Farewell, Breakaway

For the past three years, I've been fortunate enough to have a personal trainer who, up until recently, was also my physical therapist. We worked out in the PT office in the evenings but in 2007 we moved to a new facility south of here, in Brimfield, a large gym-like place with an exercise floor and basketball and baseball training areas. I admit, at first, I didn't much like it and missed the intimacy of the PT office, but in time, it sort of grew on me and I began to actually sort of like the place. Its main drawbacks were that it was fairly cold in the wintertime, as the trainers kept the heat back to around 50 degrees to save on the heat bill, and that it wasn't air conditioned in the summer, and it could get bakingly hot in there with the building surrounded by an asphalt parking lot. There was a large garage door like thing located near the exercise floor that could be opened to let air in on hot summer days, so that at least gave it some much needed ventilation on hot summer days. So all in all, it was bearable, if not very warm and cool at times. But sadly, Breakaway Sports Training, where I have worked out with my trainer since it opened in November of 2007, has gone out of business due to the withdrawal of two of the four partners who were running it. So now I have nowhere to work out. My trainer was supposed to find us a new place to go, possibly taking us back to the PT office where we began, but I haven't heard a thing and I half suspect that he's going to take a break from working with us for a while and spend some time with his family instead, who have hardly seen him in three years. He was busy these recent years doing undergraduate and graduate work toward a career change to a high school science teacher and he has succeeded in so doing, as he was able to secure a job teaching in a local school system. Between that and building up the sports training business, he really hasn't seen much of his family recently, so I suspect the long silence is due to his wanting some down time with his family, and I suppose I can't blame him, but it leaves me feeling very much at a loss as to what to do now. I'm not terribly disciplined about doing exercise on my own and having a trainer to work with, especially one who's known me this long and who knows my physical limitations, has been a godsend. I rather suspect that I won't hear anything before the end of the year, as Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas will soon be upon us. so either I am going to have to tough it out and find ways on my own to workout or just wait patiently for word as to what, if anything, is going to happen now. Frankly, I won't be surprised if I never hear anything at all and if my trainer calls it quits for now to spend time with his family. I'll just feel very sad if our days of working out with him are over, because it's been a good three year run getting stronger and feeling better about myself. I'm going to miss it.