Four o'clock in the morning. I was wide awake. Again.
I'd been staying at this smart Korean hotel for four nights now and I still hadn't got over the jetlag. It was hot and stuffy in my room, even with the window open. I hate sleeping with the air conditioning on so I have to suffer the consequences and bear the sweat and discomfort.
Sometimes I get up and watch a bit of TV. Or maybe read a bit. Or perhaps listen to the radio and hope that will send me off. This time I decided I would get rid of some unwanted energy in the hotel gym.
The gym was right down in the basement. It was well equipped and quite busy at peak times but I had noticed it really thinned out at other times, so this was my chance to get the machines to myself. I pulled on my middle-aged man's Lycra, trainers and headed downstairs.
The hotel, huge as it was, seemed deserted at this hour. It was a little late for evening revelers and too early for the morning rush. I was in a No-Man's-Land time zone.
The gym was open twenty-four hours and I let myself in with my room key. The lights snapped on as I entered and my eyes got a bit of a shock with the intensity of the lighting. But the room was empty of people and I had the machines all to myself.
I crossed over to the far wall, mirrored from top to bottom, where there was a bank of running machines. I dragged myself onto one in the middle and set it going. Soon I was running, lost in my thoughts but still not at all sleepy. Damn.
About five or ten minutes into my run I was woken from my zombie reverie by the noise of the door-lock activating. I glanced ahead of me and in the mirror saw the door open behind me. A woman, also in tight-fitting Lycra sports-gear, entered the room. She had on a base-ball cap over her dark hair. She was wearing tight, thigh-length shorts, light grey with a curving pink stripe, and a looser light burgundy singlet over a dark sports bra. She looked well tanned, Mediterranean perhaps, certainly not Asian or Northern European. I guessed her to be in her thirties, early forties perhaps, very trim; no stranger to a gym then.
She clocked me straight away and did that thing of ignoring me and carrying on about her business, even though we were the only two people in the room, maybe the only two guests awake at this time of the morning.
I carried on running, watching her in the mirror, trying not to make it obvious that I was keeping tabs on her.
She started at the back of the room with some stretches. Damn, she had a terrific physique. She wasn't especially tall but she had good, firm legs with an even tan on the exposed skin. She looked strong without being muscular; she would look great in a long dress. As she reached up to stretch to the ceiling, I could see that the sports bra was having to cope with quite a considerable chest. She was well endowed there, no doubt about it.
After her warm-up, she approached the running machines. Which one to choose though? To use the one furthest away from me would seem like a snub. But obviously she couldn't use the one next to me either -- too forward. So she tried the one two machines away first... only to discover that it was a system she hadn't used before and she didn't know how to operate it.
She stood toying with it for a bit and then shot me a couple of glances.
I slowed my run down to a walk.
"Can I help?" I asked.
"Si, gracias," she replied. Aha. Spanish. Or maybe South American? Who knows?
She stepped over to the machine next to mine and I talked her through the operation and in no time at all she was up and walking.
"Can't sleep either?" I ventured.
"Si... it's the jetlag," she replied with a smile. Nice smile too, very pretty teeth. Nice big eyes too under that cap. And freckles. Her voice was low and sexy, like a smoker's.
"Yeah, me too," I said. "I hope a bit of exercise will help me get off." Hmm. That didn't quite come out right... although, in retrospect...
We continued in silence for a bit, side by side, me running and her walking on various inclines.
My programme ended and I got off the machine. I fetched a small towel and wiped myself and the machine down. I grabbed a drink of water from the dispenser. Then I headed to some of the weight machines.
The first one I chose was for the triceps; I adjusted the weights and sat on the stool. I hadn't actually meant to set it up like this, but I found myself staring almost straight at the Spanish woman as she walked. I was directly behind her, hidden from her sight in the mirror by her own body so I had an unobstructed view and therefore a chance to give her a detailed look-over.
On closer inspection her skin-tight shorts were almost sheer, so that I could see the line and color of a black thong underneath, separating her butt cheeks. Watching these cheeks move as she walked was a thing of beauty. They were firm, yes, but they undulated majestically as she strode, stretching the material with each step. The back of her legs was smooth and a gorgeous coffee color. She was in great shape.
I pushed out several reps on the machine while I scrutinized her and then realized I would really have to move or she would rumble me. So move I did, on to the next machine.
Presently her own workout on the treadmill came to an end and she stepped off it. She was glowing now; I think that's what they call it when a woman works up a light sweat. As she turned back into the room, I could see that her face was a delightful pink.
She took off the baseball cap and mopped her brow. Her lovely dark hair dropped around her shoulders. She tossed her cap on the floor in the corner where she had put her electronic door-key. She tried tying her hair up in a make-shift bun at the back of her head but strands kept coming loose.
I realized that the air conditioning in the gym was not working especially well. It was actually a bit stuffy in here too. I hadn't really noticed before now, until I had seen her look so puffed. We were both 'glistening' quite a bit by now.
She crossed to the water machine and bent over for a drink. Again I was treated to a wonderful view of that great ass as the material stretched thin on her backside. Well, this was certainly a turn for the better.
Now she started some reps on the weight machines too, clinking the weights as she adjusted the pin and settling herself onto the stool.
It was crazy; I don't know how it started. The room wasn't small, there was plenty of equipment about, but we seemed to fall into some kind of rhythm. She happened to begin right opposite me, on a machine designed to exercise the pectoral muscles. So she has gripping the bars either side of her body and squeezing them inwards. But by doing so, she was inadvertently thrusting out her chest between reps; those glorious boobs were jutting proudly out at me with each rep.
I, meanwhile, was busy pulling down on an overhead bar, my biceps bulging with the strain. Without realizing it, we fell into a sort of rhythm, timing each pull and jerk in concert with each other.
I think I must have noticed that she had become aware of me about the same time I clocked that we were in sync. Her breath was coming out in gusts with the effort, little high-pitched squeaks. I was similarly noisy; low, guttural grunts. If you had closed your eyes, it would have sounded like we were having really energetic sex.
I almost laughed out loud. I had to stop... and she stopped too. We got up and moved to different machines at the same time, almost nervously pacing around each other, without looking one another in the eye.
I now selected a bench at a downward angle that held my legs high up in place while I did abdominal crunch sit-ups. Nothing wrong there.
Except that, as I came up on my first crunch, I looked straight ahead and saw that she had chosen a weights machine directly opposite, one that strengthens the thighs by requiring you to squeeze your legs together.
So now, every time I managed to curl upwards, I was greeted by the sight of her releasing her legs and opening her thighs, right in front of me. I was unable to do anything but stare straight into her crotch. It took just two reps for me to clock the most gorgeous camel toe in the fabric between her legs, so close did the tight material hug her body.
Well, after only two or three more of these sit-ups, the erotic nature of the whole set-up took hold of my imagination and my cock began to stiffen. Now, this was really awkward, because I was only wearing a pair of Lycra swim-and-run shorts, no underwear, and, to make it worse, the angle of the bench meant that, as I lowered myself back down, my groin was thrusting straight upwards. All she had to look at was my gradually enlarging shorts; the bulging silhouette would have been unmistakable.