Ideal Bite

Chlorine can cause major follicle fallout, as I experienced in junior high and high school. I was on the swim team, and although I almost always wore a cap, my hair often got wet. I had to use this hardcore swimmer's shampoo every day after practice so it wasn't all crunchy and chlorine-smelling. I'd lather-rinse-repeat so many times with this heavy-duty shampoo that on really bad days, the drain would clog up with my hair.

The pool-friendly alternatives to chlorine are great. But if you're like me and don't own your own pool (the closest thing I have is a bathtub), which do you think is better: chlorine-filled pools or the ocean/lake/river?

In SF, almost no one has a pool, and the beaches are fairly clean (although last year's news of South San Francisco's spillage of 2 million gallons of raw sewage didn't make me run for my board shorts and beach towel), so the answer's easy enough. I plan on making it out to Pacifica Beach at least a couple times over the next few months. Hopefully I'll live to tell some tales.

-Toshio...off to bug my roommate, Corinne, about borrowing her surfboard...

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