u/souleater7173's SOTDs for challenge 'Mammoth Mafia 2023'

u/souleater7173 submitted 31 SOTDS.
  1. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-01 20:27:41-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 1, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (1)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Trying out this Weck thing. Ordered some Kismets from r/wetshaving’s local hobby enabler, but they didn’t show up on time (even though he sent them 2 weeks ago, stupid postal service is killing me). So I’m using this Personna all month, and guys, this thing fucking SUCKS. It just skips all over my face. A+ lather for my vector and this thing just doesn’t work. Worst shave of my life. Definitely the most alcohol splash has ever hurt my face after a shave. I think I’m going to have to switch to bowl lathering to really crank the water to see if that’ll add slickness. If anything makes me give up it’ll be this blade. The two passes I’m doing for now are just a North-South and then a South-North, it’s really all my hands can figure out right now.

    Gonna keep doing my bike riding thing from LG in case anyone wants to follow. I’ll update Mileage here as the month progresses. AA Mileage: 5 miles.

    Tags: #MammothMafia23 u/LaTuskFamilia #Monthofweckoning u/EldrormR u/Djundjila u/Semaj3000

  2. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-02 21:13:43-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 3, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (2)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Already hating this razor and we’ve barely started. Was really hoping it would take a week or two before despair, but alas. Definitely got WTG grain on the first pass. Second pass was a combo XTG and ATG depending on how I was able to make my hands work. That WTG pass was ok, going not that way is hard and bloody.

    AA Mileage: 10 miles

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  3. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-03 20:05:48-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 3, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (3)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Better shave than yesterday, still not fun. Did my face in quadrants today so that I could force myself to focus on blade angle and pressure without lather drying out (so did one cheek, then the other, then a neck side, then the other neck side doing both passes at for a quadrant before moving). It seemed to help a lot with the troublesome neck spots, ended up with only one bleeder today, but it made the shave take forever. I also tried glasses on for the neck sections. That helped a lot too.

    AA MIleage: 18 miles.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  4. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-04 21:24:30-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 5, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (4)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    WTG pass went awesome today, only blood was from nicking a pimple (which happens with the DE too). No problems with my weird neck spot at all.

    The not WTG pass was awful. My hand twitched with blade on skin while going up my cheek for the dreaded "parallel to edge blade motion" so I’ve got a nice, long, red line going across my face. Alum stopped the bleeding pretty quick, so it’s probably just papercut depth, but man was that not fun. Gonna have to avoid that spot for a couple days. Need to try a lot harder to get explicitly XTG on that second pass instead of whatever the hell my hands have been letting me do so far for the next couple days. We're halfway to a decent shave.

    Speaking of alum, I used Osma for the first time the other day. It definitely helped with the day after feel of these terrible shaves (doing these at night, so I gotta get through a workday in the meantime). Regular alum would probably do that too, but considering it’s making this slightly less of a nightmare I’ll give Osma the credit.

    AA Mileage: 18 miles. No change, rest day today.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  5. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-05 20:11:04-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 5, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (5)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Not only was today my first bloodless Weck, it was also the first day that the second pass actually felt like it accomplished hair reduction instead of just scraping my face off to get rid of the hair.

    WTG I feel confident in saying I’ve finally found the correct angle. XTG still has lots of work to do, but today is progress.

    AA Mileage: 31 miles. Got 12 miles in today, nice round 12mi/hr average for my hour long ride. The route I took today has a lot more elevation changes than my normal route, so I’m pretty happy with that ride.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  6. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-06 19:05:23-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 6, 2023 – The Blood is Back

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (6)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Overconfident from yesterday’s great shave, today brings back the neck irritation and blood. Nicked myself on the XTG. WTG still decent. Maybe one day I’ll actually be able to appreciate Sonder.

    AA Mileage: 31 miles. I’m fucking beat today. Resting up for this week, going to try and do a ride every day after work. I’m optimistic.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  7. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-07 20:34:51-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 7, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (7)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    If this is the monthly baseline I’ll feel ok the rest of the month. I think the number one thing I’ve changed so far in this first week, that I notice I changed, is starting to wear my glasses for the neck. That has helped a lot.

