Hypothetical question
You’ve just come back from your 5 mile run in the afternoon of the hottest day of the year so far. Mid 70’s and sunny. Not scorching but winter has made you wimpy and it feels damn hot. You drank your Gatorade and we well hydrated and sweated like crazy. 8:48 pace. A damn good run.
You come home and eat everything in the fridge.
Then you go to take your nice 10 minute ice bath and read Runner’s World. Along with your bath you are eating the most wonderful after-race snack: Oberto Beef Jerky. Its got the protein for the muscles, and salt to help your electrolyte levels. And it tastes heavenly. Life is so good you almost want to cry.
Then you drop your beef jerky into the bathtub.
You fish it out well within the six-second-rule time limit. But its wet. With the bath water from your sweaty body. But its Oberto Beef Jerky and (get this) its the very last piece. You’ve still got 5 more minutes of ice bath to go.
Do you eat the beef jerky?
May 21st, 2005 20:34
Eat it. Oh yes, indeedy - especially if it’s the last piece. No question.
May 21st, 2005 23:52
I hope the answer is no. You go from truffles to sweaty beaf jerky?
May 22nd, 2005 00:41
Of course you EAT it,, 6 second rule,, why not 10 seconds,, sure thing! Just dont wrestle it out of the dogs mouth,,, then naaaa
Heather
May 22nd, 2005 09:19
Well, you know what I’m going to say… waste not, want not, and such things. Also, I’m sorry, I’ve been catching up because I was out of town, but I love the new ‘do on your blog, AND, the picture stream of you iPod is possibly one of the funniest, randomest, things I’ve seen in some time! You are too funny. xoxo Mia
May 22nd, 2005 11:09
I’d do what you did? You ate it, RIGHT?
May 22nd, 2005 12:27
Depends–is it soggy or just wet? If you dry it off, will it be OK, just cold? Then yes, I would eat it. If it’s soggy, though, no way.
May 22nd, 2005 13:18
you rinse it under the clean water, very briefly, and eat it! i always thought beef jerky was so tough as to be indestructible, so presumably it wouldn’t get soggy…
May 22nd, 2005 14:48
See, you lost me on that first sentence. If I’d run anywhere for five miles, someone would be planning my funeral.
And no…no beef jerkey :-)
May 22nd, 2005 17:22
I would not be eating beef jerky in an ice bath. Beef jerky, I’m OK with … ice baths scare me. Hypothetically speaking though, I am a rinser.
May 22nd, 2005 17:55
You eat it! As a parent and a runner- I find that there is no shame in eating food that has come in contact with the floor, or a drooling kid’s mouth! Once I was eating a Powerbar pre-run, and put it right down on the floor near the front door (next to the stinky family shoe pile), put my shoes on, and resumed eating the Powerbar. I did it without thinking. I later read one of those “You know you are a runner if…” lists, and eating food off the floor was one of the things listed.
And- I always eat when I am taking an ice-bath you kill two birds with one stone!
May 22nd, 2005 20:59
Yeah, I’d eat it.
May 23rd, 2005 08:45
Of course you eat it, Jon! You did, didn’t you? Jerky is pretty, well, necessary!
May 23rd, 2005 08:46
Probably just like dipping it in broth before you eat it. You ate it right? Normally I don’t eat in the bath tub.
May 23rd, 2005 09:09
Hell yeah, you eat it. And you might even discover a new after running ritual to go along with your ice bath if you’re lucky… :)
May 23rd, 2005 10:56
it’s called ‘recycling’. all the salt in the water from your body is put back to good use. go ahead and drink the bath water too…it’s almost like drinking gatorade.
May 23rd, 2005 13:14
I’d be soaking in a steamy hot bubble bath. Now if I dropped my jerky, I would rinse off the bubbles and eat it without a second thought.
If I dropped it on the kitchen floor, I’d have to beat the dog to it…lol. :-)
May 23rd, 2005 13:54
you are funny. My husband and I are laughing at you…I mean with you
May 23rd, 2005 16:16
Pshaw. It’s beef, man!
May 23rd, 2005 20:41
I think you can follow the 6-second rule and eat it unless it is a Friday. Chocolate and sweaty bath stewed jerky just don’t go together.
May 23rd, 2005 22:02
As an old Navy Chief I say if you don’t eat that mister, it will be bread and water for you for a week, and no chocolate milk either!!
May 25th, 2005 11:16
No. I woulnd’t eat it. But I’m a vegetarian. I WOULD however, wrestle something out of my dog’s mouth and then probably eat it. I’m just being honest here, i mean, isn’t that what this forum is for? Honesty. Candor?