The newfound popularity of the indoor rower in trendy neighborhoods in at least a couple cities has created inevitable friction at the gyms, not least among the machines themselves. "It's Over!" said a tearful Modelle Dee after a recent convert to the erg was found back on a stationary bike in a conventional spinning class. "I thought his heart [monitor] was mine forever, but he was just pulling my chain."
Friends of the rower, however, were quick to pass this off as a temporary setback in their sometimes turbulent relationship , "Look, we've all cross-trained a bit on the side," one admitted, referring to a widely-reported fling with a NordicTrack he'd met in a steamy hotel fitness center, "but we always come back to our ergs in the end."
That wasn't good enough for one of Dee's friends who glared at the cameras of the swarming paparazzi, declaring, "Cheating on your erg is dumb. We have monitors; we will find out. Hell hath no fury like an ergometer scorned!"
A former coxswain at the rowing club where the two met—speaking on condition that we use only her first and last name— commented, "Their relationship was always a bit back and forth. They would argue about everything, damper settings, wattage, you name it."
The indiscretion came to light when Dee discovered that workout logs in the rower's PlayTheField training app had been done on "other machines."
(Row2k.com features more from this writer in Believers in the Stern.
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