    AA Miles: 39 miles. Holy shit it was so fucking hot today. I went out at 7pm and it was still 100 degrees with a 106 heat index. Time to start figuring out how to ride before work instead of at night.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  8. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-08 19:56:34-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 8, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (8)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Lather sucked today. XTG was rough, miraculously no blood considering how not slick the lather was. If the lather had too bubbly, and not very slick, how do I fix that? (I asked this on discord but figure I’d put it here too in case non-discord people read this.

    AA Mileage: 46 miles. Good ride today, still 100 degrees, but less humid so it wasn’t as bad. I can’t wait to see what my average heart rate is on these rides when the weather cools off. Right now it’s very high.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  9. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-09 19:31:01-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 9, 2023 – Did I just have a good shave?

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (9)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Y’all I think I might’ve had a good shave today. No cuts, minimal alum or splash feedback, lather was good, actual smooth strokes on the XTG instead of skipping (I think I've finally got that angle right). I don’t know what to write here if I’m not complaining about this razor or the blades.

    AA Mileage: 52 miles. Got 6 more today, went super slow. Started with a crazy headwind so I decided to just take it easy. Probably going to need to take a day or two off so I can try for 15 miles on Saturday, but I’ll decide that tomorrow.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  10. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-10 20:27:18-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 10, 2023 – It’s becoming a pattern

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (10)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Pretty much exact same shave as yesterday. Not quite DFS to the touch but it looks DFS to the eye. If this is the rest of the month I’ll be happy. Everything started to click when I started taking the time to deliberately go WTG then XTG instead of just top to bottom on one pass and bottom to top on the other. Gonna have to start trying some ATG at some point for the practice, but I’ll save that for another week probably.

    AA Mileage: 52 miles. Took a break from riding today, gave the dog two extra walks to make up for it. Tomorrow is likely the same plan.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  11. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-11 20:29:40-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 11, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (11)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    It says a lot about how far my technique has come that I spent the whole shave today bemoaning today's too dry lather, yet I had the absolute least amount of splash feedback for the whole month so far. Today’s bad shave is a week ago’s good shave. Progress.

    I can’t help but think that I’m approaching the cliff with this blade, though. Once the technique caught up the blade became tolerable. Pretty sure one day next week it’s just gonna die and I’m in for 2 more weeks of terrible shaves.

    AA Mileage: 52 miles. One more rest day today, looking to do a long ride tomorrow morning.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  12. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-12 21:21:41-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 12, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (12)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Super standard shave today. I think the XTG has finally caught up with the WTG in terms of technique. Gonna try my first deliberate ATG tomorrow and report back.

    AA Mileage: 64 miles. Got 12 miles today. Was trying for more, but ended up super gassed after 6 miles and had to make the safe decision to turn around.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  13. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-13 20:08:31-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 13, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (13)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Another bad lather day. Definitely didn’t load enough soap. Did WTG and ATG. The ATG went totally fine on the neck, on my cheeks it really sucked. I think it’s because the lather wasn’t slick enough for the lack of tautness I was able to get on my skin. Not great at the skin stretching thing. So I’ve got new things to practice for a while, but I think this style of razor is going to be ATG on the neck and XTG on the face after the month is over.

    AA Mileage: 64 Miles. Took a day off from the bike to play some pickleball today. Think I way overdid the exercise in the heat this weekend. Really appreciating Sonder today, it’s like a sweet treat capstone on a day that was really hard work. This stuff legit smells like a lemon bar tastes in the best way.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  14. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-14 20:02:46-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 14, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (14)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Only one weeper on the ATG today. It’s crazy how far 14 shaves gets your technique. Today felt like a normal ass DE shave even though I did a complicated WTG + combo X/ATG. Sonder took what would be an otherwise unremarkable shave and made me really reflect on the good parts of my day instead of the bad.

    Today was open house night for parents to come meet teachers and hear about course policies and student expectations. What this really means is that I had to work from 7am to 8pm today. Ended up with a headache around 5pm that never really went away. Day was absolutely made when the parents of a kid I had last year (that I don’t have this year) came and found me to tell me all the good things their kid says about me. Great reminder about how good the good things about my job are even when it feels like the bad is taking over.

