Level 13

Apparently Level 13 is a little too high for a StairMaster.. you guessed it.. I fell of the StairMaster today at the gym.  It was a pretty terrifying experience.  I mean it started out okay I was just trekking along on this machine and thought to myself, this is way too easy (first mistake), so I started increasing the level (second mistake). When I got to 13 I decided to stop and see what happened (third mistake) and after about 30 seconds my quads really started to burn.  It was then that I decided to attempt to turn it down (fourth mistake) but that turned out to be impossible.  I could not focus on anything except the stairs because they were coming so fast and after several failed attempts at slapping the screen to stop it I fell off.  My earphones were ripped out of my ears and I almost threw my wallet over the railing but I'm alive so we're all good.  For the record, those machines are much higher than they look or I'm just really short, most likely a combination of the two.  I think we all learned a valuable lesson here.. I'm bad a stairs and don't take on more than you can handle.  Hope your Monday was spectacular.