We’re getting bigger!

The certainty of seeing Cholo for the first time this year gave me the spring in most of my activities last Saturday.

I woke up late than usual, my mind entirely pre-occupied with the images and expectations of the meeting that would happen that day. How could I miss an event so bad that I have not yet been into?

Cholo and I. Bromantic!

I used for the first time my “home plus one” at the Fitness First branch in Eastwood City, where he is working. The additional 400 pesos of my entire four-month enrollment at the gym would simply account to seeing my long-lost buddy.

As I walked in the lounge, my head turned left to right, my feet here and there, just to see a glimpse of the skinhead before heading to the locker room. He’s nowhere to be found and I did not dare to ask where he is.

But there he was after I changed to workout apparels.

The perfectly shaven head sparkled as it hit the fluorescent light. The sleeves of his PT t-shirt hugged his larger-than-ever biceps. His height of 5’4” hasn’t changed.  That’s Cholo all right!

We met with our eyes. Wish I could give him the biggest hug possible, but it’s impossible as I don’t want to give other people the wrong idea of our brotherly relationship. The extent of the smile from his end was all about sweet nothing. I smiled back, our souls connected once again.

For my entire workout period, we were talking cautiously about our missing from each other—about how we stepped in becoming a personal trainer, to how we fell in love with running, to how the not-so bitter relationship with his girlfriend ended.

By 2:00PM we went to MOMO Restaurant at the Eastwood Mall for high-protein lunch. We talked about our schedules for some of the upcoming running events.

We bid the sweetest goodbye afterwards.

Bora night and getting wasted.

Cholo and I have already run the long distance of maturity, but not yet stepping on the finish line. I hope the friendship that is instilled would give us the endurance to strongly run the longer distance we call life.

We’re getting bigger!

By the way, Cholo is presently a Silver personal trainer of Fitness First – Eastwood City. He would really appreciate if YOU could be one of his clients in personal training. See him there and ask for his excellent fitness training services.