The reasons vary. We have personal records to set or a pair of running shoes that are in dire need of attention. Some of us are looking for a socially acceptable reason to blast Miley Cyrus on our iPods and wear form-fitting spandex in the daytime. A handful of us are tired of being (supposedly) the lone San Franciscan in the room running less than ten miles a day. A few, like this writer, cite all of the above. 

USA Today has an interesting, if maybe inadvertently stereotypical article, about the infallibility of Asian Americans and Asian immigrants in this economy. It is an article that oscillates between fascinating statistics and under reported conclusions turned generalizations. There's even a reference to a dry cleaner!
 
According to the article, the good news is that Asian Americans and Asian immigrants have a lower reported unemployment rate (7.5 percent) than the national average (10.2 percent).  More specifically, the unemployment gap among Asians is "far lower than the rates for whites, blacks, Hispanics or the national as a whole." Of course, the strong showing among Asians in our disillusioned, disgruntled American workforce is attributed to cultural factors like "education benchmarks and cultural traditions that foster family support when someone is out of work." Cue image here of the overworked geek of indeterminate Asian origin, rising above the rest of American society .