Locker Room Etiquette

On Friday I met my goal of working out three times last week. I have decided that I am too unorganized to be athletic. Every other time I get inside the gym all ready to workout I find myself going back out to the car because I forgot something. Normally it is my iPod but Friday I left my running shoes so instead of heading back out in the cold I decided just walk on the treadmill.

Once in the locker room I tried very hard to stick to my "look only at the floor" rule. It has been about a year since I graduated from the family locker room. It gives me the willies if I happen to be going potty and I hear a dad blow drying his daughter's hair, that's weird. In the women's locker room you have to deal with women that are very comfortable with their bodies. It is just rude, plain and simple. I saw a woman wearing a cable-knit turtle neck sweater and no bottoms at all. She walked bare bottomed into the sauna. I don't know what the dress code is for the sauna and now I don't want to know.

Today, President's Day my husband and the three boys all went to the gym. It was so nice to have all of us in one place. Reagan, 5, went to childcare and Bill and the teen boys played basketball. I enjoyed over 30 minutes of treadmill time. I had just moved to the stair-master when the boys and Bill announced that the field house was closed due fumes from a busted light. It was too good to be true that I could workout an hour or more knowing that my family was under one roof burning calories.