Gentlemen, I’ll keep it brief but I need some advice. This one is ready to be chalked up as a lesson learned, but I want to make sure I go about it the right way.

To make a long story short - HB8 I see every day at the gym gives me her phone number unsolicited (gave it to someone to give to me). I try to game her for about a month - we met up to work out a few times, talked, etc. I tried to escalate it by getting her to hang out elsewhere, but she always offered up excuses (too busy, etc). Eventually I found an “opening” in her schedule and asked her out up front. She said she’d get back later but never did. Then later she blew off plans to work out with me because “she had a friend who is about to leave for 6 weeks and wanted to see her” (she made it clear the friend was a guy).

I feel that she disrespected me and wasted my time, so I soft-nexted her, withdrew attention and started trying to plate someone else outside the gym. I think I might have taken it to the extreme, though - yesterday she did cardio on a machine next to mine and I went great lengths to ignore her. Is this the proper way to do it? I’d definitely be open to banging her if I got the chance but I’m assuming it’s over and I’m certainly not going to chase her.

Thank you for your time.