Foiled Again

When I first moved back to Columbia one of the first things I did was sign up at Gold's Gym... DETERMINED to lose the baby weight from Audrey (who was now 8 months old). I went regularly... even meeting with a personal trainer for a month. Things were going good. And, then... I stopped meeting with the personal trainer. And, I didn't feel guilty if I didn't make it to the gym all of the sudden, because I knew I wasn't letting anyone down but myself...

... and let myself down I did.

I stopped going to the gym religiously... and oh my... yeah, that's all I'll say... Oh my.

So, one day about two or three months ago, I lace up the old running shoes and decide that I'm going to get back to going to the gym. I had it all planned out that I'd go right before they closed so that it was the kids bedtime when I left there and I could come home and put the kids straight into bed. The kid's club at Gold's closed at 8:30... I KNEW this. So, I planned everything out just perfectly to give myself a good 30 minute workout... and showed up at 5 to 8....

... only to be told that the kid's club was closing in 5 minutes.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??

nope, they had changed their hours and I'd known nothing about it. So, feeling sorry for myself (and for Levi who I'd been promising ALL DAY that we'd go to the gym... which he LOVES)... I headed back home. And that incident was enough to make me hang the boxing gloves back up.

The kids started pre-school, Summer was in full swing and I was busy every weekend with John... and I never made it back into the gym...

UNTIL tonight.

Tonight, I, AGAIN, planned things perfectly. This time I go in, KNOWING that they close the kid's club at 8. So, I'm going to show up at 7:30 and have a good half hour workout, end with some crunches on an ab machine... and get my butt in gear. I tell Levi that we're going to the gym, getting him all sorts of excited. I get both kids all bundled up in jackets (what's up with the chilly weather overnight, anyway?), I get myself all decked out in workout clothes and dust off the tennis shoes... and we head out to the gym.

Anyone want to guess what happens next?

that's right...

the kid's club was closed.

YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!!

and there was no one behind the desk to give me a clue to what was going on. A guy even went in search of someone who worked there and we NEVER found the girl that was supposed to be behind the desk. So, after a little bit of digging around in the papers they have sitting on the counter, I found the hours of operation for the gym AND for kid's club.

Turns out, on Friday nights, kid's club closes at 7. The stupid thing is... I had been ready for a while and had been sitting at home wasting time until 7:30 when I knew I could go and get a half hour workout in before the kids bedtime.

FOILED AGAIN.

SO... to keep this little incident from happening YET AGAIN... and to inform anyone else who might be reading this and wants to know...

the hours of kid's club operation at Gold's Gym (now Key Largo Fitness) is such:

M-Sat. 9:oo am - 12:00 pm
M-Th. 4:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Fri. 4:30 - 7:00
Sun. Closed

I will NOT be moved. I am DETERMINED to get back to the gym and get this old body back into shape!!!

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately. A lot of soul searching and personl assessment. There will be a lot of changes happening with Becky. Out with the old and in with the new!!! I'm excited!!!

Welcome to my ride.

SHINE ON!!!