Butt soap

After reading the list of 6 personal oddities from Wes, I was reminded of how I came to my own personal shower routine. Think about your normal method of bathing for a moment. There are potential cleaning disasters awaiting you in your sleepy, coffee deprived state first thing in the morning. Try to recall what the soap touches just before it is used on or around your face. Wonder where I'm going with this?

My very specific and thoroughly planned method is 1) nether regions 2) legs 3) belly/chest 4) back 5) arms, and 6) face. Why is this important? There is never a time when I could wash my face with butt soap. The path it takes on it's way to the facial area ensures that all butt is removed from the bar by the time it gets there. And another concern is the order: sure I could reverse it, but that means the next time I take a shower I have butt soap to wash my face with. My method leaves a bar of soap that could be used safely on any part of the body at the next opportunity, completely without fear of cross pollination between heads and tails.

Anyway, now that we've gone to the deep end of my weird thoughts pool, I had a decent run today. I'm still recovering from the tri, and I'm sorta trying to have a light(er) week, but I must admit some disappointment at a regression in my time/pace. I was going really well until the start of the last mile, and I started to run out of gas (just about the time I saw Scott driving by.) Temp was only 81 and wind only 8mph, so it was all me. :-(

Stats: 4.25 miles in 29:05 @ 6:50/mile

I think I will get back in the pool tomorrow, and get ready for a killer workout on Saturday. I may just do an ultra brick. Yikes!