peeing in a bottle while stuck in the NYCM corral...is that really a thing?

That's a whole lot of free "Gatorade" for thirsty entrants at the start line, if you use an orange or yellow bottle.

Yeah it's a real thing to do but make sure you are wearing longer shorts or pants so you don't expose yourself. Also there are bathrooms in the corral but it's super crowded so not ideal.

Peeing into the bottle is easy, squeezing a deuce in there is the hard part.

That's why I always bring my own, stool certified bottle.

Nyc'er wrote:

Yeah it's a real thing to do but make sure you are wearing longer shorts or pants so you don't expose yourself. Also there are bathrooms in the corral but it's super crowded so not ideal.

I am probably going to wear some big old sweats into the corral (assuming it's cold out), so it should be easy to work within them!

Proper procedure requires an empty Mt. Dew bottle. Diet Mt. Dew may be substituted. No other empty drink containers have been approved by the NYRR container committee at this time.

Can I get DQd for this? (Corral 1)

New York Noob wrote:

Can I get DQd for this? (Corral 1)

Would it be easier to use an adult diaper? Take it off a few minutes before the start?

Take a blanket (that you will leave to be picked up for the homeless) and wrap it around you to shield your urination. You can use the blanket to keep warm also or to sit on. There's surprisingly quite a bit of grass in the corral area. Anyway, that's what I did in 2007. It worked great.

There will be guys peeing off the bridges after starting the race. Run in the middle of the road on the bridge during the first mile or you may get wet.

Wear a black plastic trash bag over your head. It will keep you warm, and give you a personal private toilet. Rip it off as the race starts and you're good to go. Did this at Boston several years ago and it worked like a charm.

There are porta-johns in the corrals, so you will be fine until about 9:00 or so. But for the first wave you are on the bridge for 30-40 minutes before the start. Bottles are popular and so too watering the buses that divide the Orange and Blue starts. People were even doing it on camera near the elite start with spectators on top of the tour buses. A decent number of women were joining in too squatting between buses.

Anyway, you could in theory get DQ'ed for doing this, but there is safety in numbers with hundreds of people doing it.

Yes, it is a real thing.

NY corral vet wrote:

Peeing into the bottle is easy, squeezing a deuce in there is the hard part.

That's why I always bring my own, stool certified bottle.

Watched multiple women subelites sh!t by the trees in the A corral one year in Chicago, as there were no portas. Also have seen people bring milk cartons to deuce down.

road rashed wrote:

NY corral vet wrote:

Peeing into the bottle is easy, squeezing a deuce in there is the hard part.

That's why I always bring my own, stool certified bottle.

Watched multiple women subelites sh!t by the trees in the A corral one year in Chicago, as there were no portas. Also have seen people bring milk cartons to deuce down.

I pinched a loaf one time by the trees outside of the A corral, it might have been the same year because 2 women were at the trees either side of me.

Things like this make me question why non-elites would ever want to do big marathons.

I usually use a Mickey's Widemouth beer bottle, it's the only thing I can get my c0ck into.

I used a Gatorade bottle without a problem in the first corral a few years ago. Just be subtle. The gross part was the guy next to me asked to use it after I was done.

I've done this at every marathon I have run. Works like a charm.