Gym: Neglect
I’ve been neglecting the gym of late due to various excuses (the ‘doing 60 laps in the pool is causing my eyes to burn for 12 hours afterwards’ has now gone due to some snazzy new goggles with mirrored fonts… I just can’t see anything any more 
) , however, I did manage to drag my sorry hide down there on Wednesday (failed to do 60 laps as I’d not been for over a week and was out of practice) and today (where I managed to kill myself on the cross trainer for 35 minutes on quite a high setting… gotta love going to the gym in a shitty mood 
). Good thing is I actually miss it if I don’t go and have started looking forward to going and actually actively wanting to go. Down side is the shampoo I’m using (some designer crud that came with the sponge bag I bought for the gym) is not doing nice things for my hair (neither is the chlorine in the pool for that matter) so I need to either find some Head and Shoulders in nice small bottles or, ideally, find something that handles chlorine well in a nice small bottle.
Go to Boots. Look for special shampoo for swimming pools in whatever size bottle it comes in. Go to other section that sells sponges, soap disshes and nail brushes and buy a small plastic screw-top bottle, known as a travelling bottle. In the privacy of your own bathroom, decant shampoo into small bottle for your gym spongebag. Ergo you have small bottle with special shampoo that copes with chlorine.
Alternatively go to the sports shop and buy a swim hat.
OK then clever clogs: which bathroom should I do this in?
Can’t really see me in a swim hat, can you?
#visualises Dom in swim hat# says nothing….
#snigger#
#looks innocent#
I rest my case
Oh - and I now have 2 (two) screw cap bottles for to be decanting some nice new Molton Brown shampoo and my bog standard Lynx shower gel into. We’ll see how the Molton Brown pans out. If it’s no good I’ll just decant Head And Shoulders into the bottles. I also got an iPod shuffle as my nano was getting a bit… damp during my more energitic workouts and if I leave it on the machine I get dangling headphone cables which I hate.
Molton Brown is just a pretty name (well not even that really - can you imagine looking at some small wrinkly child and saying “I think I will call him Molton”). There is proper swimming shampoo that counteracts the effects of chlorine, leaving your hair soft, manageable and chlorine-free
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Why doesn’t a Shuffle get as damp as a Nano?
Shuffle can be clipped to the neck of my t-shirt rather than having to reside in my pocket or on my arm in an armband type thing.
I’ll keep a look out for the swimming shampoo when I next go to boots. To be honest I’ve found that Head and Shoulders is better than pretty much anything.