Another Town, Another Gym.

As I hurry upstairs I hear clinking, clunking sounds on the left: mostly weights being put down by men doing the clean and jerk and bench presses. In the room on the right are the cardio machines which beckon me. This is a rowing city, with a river, so I start on the single sculls machine, which records distance rowed on a screen and the number of calories burned per hour. I then head for the exercycle and level pedalling, then up an incline, which is harder on me but it is where I burn more calories. I finish the hour on the treadmill, where my heart rate gets up to 200 a minute. The red screen numbers tell me all I need to know. At the end of the workout I discover my true self which I cannot find anywhere else. - 7,8 June 2020.