Monterey Sports Center
301 E. Franklin St., Monterey, 646-3730
Yes there’s daycare and U-Jam and yoga and youth leagues and the area’s best pickup basketball and elliptical machines and saunas and an underappreciated water slide and so many classes included with membership. But most importantly, there are these luminous beings at the front, deeply and authentically cheerful, even if dawn hasn’t hit the horizon. If the hardest part of working out is getting there, these people are saints for making that easier.