when it was free. Running over to the cable machine as soon as someone walked away, claiming benches with my shaker bottle. It was like a mad dash around the gym to make sure I got in my full workout. I couldn't help but laugh to myself becuase I seemed to be the only one concerened with doing my workout in order and just getting the heck out of there.
In between sets of grunting, everyone else just stood around and talked, and these were not converastions I needed to be a part of. Men in a gym, you know what they were talking about. Jeez talk about akward. Haha. And this totally could just be in my head, but I could picture these guys looking at me taking up precious space in an already crowded gym and thinking, "what does this girl think she's doing, get down to the elliptical where you belong." haha.
Well they couldn't get rid of me, I stuck it out and got through my whole workout, and I don't think I'll ever substitute a pm workout for a missed am one. It was so nice to be back in there this morning with my regular. I don't know how those pm people do it, it's a jungle out there.
And in case your wondering here's what I did last night (It kicked my butt, my arms are DEAD today):

Arms/Abs