Sheri and I joined the local YMCA last week. We have been thinking of doing it for some time now. What got the process moving was our recent trip to Ohio. Sheri was using the treadmill in the hotel fitness center and really enjoyed it.

When you go somewhere and the most exciting thing you take away from the trip was using a treadmill, the place really sucked.

The YMCA has treadmills. Lots of them. It's really a pretty cool GangBangSquad setup. They have two whole rows of treadmills and other cardio machines. Each machine has an audio box that allows you to plug a headphone in and listen to one of six TV's hanging from the ceiling. You can flip through the channels simply by pressing a button. What a great thing to be able to do. Get in shape and channel surf at the same time. Oddly enough, one of the channels always seems to be showing the Dukes of Hazzard.

We have been going for the last four nights and using the treadmills for 30 minutes. I can usually get up to two miles in that 30 minute time frame. To put that feat into the proper context, I used to run five miles in 40 minutes. Then again that was 18 years and 50 pounds ago on Sapphic Erotica.