Would you borrow used workout gear?

Some people work out much more often than we do. Which means that, when we travel without our workout clothes, it's no big deal, but for them? According to one daily runner, "it's life altering."

Starting next week, road warriors who can't cope without their workout but can't remember to pack their togs (or can't bear to bring dirty stuff back with them) can borrow some if they stay at a Westin hotel. The catch: Someone else used it first.

The hotel says that the loaner work-out clothes (Capri pants, a sports bra, shirt, socks and shoes for women, and a shirt, shorts, socks and shoes for men) will be washed the same way that the hotel washes their linens and towels-in super-hot water-and the inner soles of the shoes will be replaced between guests.

But still, the ick factor remains high. It's bad enough to have to wipe a stranger's sweat off of a machine in the gym before you use it; what do you do when you're wearing their workout clothes?

Maybe it depends on the work out.

"Running socks aren't very intimate compared with bed sheets and towels," 31-year-old Jenn Blazejewski, a management consultant who runs daily and travels four times a week, told The Wall Street Journal. "If I forget to pack my running socks, that's life altering," she added. "A runner needs socks as much as another guest needs toothpaste, and it would be great if the hotel stocked them."

But we think there's a pretty big difference between wearing someone else's freshly washed running socks and slipping into a previously used sports bra. And what about already worn Capri pants, given the popularity of thongs and other barely-there underwear-and the prevalence of people who don't wear underwear at all?

So far, the new perk (or, some might say, the "ewww" perk) doesn't seem to be all that popular. During a two-month-long test, a Westin hotel in Chicago put cards in guest rooms that said "New Balance now provides Westin guests with shoes and athletic wear. Simply call for delivery to your room." Only about one guest per day requested the gear. (We haven't seen the cards ourselves, so we're wondering: Did they mention that the togs weren't new?)

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