October 2008 - sad

I heard a rumor that my gym is closing down. I'm really in the dumps about it.

I know I am whining, but I really love the gym I go to. It's like family in there.

It has classes, weights and weight machines, etc. and 2 boulder rooms and climbing walls! No other gym in Columbia has climbing.

This gym basically saved my life. I was at a turning point in my life and decided to make some changes, and I rejoined at Stronghold again.

That is where I did my trapeze lessons too.

Stronghold is the only gym I've been to where it feels like home. Everyone is friendly...like family. You don't have to have this perfect type body to work out there either. I hate those kind of gyms. Stuck up perfect body types in there only. Yuk! Spa type gyms! Ugh!

Stronghold is like Cheers for me, where everybody knows my name.

You don't get that type of treatment anywhere else.

I've made a ton of friends there climbing and in my yoga classes.

I am so depressed right now. I spend a lot of my free time in this place. It is my saving grace. I escape reality there. I can't imagine my life without this gym!

I try to be postive about things in my life. I know things could be so much worse. I know there are people dying in 3rd world countries and people who don't even have climbing gyms near them at all. BUT this is real to me too. This is something real that is happening to me, and I can be sad about it, right?

I feel exhausted over it. I am so sad.

Anyway, it is breaking my heart! I hope this is just one sorry ass rumor!!!