A couple of months ago I joined the gym at Edge Hill University with the intention of going in the daytime. This was easy when I work at home because I can arrange meetings and other bits of work around the gym. However, it is trickier when I’m working most of the daytime at a client site – currently the Wigan Youth Zone.

So it was a little before 9pm when I could try and squeeze in some exercise and I wanted to go to the gym to try out some of my new exciting training programme.

However, when I signed up a while back, it turns out I’d thought that off-peak would be most sensible, what with being able to go in the daytime. Stood helpless without the requisite £1.20 to get into the gym with an off-peak card, I had to turn tail and head home. Tomorrow, I upgrade to full membership.

By the time I was home it was feeling very late. So I tried to squeeze in half an hour on the treadmill and the rowing machine: 1 mile (in 11:33 minutes) and then 17 minutes on the rowing machine.