making friends

i've been working out/exercising at the same gym for two years now. and since i am i guess what you could call a regular, i've come to see/recognize a lot of the other "regulars" at the gym. since we regulars are usually too into our workout regimine to be social and usually aren't there to attract those of the opposite sex, one doesn't get to be on a first name basis with another. every saturday, i go to the 9 a.m. spin class and follow it up with the 10 a.m. yoga class. there are about 4 or 5 of us that do this routine every week--we bring our yoga mats and our change of clothes along with water, gatorade and power bars. today, after several weeks of going through this with one particular girl, we became friends. "my name's brittney," she said. so i of course returned the gesture. "we might as well become friends if we're gonna get naked in front of each other," she said next. i laughed. funny but true. we obviously have some of the same interests and being friends will get us past that awkwardness of changing in front of someone you don't know.