Please keep this in mine while reading this blog entry:

- Yes, I am 42 years old, no I'm not a teenager, stop rolling your eyes

- Yes, I move slowly, stop rolling your eyes

- Yes, I'm a wuss, stop rolling your eyes

After many long years, I finally had the opportunity to exchange words with my Gym Crush. I'm as giddy as a school girl over the experience. You see, I've had a crush on this guy for over 3 years. I looked back over my blog entries and found these 3, all about him:

Sleuthing success, I got his name January 2010

Borderline Stalking May 2009

Cute guy from spinng class Nov 2007

I had resolved in my head a while ago that he's either straight or not interested, and/or both. Since then, I've been actively ignoring him (you know, like making a point of looking away when I passed him). He's not really chatty at the gym with anyone (guys or girls), so I figured that's just the way he was.

Well this week, I just kept running into him over and over. Our gym schedules synced up more than they have in the past and I wasn't even trying (e.g. stalking). It was painfully frustrating. I kinda relaxed my active ignoring and thought that if it were to occur naturally, that I would say something to him.

Well today when I started my workout, I wanted to do bicep pullups and he was using the equipment I wanted. I visibly *sighed* when I realized he was on the machine, so I started walking around a bit to give him time to finish. After a few minutes, I thought he was done, so I went over, but found he was just resting. So I spoke my first words to him and asked him how many more sets he had and he said '1'. I nodded, and then he added with a smile "You're welcome to work out in between'". So I took him up on his offer and did 12 pullups (I usually do 10 in a set, but needed to show my butchness to him and did an extra 2 ). I let him do his next set and he moved on to another part of the gym while I stayed and did 3 more sets.

So I was happy/satisfied with that little encounter, but unbeknownst to me at the time, there was more to come.

I did more bicep work, but I was really just waiting to take a spin (cycle) class. Surprisingly, Gym Crush took that class too (I hadn't expected him to take the class because he had already taken two spin classes that week, and he had been in the gym before I even got there.

He was behind me about 15 feet - just off to the right, so I pretty much had a perfect view of him in the mirrors for the entire class. He's such good eye candy . I did really well in class because I didn't want to seem like a wuss to him, hoping my calf muscles were flexing at the right times.

Well after class, several of us were heading in to the locker room. I was chatting with another guy from the class - Richard, and we both ended up near each other in the locker room, right near Gym Crush. I mentioned to Richard how tired I was and that I shouldn't have taken this class because I was planning on running tomorrow (friday) with my running crew. He teased me a bit and I invited him to go running with us at 5am. Richard is chatty with Gym Crush so he loudly says, "Oh yeah, Gym Crush and I will be there at 5am, just wait for us". He winked and let it be known that there was no way he'd get up that early to go running and that we were 'crazy' to be up that early to run.

Well Gym Crush joins in the convo and then says to me "You really run at 5am?"

I go onto explain about how the running group has been going there for years, how there's people of different speeds, etc. Actually, once I started talking to Gym Crush, I kinda got that nervous/diarrhea of the mouth thing going, and just talked and talked. Kinda like how Dave got whenever he talked to Angela in Dessert Dropping. When I get nervous talking to someone I'm attracted to, I just blah blah blah away. I'm hoping I didn't spit when I talked to him :wacko: .

So anyway, he seem genuinely interested in finding people to run with and was smiling when we talked. The morning time might be tough for him (he asked if there was a 5pm group. I should have said, "Honey, I'll run whenever you want to run.") But I did just try to be helpful and inviting.

So anyhow, I went and took my shower, and he ended up showering a little later than me, so I finished before him. I took my time getting dressed to wait for him to finish his shower so we could chat more.

When he got back, I mentioned that yeah, the early hour is tough for many, and that the 5am was an 'Acquired taste', but I also let him know I'd see if I could find an evening group I could hook him up with. I just wanted to make sure I sounded genuine and that I wasn't making an empty invitation.

By the way, he was in a towel while we were talking and I made a point of giving him his privacy and not looking at him (especially when he had to put on his undies). One, I didn't want to get busted staring, and two, I would want the same courtesy.

On my way out, I made of point of telling him my name and he gave me his with a smile, told him "see ya later" and let him finish getting dressed.

So after three long years, we've finally spoken. I have no clue if he's gay. And if he is gay, I have no clue if he'd be interested in going out on a date, with me. Either way, I'm just happy we've taken the 'next step'.

Cause no matter what happens, it would be cool to have a new friend who's around my age, who seems to be interested in the same fitness activities that I'm into, and isn't internet/virtual (no offense to any of y'all). If we could have a friendship, I'd be satisfied with that.

I sure hope it doesn't take 3-4 years to find out if he's gay or not .

Take Care®,

Vic