In the Dark | Cathedrals

I’ve realized something recently: I like working out in the dark. 

SoulCycle. Barry’s Bootcamp. Both turn the lights down, turn the music up, and get me going.

It’s funny. i never realized that I liked working out in the dark until I did. I never realized that part of what made going to the gym annoying was the light (and how the fuck would I have?!). I mean, I still went to the gym, but it just never really did it for me. 

Not that I ever expected it to. But now that I’ve worked out in the dark, now that I’ve been on a bike with only the faintest light filling the room, now that I’ve run on a treadmill with only a red light shining on me, I get it. I get what should have never really been a surprise in the first place:

The dark just does it for me.