Spoilt for choice - hopefully.
Jan. 27th, 2007 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyThis afternoon I finally got around to going to the local branch of Virgin Active and transferring my membership from Colliers Wood to there. This unusual bout of getting-something-done was largely motivated by the ridiculous levels of enthusiasm for exercise which can be found in the journal of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
easternpromise, which I started reading recently.
Unfortunately, not only is it not all that local (it's at Angel, which from my flat is a ten minute walk followed by a ten minute wait for a bus followed by a ten minute bus ride), not only did transferring my membership cost me 10 quid (bit annoying after I've spent six months paying them 65 quid a month and not actually going at all), not only is the local gym more expensive (77 quid a month instead of 66), but it's also nowhere near as nice as the one in Colliers Wood. The kit is older and less nice to use, it's downstairs in a poky basement instead of in a nice high-ceiling upstairs room with big windows, and it's all crammed together instead of nicely spaced out. On the whole I was greatly unimpressed.
I booked myself an induction session anyway, as I figured I may as well plod on with it now that I've started the ball rolling. Then I came home. A short spod later, andskorpionuk pops up for a chat. On hearing my tale of woe, she informed me that VA have just bought Holmes Place. I google them, check out their site, and what do you know - they have two gyms closer to my place, and they're theoretically part of VA now. I think I shall go and check them both out and see which one is nicer, then transfer my membership again. After the induction, that is - might as well see if she's got anything useful to suggest before I jump ship again.
Actually, I could go and check out the HP gyms tomorrow. Yeah, that sounds like a plan.
Fear my almost productive day. *goes back to microwaving pizza and reading sci-fi*
easternpromise, which I started reading recently.Unfortunately, not only is it not all that local (it's at Angel, which from my flat is a ten minute walk followed by a ten minute wait for a bus followed by a ten minute bus ride), not only did transferring my membership cost me 10 quid (bit annoying after I've spent six months paying them 65 quid a month and not actually going at all), not only is the local gym more expensive (77 quid a month instead of 66), but it's also nowhere near as nice as the one in Colliers Wood. The kit is older and less nice to use, it's downstairs in a poky basement instead of in a nice high-ceiling upstairs room with big windows, and it's all crammed together instead of nicely spaced out. On the whole I was greatly unimpressed.
I booked myself an induction session anyway, as I figured I may as well plod on with it now that I've started the ball rolling. Then I came home. A short spod later, and
skorpionuk pops up for a chat. On hearing my tale of woe, she informed me that VA have just bought Holmes Place. I google them, check out their site, and what do you know - they have two gyms closer to my place, and they're theoretically part of VA now. I think I shall go and check them both out and see which one is nicer, then transfer my membership again. After the induction, that is - might as well see if she's got anything useful to suggest before I jump ship again.Actually, I could go and check out the HP gyms tomorrow. Yeah, that sounds like a plan.
Fear my almost productive day. *goes back to microwaving pizza and reading sci-fi*
