Exercise is where you find it!

With the spring thaw, I've resolved to walk every day to compensate for the lack of dog walking to which I've grown accustomed. Today, downtown, was an icy, slush mess. Plus it was raining! Where to go?

Around the corner I find Place Bell, an office tower where lawyer types hang out [the court house is right across the street]. Sure enough as I enter, a lawyer with his funny robes and a coat over his arm is running in right behind me. License plates on nearby streets, start with LLB.

I decide Place Bell is large enough for me to walk around it indoors; I'll do the shopping concourse but keep my eyes straight ahead so as not to ruin the walk with looking at any window candy. I do two tours then realize there's a downstairs. Down the escalator I go only to find in one of the basement hallways, a very lively aerobic exercise class going on. I wonder if it's restricted to building workers. On my way back upstairs, I realize I can get a really good workout (à la Biggest Loser) by walking up the down escalator! I check for cameras, then hop to it. Yes, my dears: it is an aerobic workout. I step off periodically as ladies are coming down the escalator with yoga mats under their arms. I chat up one who tells me Marj welcomes anyone in the vicinity to her exercise classes around the corner and down the hall.

I go see Marj. True enough: $30 buys you a month of daily exercise or 3 months for $75 - what a deal! There are washrooms around the corner to change in and showers down the hall! Whooo! I take Marj's handout thinking I really should indulge - after all exercise deals like this one don't come by very often!

But on the walk back to the office, I rationalize. It's almost April. May is even better weather-wise and June even better. Why exercise in a basement hallway when the outdoors is calling your name? I decide to decline but if I'm working in this area come late fall or winter: Marj, I'll be there for you!