We are, again, in Champaign visiting T. He was home last week for Christmas. This week B and I traveled here for New Years. We are again spending some checking out the community to see what it will have to offer, once we move. Today we checked into community ed, fitness centers, and the University Rec IM facilities.
So what is it we want to do? M wants to have work out facilities and machines. A pool too. B wants to play racquetball. And we aren't sure but we don't think T wants anay part of this, but he did say he'd play racquetball too. We've also talked about learning to play tennis and squash. Off we went to find out he best possible places....
THE FITNESS CENTER: We found racquetball courts here, cardio equipment, a complete class list, free weights, and other machines. It is a little older facility. They have lots of equipment. No pool, but everything else we wanted.
Second stop:
CRCE on the campus. We were pleasantly surprised! There is TONS of equipment, two pools, tons of basketball courts, 3 racquetball courts, 1 squash court, nice locker rooms, a padded track, classes, etc......Then we stopped at the desk and the 'tour guide' told us the university is building a brand new Rec IM center, that will open in May 08. There will be 12 racquetball courts!!!! Just an example of how this new facility will "drawf" the current building. AND they are keeping the old bulding open too!
Stop 3 was the
Urbana Aquatic Center: This, again, was a beautiful facility. If B was going to be on a swim team this would be a perfect place for us. But other than the pool, there was no other equipment available.
Last stop was the
UI Ice Rink: Mostly we just wanted to see what was here. Nice rink, but no other PE opportunities available.
Hands down, this is an easy decision!!! It looks like once we get moved we'll become members of the campus Rec IM. We can get membership because of where T works and we don't need to find a sponsor!!!! So watch our UofI, once we get here we are going to be taking advantage of your facilities. T and I need to relearn how to play racquetball (which we both did about 100 years ago). Then M wants to learn tennis and I think B will join me. And I'm guessing we'll all learn how to play squash. Let fitness begin!!!!
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