19290902 09:21:48

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19290902 09:21:48

His body gave the highest resistance when he first pulled the tethered bar down to his chest, and once he had finally pulled it close enough to make it physically touch his body, he held it there for several seconds, feeling the breath flush out of his nostrils as if he was trying to dislodge something inside. Ridgeland did in fact have the sensation that he wanted to cough or spit something up, but nothing came of it. If this was suffering from the amount of drinking that he did last night, he though the excuse to be surprising, as he was sure that he had taken more in on other nights without this kind of sensation, and he felt that he had balanced his alcohol with water. Both of these stipulations were in fact true, but he still felt groggy regardless. Finally, he summoned the will to relax his arm muscles to let the handlebar hover over his head, then pull it back down towards him in repeated strokes.
"You sure you don't want to just get some steam off first?" Roger sat still with the free weights resting on his sides upon the bench where he sat.
"No, Roger, I'm fine, I need to get myself going first before then."
"Yeah yeah OK, OK. Uhrm, what all did you do last night?"
"Nothin special." Ridgeland kept rhythm in pulling the handlebar down.
"Yeah? Who with? Was that one choir boy with you?"
Upon hearing the question, Ridgeland accidentally let the handlebar slip from his fingers, causing the counterweight to fall down in a harsh strike to the ground. He felt his teeth grind and roll around his lips before he answered.
"No. He got to go on vacation."
"Oh, hah, really? Wow. Gone gone on vacation? That never happens. I mean, I've never heard you bein able to take a break and get away somewhere."
"Right." Ridgeland's response here came as a grunt, as he did so while sitting up to reach for the handlebar and take it back down to him again.
"Heh. Wonder what makes him so special."
At this point, the two men resumed their exercises and said nothing more to each other for the next half hour until they agreed to retire to the steam room.