The gym
March drives to

There is no 24 hour gym in March with two buildings of Hammer Strength, Nautilus, Arsenal Strength and Megamass, two competition boxing rings and doors that open at three in the morning. A March 24 hour gym search ends fifteen minutes up the A141, at the Wisbech 24 hour gym on Regal Road.

Fifteen minutes on the A141 is not much when the alternative is driving to Peterborough, and members from March make that trip several times a week without complaint.

If you are coming from March the 24-hour access matters more than it does for people who live round the corner, because you can pick the hour that suits the drive rather than the hour that suits the gym.

The practical way to make it work is to attach the trip to something you already do. Members who commute towards Wisbech or King’s Lynn train on the way in or the way home; parents come across after the school run and use the quiet late-morning stretch; shift workers pick the small hours and have the place almost to themselves. Once it is attached to an existing journey the fifteen minutes stops registering as a decision.

Fifteen minutes each way is the only cost. What people come for is the equipment depth, the coaching and the ring, none of which exist within that radius, and that is why members from March keep making the trip. Join for half price, take your free induction, and judge it on the room rather than the mileage. Membership is close to its cap, so the space is there now rather than indefinitely.