The New Road

Union City's Sports Center

Our little city just built it's own fitness center. I remember when we first moved here it was the one thing I was really hankering for because the other gyms were so far from the house. Now that we have it I have mixed feelings. First, there is no pool, which rules out membership right off the bat.

Second, there is a big design flaw with it. I should start by saying that the place is huge. A big hall for basketball, another for yoga/pilates/aerobics/spinning, a huge weight room with aerobics equipment, and more that they haven't even opened up yet. This place could easily have hundreds of people in it all working out at one time, particular around breakfast, lunch, or in the evenings. So what's the problem? They have three showers for men, and three for women. Three! It's crazy. Silliman has nine for each, and thats just in the aquatic side, there are more in the aerobics area.

Anyway, other than that the facility is very nice. They definitely trend more towards aerobics than weights. Which makes sense since the roid-heads will go to Gold's just down the road anyway.

For me, I'll probably take spinning there once a week unless Silliman offers it, which they might. But with the pool, and the fitness stuff at Silliman there is really no reason to go to this new gym all the time. More is the pity though, I would have loved a fitness center that really fit our needs to be close by.

Some good news though, I was able to run a solid 10K in 54 minutes. That's a good start. I have about five weeks to really get my running down so that I can get through the running portion of the triathlon. The swimming is fairly easy. The biking isn't much of a problem. But the running always has been. So I'm looking to run about 30-40K per week between now and then to really get in shape for the run.