Ultra-beard or Babyface?

”There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.”~Jean Cocteau

I know, you're saying "who cares?" and I'm inclined whole-heartily to agree with you... but it's a slow moment at work so I hope you'll forgive this moment of vanity.

Now that the 50k is successfully completed, and following the culmination of the past few months of training (and not shaving), when it comes to my "ultra-beard", I have come to the same crossroads I often find myself at regarding facial hair: should I or shouldn't I shave?

I guess this kind of thought process is symptomatic of someone with either too much time on their hands or too little initiative for more important pursuits, though I don't spend the time considering it I used to... just ask my wife. (Who comes down on the side of either "do" or "don't," just "quit obsessing about it.")

So it is on these recent rainy, muddy, yet refreshingly natural days, it is far easier to shower, dress and be on my merry way, than to take the time and effort to shave each day... and to not give it another thought (honest!). Call it laziness or merely responding to the clarion call to beardiness, but for this week, at any rate, I'll reckon it stays.

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