Stupid jogger!

So I came to the gym 20 min early yesterday to have time to go for a quick run on the treadmill, before starting lifting weights with my sweet friend. It is always very busy around 6pm, and it is always extra busy now in the beginning of the university year (everyone buys a card and goes there a few times, naïvely trying to improve oneself - this slows down after 1.5 months or so after school start).

There are four treadmills in the main gym room, and they were all taken when I got there. There is a rather sizeable sign hanging over the treadmills, stating "jogging max 10 min". I looked at the timers on the machines, and one of the guys was up in 10 min and 36 seconds *me rubbing hands*.

I went over to him and asked him if he was finished soon (a fairly diplomatic way of saying, "your time's up, get the hell out of here"). He was panting heavily, running quickly, so I imagine only replying to my question was quite exhausting on top of the running. To my very diplomatic question, he answers "I still have 5 minutes" while holding up 5 fingers emphasizing his statement.

Ok, so pure manipulative diplomacy didn't work. I took it to the next level; i.e. stating the obvious, but in a friendly way. So I go "you know you're only allowed to run for 10 minutes, it says there on the sign". He continues running very quick, and I am not getting the impression that my disturbing him helps at all. For me, there is no answer to my question, but to remove yourself from the treadmill. But to him, apparently, this was not true to him. He had an answer.

Or should I perhaps say "answer".

He replied "but the clock is not showing the right time, since I walked the first 5 minutes".
I didn't quite know what to say to this stupid comment. Does he really think that he should take the "jog"-part of the sign so seriously, instead of realising that it means "whatever you choose to do on the treadmill, we don't care about, as long as you make yourself scarce when your 10 min are up". Does he interpret it as he would be fine with the four treadmills being taken by four people having walked on them for 2 h and 30 minutes? Or say three of those walkers, and one person having walked 10 minutes, been running 10 minutes, been strutting for another 10, and doing cardiopulmonary excersie for an additional 10 min, and THEN gone for a jogged for 7 minutes - can he still stay another 3 minutes.

After this my options were:
1. Take the discussion to the next level, i.e. tell him in plain words to get the hell off my treadmill
2. Get one of the instructors to throw him off
3. Go find myself another treadmill in one of the other gym rooms, and blog about it later.

I was not in the mood of getting angry with him, and I didn't feel like being the "bitch" that got the instructor to throw him off. I just felt like giving him an off glance, relying on him knowing that what he did was wrong (and hopefully feeling bad about it, having thrown such an innocently looking pretty girl out of there), and find myself another treadmill. Which I did shortly thereafter, but now with 5 min less time to spend on the machine, and me being annoyed.

Ah well, I had an excuse for only running 15 minutes (this was allowed on the treadmill that I found), instead of my planned 20. I was planning on using one of those 10-min treadmills, you see, and then taking another one for the next 10 min. But now I know I don't have to do this, you can just redefine the pace you choose to use on the treadmill, and get away with it on a technicality. Thanks a lot stupid runner!

I need more synonyms for "jogging"...