Should parking time limits drive our workout choices?

I sometimes find myself doing things that are a little difficult because of the way society has set things up.  Yesterday, I had a treadmill run and weights to do for workouts, and decided to just do those one right after the other at the gym.   Reasonable, right? 

Well, that's actually where it gets a little difficult--my treadmill run was an hour long, and then weights would take anywhere between 40 minutes and an hour, for a rough estimate of 2 hours of time working out.  Every gym I'm able to go to has a time limit of 20-30 minutes on a treadmill, but I've gotten used to figuring out how to avoid that.   Usually, just going at an off-peak time takes care of it--otherwise, moving from one treadmill to the next throws people off.   I happen to know from experience that if you want to run 16 miles on a treadmill, the staff will start to give you the stink-eye at about the hour and thirty mark regardless of what you've done to avoid their scrutiny.  I also happen to know that if you want to run 16 miles on a treadmill, you should seriously consider having your head examined.

The next part is that many gyms in the LA area have a parking situation that requires you to be in and out of the parking garage within 2 hours.  This left me with zero time for stretching before the run and zero time for showering after doing weights.   I'm not a fan of injuring myself during a run, and my coworkers are not fans of me showing up to work after 2 hours of sweating without taking a shower....so, between the run and the weights, I ran out to my car, drove out of the parking structure and then drove back in and parked in exactly the same spot I was at before.

This all makes me wonder--if I didn't have a coach telling me what workouts to do, would I have gone to the trouble I did?  Probably not.   I think I would have allowed the 2 hour limit on parking to drive my workout decisions.   So, I'm just glad my coach is in charge of that, and not a city bureaucrat who decided that 2 hours was sufficient for everyone.