“Whoa Nellie”

I dutifully changed all our clocks back to Standard Time last weekend.
As a result I got to the Canandaigua YMCA at 10:15 yesterday (Monday, November 2, 2009), which is 11:15 Daylight Savings Time, the time I usually got there.
10:15 is quite early — early enough to do the Cybex circuit, which I haven’t had time for for months.
The goal is to get out by 1:45. 11:15 to 1:45 was never enough time, not with three 30-minute sessions on the cardiovascular trainers.
Readers will start adding things up.
Three 30-minute sessions an the cardiovascular machines is not two and one-half hours: 11:15 to 1:45.
Two of those sessions are actually 35 minutes each; there’s a five-minute cooldown.
Plus there’s a five-to-eight minute break between each session to -a) wipe off the machine, and -b) use the mens room.
Whatever, I’d usually get out between 1:30 and 2.
So theoretically, if I’d got there at 10:15 instead of 11:15, I’d have an additional hour.
Whoa Nellie!
That’s not the way it works.
With Standard Time the sun sets an hour earlier.
2 to 5 p.m. is not enough time to hit Weggers, drive home (a half-hour), mow some, and walk the dog in daylight.
So no Cybex circuit even though 10:15.
We have to operate on Sky Time.

• I work out at the YMCA in Canandaigua. (“Canandaigua” [“cannon-DAY-gwuh”] is a small city nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” —It’s about 15 miles away.)
• The “Cybex® circuit” is a circuit of 14 strength-training machines. Each machine targets a specific muscle-group. (Cybex is the manufacturer.)
• “Weggers” is Wegmans, a large supermarket-chain based in Rochester we often buy groceries at. They have a store in Canandaigua.