I was looking through a collection of articles that I had saved and came across one from 2007. The article was about the fitness of cities in the United States. I saved it because two Texas cities were on the list.
Austin was in the top 15 fittest cities and San Antonio was the second fattest city. I recall reading the article and it caught my attention because I haven’t seen a ranking of fit and fat cities for several years. This might be my lack of attention to media outlets that report this information.
I started to recall thinking San Marcos was in the middle of one of the fittest cities and one of the fattest cities and wondered which city San Marcos followed. Looking back at San Marcos at the time period and the conditions that prevailed then had my attention. San Marcos had four main fitness centers with Jim’s Gym. San Marcos Athletic Club, the Activity Center, and the Recreation Center at the university. There may have been a few smaller fitness businesses such as yoga classes, karate businesses, and walking clubs.
