Back to the Gym!
After a six-month hiatus, I've starting go to the gym again. In large part, that's because I have a car again.
See, until now, going to the gym involved the following logistics:
1. Take my gym bag full of gear with me to work in the morning, so I could stay on the bus past my stop and get off near the gym.
2. This was necessary because I could *just barely* get my workout done in time to get out to the bus stop for the ride home afterward if I did that.
3. If I went home first, it meant that by the time I got to the gym and did my workout, the bus line switched from a bus every 20-30 minutes to ONCE AN HOUR.
4. If my workout ran even a little long, I ended up cooling my heels for an hour before I could get home.
5. Throw in excessive heat this summer, or rain and cold in the winter, and...
Eventually I stopped going.
But now I can go home after work, change into my workout clothes and drive to the gym, do what needs doing WITHOUT WATCHING THE CLOCK, and drive home again when I'm damn good and ready.
It's little things like this that I missed when I didn't have a car. Sure, you can *manage* using the bus (and the occasional Uber/Lyft/Whatever) to get around. But that's no way to live.
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See, until now, going to the gym involved the following logistics:
1. Take my gym bag full of gear with me to work in the morning, so I could stay on the bus past my stop and get off near the gym.
2. This was necessary because I could *just barely* get my workout done in time to get out to the bus stop for the ride home afterward if I did that.
3. If I went home first, it meant that by the time I got to the gym and did my workout, the bus line switched from a bus every 20-30 minutes to ONCE AN HOUR.
4. If my workout ran even a little long, I ended up cooling my heels for an hour before I could get home.
5. Throw in excessive heat this summer, or rain and cold in the winter, and...
Eventually I stopped going.
But now I can go home after work, change into my workout clothes and drive to the gym, do what needs doing WITHOUT WATCHING THE CLOCK, and drive home again when I'm damn good and ready.
It's little things like this that I missed when I didn't have a car. Sure, you can *manage* using the bus (and the occasional Uber/Lyft/Whatever) to get around. But that's no way to live.
This entry was originally posted at https://sinanju.dreamwidth.org/229497.html. Comment here or on Dreamwidth.