Yo gym bo
My muscles ache agreeably. I’ve just started going to the gym again, after a break of almost a year.
I like my gym — certainly more than I like their website — but it irks me that it is a twelve-minute drive away. I’m pampered: I used to have both my gym and my favorite café right on the five-minute walk to my work. The café is still there (I’d knock on wood if I didn’t find that philosophically objectionable), but there is no gym in downtown Reykjavík anymore.
Isn’t that odd? The inhabitants of downtown Reykjavík are probably on average the youngest and the most socially active of any region in the capital area. Young and socially active people tend to want to go to the gym. And those who live downtown tend to want to walk wherever they go. You’d think there were a market for a gym here.
And you wouldn’t be the first to think so. There were two gyms downtown last year, both of them pretty nice. One of them, the really swanky one, went bankrupt, and the other was part of World Class and they closed it last August. They explained that the downtown rent was so high that the place wasn’t worth running. Still the membership fee for the downtown location was higher than the other locations (double, if I recall correctly), and it was fairly well attended.
Is downtown housing really that much pricier? Is it really not possible to run even one gym profitably in central Reykjavík?
June 19th, 2005 at 6:59 pm
Listaspírurnar í RVK 101 sprikla ekki í samkomuhúsum.
Þær drekka kaffi á kaffihúsum.
Nema þú sért kona búsett í 101 þá getur farið í Baðhúsið.
Ætli það séu fleirri konur búsettar í 101, en karlar?
June 20th, 2005 at 12:55 pm
Ef ég ætti að nýta mér minn meðfædda hæfileika til að giska út í bláinn :) myndi ég segja 8528 karlar (þar af 3561 á aldrinum 15-35) og 8369 konur (þar af 3693 á aldrinum 15-35). Karlarnir ofurlítið fleiri í heildina, og konurnar ofurlítið fleiri á þessu aldursbili sem er (giskútíbláinn) líklegast til líkamsræktar.
Ég er hins vegar áþreifanlega ókvenlegur og því óvelkominn í Baðhúsið. En Brautarholt 20 er nú heldur ekki alveg fullgilt 101! Ef ég labbaði þangað af Skólavörðustígnum neðanverðum væri ég kominn meira en hálfa leið í Laugar; þá gæti ég alveg eins breytt labbinu í upphitun og skokkað í Laugardalinn.
Svona á meðal annarra orða og næstum alveg óumhugsað: mér þykir sjálfsagt að Baðhúsið sé það sem það er, en ætli það þætti alveg eins sjálfsagt að reka líkamsræktarstöð sem útilokaði konur? Myndi ekki a.m.k. heyrast hljóð úr einhverjum hornum?