    AA Mileage: 64 miles. No time to ride today. See above. Looking forward to tomorrow’s ride.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  15. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-15 06:35:04-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 15, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (15)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Couple positives and a negative. Switched to morning shaves from evening shaves since school starts tomorrow and I want that morning pick me up of shaving before work. First positive, 15 days in and I’ve got the process for a 2 pass Weck shave down to a solid 25 minutes from the 45ish it was taking at the beginning of the month. Second positive, Sonder is a much better morning scent than evening scent. It’s great at night, but man do I feel ready to go today in a way I haven’t yet this month. Only negative, 10 hours between shaves is not enough time for this razor. My face is going to dislike me today.

    AA Mileage: 64 miles. Since I’m switching to morning shaves this will now reflect the prior evening’s ride. Going to do 5 miles tonight to get the week started, but can’t log it yet.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  16. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-16 04:32:07-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 16, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (16)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Good shave today. Not quite as smooth as I’ve been getting the past couple days, had to rush the second pass. First day of school, wish me luck.

    AA Mileage: 72 miles. Planned on 5 miles, got 8. Improvements making themselves obvious already.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  17. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-17 18:06:36-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 17, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (17)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Morning shaves happened once and then I immediately didn’t have time to shave this morning. Back to night shaves it is.

    Absolute fucking auto pilot shave this evening. I’m fucking exhausted after the first two days back in school. Proud that I can autopilot the X/ATG second pass without hurting myself at this point.

    AA Mileage: 78 miles. Skipped yesterday, work was too exhausting. Made myself get 6 miles today. It sucked a lot but I’m glad I did it.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  18. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-18 20:57:24-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 18, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (18)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    First week of school done. It was a great week, but I’m exhausted. Super late night shave today, and I had to force myself to be present in the moment to make sure I got to appreciate it. I didn’t really like how autopilot yesterday’s shave was when the point of this is to enjoy the ritual. I think that little bit of purposeful focus really helped. Did a WTG everywhere, then a XTG on the face and ATG on the neck. This was by far my best shave, so far, with this set up. Not quite BBS (there’s an angle I’d need to hit on the ATG that I’m still afraid of with the Weck, especially while sleep deprived), but definitely up there with my normal Vector shaves. Looking forward to a good night’s sleep.

    AA MIleage: 84 miles. Did a super slow, easy 6 miles today. Not enough energy to do something strenuous, but I like the thought of just getting myself to exercise anyways. Rest day tomorrow, then another long ride Sunday.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  19. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-19 20:53:40-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 19, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (19)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    More late night shaving, another pretty good shave tonight. The 2 passes for this razor are pretty cemented at this point. All that’s left to try is ATG on my face and some trouble spots on my neck that might be not worth the hassle. This is the 3rd day in a row I’ve made a face lather that works for this razor. So I’m not really sure if there’s anything else to try and experiment with on that front.

    AA Mileage: 84 miles. Rest day today, going for a longer ride tomorrow morning.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  20. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-20 11:56:10-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 20, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (20)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Midday shave. Getting too loose with the shave now that I have the muscle memory. Led to a couple nicks on the ATG.

    AA Mileage: 97 miles. Distance PB today. 13 miles without having to redline my heart rate. Should pass my LG total in a couple days.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  21. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-21 20:06:26-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 21, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (21)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Today’s shave sucked. I did a bad job, too loose with the technique, lots of weepers and a good nick on the mustache area. Gonna get made fun of by some high schoolers at work tomorrow for sure. Same passes as the past week-ish. Probably going to be my plan for the rest of the month.

    This blade is definitely starting to die as well. It’s going to be a slog to get through the last 10 shaves. I had the chance to compare it to a fresh blade as well (after I used the Weck for today’s AA shave I did my weekly headshave with the Vector and an AC blade that’s only a couple shaves old) and this Personna is pretty far gone. It’s super tuggy and not cutting hair very well. I’m going to have to really step up my lather game for the rest of the month to keep it alive.

    AA Mileage: 97 miles. Rest day today. Going for 6ish a day the rest of the week.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  22. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-22 19:51:50-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 22, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (22)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Super deliberate, mindful shave today. Managed to have a decent shave in spite of the dying blade thanks to that and some good lather. If I keep up this deliberate approach I think I’ll get to the weekend ok. Next week is gonna be rough.

