First visit

When I say I joined the gym I actually mean that I joined the Swiss Cottage Leisure Centre, of which the gym is a part. But who wants to say they've joined the Swiss Cottage Leisure Centre? To speak of 'joining the gym' imparts more meaning somehow. It speaks more of resolution. And manliness. If you're a man that is. On this my first solo visit to the gym I ran one kilometer on a treadmill in ten minutes. Nothing to boast about there. I did a bit better on a rowing machine and rowed one thousand metres in five minutes. At least, that's what the dials seemed to be saying. That would be quite something - to row one thousand metres in five minutes, I thought, and I imagine myself rowing along a river with a tow-path, another figure, also me, running along in parallel - also me.