I think I am onto something, a solution to this problem.

Next to the little gym inside the clubhouse at the complex where I do cardio, there is a shower. I took a shower there once and I liked it better than taking a shower at home. Maybe because as a new place, it does not come with baggage and negative associations unlike at home, maybe because it is pleasant to hop into a shower straight after exercise while sweat is still warm, and maybe because at home I have a regular shower over tub and at the clubhouse there is a shower stall with a surface on which it is much more convenient to wash feet and legs (yes Unaluna! I want to also say to my reader that I have washed them).

So now I am putting together a gym bag with shower supplies, slippers, a towel and I will need some sort of a clean warm robe to walk back to my unit... have to figure this part out still.

Optimistic that this might be it for me.