    AA Mileage: 102 miles. Easy 5 miles today for some daily exercise. Broke 100 miles a solid week early compared to last month. Let’s see how far I can get.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  23. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-23 20:47:07-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 23, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (23)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Rough shave tonight. Wasn’t able to take my time. Did WTG then X/ATG combo on the second pass. Really appreciating Sonder tonight. The splash is starting to put me to sleep since I’m associating the smell with my nightly wind down.

    AA Mileage: 102 miles. No ride today, not enough time in the day today. Grading papers is the worst.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  24. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-24 20:55:48-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 24, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (24)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Tonight’s shave was back to that super middle of the road shave feeling, yet somehow I had absolutely zero splash feedback. I give up trying to guess how the rest of the month is gonna go.

    AA Mileage: 102 miles. Had to skip another day today. It’s way too hot to go out in the afternoons until like an hour before sundown, and it started pouring rain right as that time came around today. Forecast looks good for tomorrow though.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  25. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-25 21:43:55-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 25, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (25)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Decent shave. Blade performance normal, somehow… Gonna go pass out for all weekend now. Too many 12 hour work days this week.

    AA Mileage: 110 miles. Got 8 today. Forced myself to go ride even though I’m exhausted. One more ride this weekend then hopefully every weekday next week to close out the month.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  26. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-26 21:37:48-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 26, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (26)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Nothing of note to today’s shave. Home stretch and I’m ready for it to be over.

    AA Mileage: 110 miles. Last day off of the month. Long ride tomorrow.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  27. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-27 11:42:54-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 27, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (27)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Surprisingly decent shave today considering how terrible my lather was. Way too much water not enough soap. Still ended up pretty slick. I’ve started to notice a pattern in where I get nicks based on the quality of the lather. Super runny are mustache nicks, super pasty are neck nicks. No idea why.

    AA Mileage: 122 miles. Got 12 miles this morning. Glad I went this morning instead of waiting til evening, temperature forecast is a hell scape today. Edit to mention that I passed my LG Mileage today. 5 more days to get to 150. Pretty sure I’ve got this.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  28. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-28 20:07:02-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 28, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (28)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Today’s shave felt great. Then I got to the splash and there was so much feedback. So many micro nicks on my chin from the ATG. I think I’m gonna have one of those weird razor burn hickeys again tomorrow.

    AA Mileage: 128 miles. 6 more today. 3 days to go 22 miles. I think I got this.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  29. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-29 18:39:34-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 29, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (29)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Blade’s dead. Shave sucked. Can’t wait to skip Friday’s shave then spend a week trying a Kismet blade. Two more days!

    AA Mileage: 134 miles. 2 more days, need 16 more miles. I got this.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  30. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-30 20:28:15-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 30, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (30)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    I don’t fucking understand. Today’s shave was good again… totally noseblind to sonder as a soap at this point. The splash is still getting through, but barely. Can’t wait to put this away for a while so I can smell it in full glory again at some point.

    AA Mileage: 144 Miles. 10 miles today, fastest ride of that length so far. We’re getting this 150 boys.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23

  31. u/souleater7173 posted on 2023-08-31 21:05:52-07:00 (Pacific Standard Time). Reddit Comment (See markdown)

    August 31, 2023

    • Brush: Zenith 31mm MOAR BOAR
    • Razor: Weck Sextoblade
    • Blade: Personna Hair Shaper (31)
    • Lather: House of Mammoth – Sonder
    • Post Shave: House of Mammoth – Sonder

    Welp. I did it. This blade got binned so fast after this shave. Going to take a day off from shaving, then do GEMs for a week or two. Looking forward to trying the Weck again with a Kismet sometime in the future. Really feel like I built a new skill and want to keep getting better with nicer blades. I can’t smell the soap anymore. I can still smell the splash. That’s my one lasting complaint with this month, how effective nose-blindness can be.

    AA Mileage: 150 miles! I did it. I missed my goal for literal number of rides (goal was 25 actual was 19), I legit didn’t realize I skipped that many days. Met my mileage goal (goal 150, actual 150). Really proud of my progress so far and looking forward to getting that first 20 miles in one ride some point in the near future.

    Tags: #Monthofweckoning #MammothMafia23