One of the gyms I workout at has been partially closed for a few months while they've added a second story to the workout room. The second story opened recently and this evening I got to experience it for the first time.
It's not like it was a conventional one-story building that had another story added to the top of it, but rather it's a large gymnasium-sized room with very high ceilings, and they stuck another floor in the middle. Difficult to describe. The second floor only covers half the room, so when on the second floor you can look down on the first. Originally, half the room was free weights, and the other half was split between weight machines and running/bicycling type machines. Now, all of the running/bicycling machines are upstairs, and the downstairs is split between free weights and weight machines.
Sorry to go into all of that otherwise useless detail, but how else do I explain that as I'm running, if I look straight ahead and zone out, I feel like I'm running on air? The treadmills are right up against the railing, and I'm thinking the new floor is like 12-15 feet from the ground floor. Add to that the people you see with your peripheral vision walking below, and you've got that air-walking feeling. Weird stuff. Or maybe it's just me.
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