Power deodorant and the Great Aloha Run

Power. What does power smell like? According to deodorant makers, power smells like awesome. Why did I buy it? Because it was the cheapest one. Ideally, I would like to purchase no-smell deodorant. Side story that happened in Victoria during my month long construction work escapade. My brother Jacob and I were eating at a family's house from the local ward and the conversation turned to odors. They were talking about how there was a lady in the ward that was really sensitive to odors and how she had really bad reactions around perfume and strong-smelling deodorant. Then the tone got pretty serious and someone said, "Well, the odor industry is a dying industry anyway. Pretty soon everything will be odorless." Then everyone nodded their heads looking shamefully at their plates. Really? I had my doubts, but then I saw a commercial a couple days later about a new Nivea deodorant that was... odorless. If you have any stocks in the odor industry, please sell. End side story.

So anyways, my deodorant purchase. I really like this deodorant. I often smell my armpits when I'm sitting at my desk in the library and even sometimes while on my bike waiting for a green light. I had a chance to really use my deodorant yesterday during the Great Aloha Run, which leads to another story.

I was doing the Great Aloha Run (an 8 mile run for cancer I think, or maybe it was TBA), and right after starting I heard this mother speaking to her son who was running behind my little group. She said, "just follow the big guy the whole way." I thought, oh man, I don't think this kid will be able to follow me for 8 miles. To my humble surprise he stayed behind me! His little legs were sprinting the whole 8 miles! And this is the more impressive part of the story. When there was a little under a mile left, he started sprinting! His mom asked me to follow him and keep him in my sight. So I ended up sprinting after him and we sprinted side by side the whole way right across the finish line! I almost threw up, but the kid was so happy! He was just smiling and jumping up and down giving me high fives while I tried not to puke all over him.

By the way, I didn't puke. I actually chowed down 3 packs of donuts, 4 bananas, and 5 energy bars at the free food station several minutes after finishing. I gotta get my money's worth.