Treadmill Drama
Yesterday I was at the Gym. I was doing a particular exercise. It involved a set of pull ups followed by a fast 2min run on the treadmill (i.e. set of pull ups, 2min run, pull ups, 2min run, etc etc). Anyway, I finished the 2min run and left the treadmill rolling on its own. I jogged to the pull up frame some 20 feet away for a set of more pull ups...after the set, I turned towards the treadmill again. As I approached my 'reserved' running machine I thought "Oh No!"...a woman is heading the same direction to use my fast-moving treadmill!!! She was listening to her ipod, and her eyes were fixated on the TV. Well, she stepped onto the rolling treadmill without properly looking at it and sadly got dramatically catapulted back to where she came from, landing on all fours screaming. OOoopss! I felt terrible! Was it my fault to leave the running machine on? It was a mini drama. All ok in the end. We laughed!
posted by Tomasz Schafernaker @ 16:41
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Oh Tomasz! I can really empathise whith you because i have been in similar situations where something i have done (or not done) has lead to someone getting hurt in some way. I once was partly at fault for a woman scraping her car. I felt awful and couldn't stop thinking about it for ages afterwards.
Oh dear!! She should have been watching where she was going. Do treadmills make a lot of noise? I don't know...
At least you went over and apologised and saw that she was all right. Some people wouldn't have been so good natured. Don't feel bad about it Tom - where there is equipment about these things are bound to happen! She obviously forgave you in the end!!
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Ignore the idiots on twitter...they have no brains! And they know who they are! Stay on here with us...we love you for who you are!
Treadmills in any gym I've been in have the equivalent of a "dead man's handle" so they stop automatically when someone is not on them and gripping the handle. In a communal gym I'd have thought this was a basic safety precaution.
The lady may have been unobservant to have stepped on to a moving treadmill, but really I don't think it's to be expected that such a thing would occur. In a more litigious society (the US for example) I'd have expected the gym and/or you to be sued for your lack of consideration.
I am a 'fan' of yours, by the way, but I think basic sense has gone out of the window here. What you might do in your own private gym, should you get one eventually, is your affair of course; in a gym used by other members it's my view that different rules need to apply. Candidly, but cordially :)
Oh no... poor lady! Understandable that you left the machine on while you were busy elsewhere, although she was equally responsible for not checking the machine before she got on (expect the unexpected!)... so I wouldn't feel too guilty [wink]
Anyway I'm glad she laughed about it in the end, and she was alright about it.
Interesting to hear about your exercise regime, you're certainly in great shape to do all that-- I certainly couldn't hack that. Then again I'm all skin and bone [self-aware chortle]
Sorry to hear about those shedheads on Twitter-- you can get some right fraggles on there (why are you looking at me for, [LOL])
sorry, but i have to say that i think thats very bad of you to leave it on when you arent using it. When there is noone on a treadmill then the reasonable expectation is that it is off so i dont blame the lady for stepping on it. She could have been seriously injured particularly if there was another piece of equipment behind the treadmill. It annoys me when Gym users dont remember that other people use the gym and not just them. I could go on......
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The possibility and likelihood that she could have been injured would have been avoided in the first place if she was looking where she was going.
Oh Tomasz...what have you started??!! LOL
Well ideally Tomasz wouldn't have left the machine on, but I'd have to agree with Matt on this one.
In the same way that dog owners should clear up after their mutts... but if I step in dog muck, it's my fault for not looking where I'm going!
Anyway given that the lady laughed about the treadmill incident, I suspect she was of the same view. She was unharmed and alright about it, so all's well that ends well I say.
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