Building a Better Jay

While doing my little bit of HIIT post-w/o today, I noticed something that was, well, distracting.  Let me preface this by saying I am so not a perv.  OK, now that you all think I am a perv, let me explain.  

A woman jumped on one of the ellipticals in front of me.  She looked to be in fairly good shape.  She was wearing some tight-fitting black pants and a sports-bra.  I didn’t think anything of it or hardly pay any attention to be honest, until she started bouncing up and down.  When someone is bouncing, I notice some things.   I will notice if some flab starts bouncing independantly of the rest of their body.  I will notice if they are bouncing excessively (ie odd form while running, for example) or not at all (excellent running form or leaning forward and supporting all their weight on the elliptical).  I will also notice when a pink tag is hanging out from your panties, contrasted nicely against your black pants - which is what was happening this morning.

I was trying not to look because I was certain someone would think I was checkin’ out her bum, but I couldn’t tear my eyes off of her pink wagging tail - it was hypnotic in its rhythmic bouncing.  Seriously, that thing was bouncing at twice the frequency of the rest of her body.  I could read she wore size M and the color made me believe she wore VS panties.  That got me thinking that they were probably very uncomfortable.  I know I can’t wear "normal" underwear during cardio (TMI?) because of the seams causing chaffing.  So there I am trying to concentrate on the timing of my intervals and all I can think about is a pink wagging tail and the chaffing associated with it.  I so badly wanted to blurt out, "Damnit, woman, put your panty tag back in your pants!!"  I just couldn’t bring myself to do it.  I only had another interval anyway, so I closed my eyes and pushed through.

So, the moral of this story - keep it tucked in!

This week has been crazy.  I am definitely going to have to go to Germany on business in mid-April for 2 weeks.  This sucks.  My family needs to stay here, so it’s just me and some business colleagues.  My schedule will be packed full with meetings from 9-5 and then dinner meetings.  On top of that, I’ll have to somehow clone myself and travel to another part of Germany for another meeting during one of my other meetings.  When I figure that out, I’ll let you know.  

Fortunately, I’ve learned that there are a few gyms around where I’ll be staying (near Stuttgart) so I should be able to get in some workouts if I can manage to escape work while the gyms are open.  Unfortunately, my hotel does not have a gym (but does have internet access which means at least I can visit bb.com in the evenings or early mornings).  If anyone knows of another cool gym in the Ditzingen area, please let me know!  I can drive a bit to a gym, but I’d rather take the S-bahn.  (Parking in Germany is not fun, typically.)  I’ve already learned of the Powerhouse in west Stuttgart and I found this one: Corpus Fitness (sorry, only auf Deutsch), but the hours suck.  I can always just run, but I’d like to get some gym time in if possible.  You don’t build muscle while running….  (Which sucks, ’cause I could easily look like Arnold - the old Arnold, not Gov. Arnold - if it did.)