Has anyone here consciously made the decision to poop themselves to achieve a PR like the lady in this article?

Oh, so that means women poop after all?

I have gotten the rumbles and barely made it to a toilet or bush during training runs and must say that when a poop hits during a run, it is never a tidy thing for me. I can't imagine the mess of doing that in my pants and to decide to do this at 13.1 of a marathon would be a complete disaster. No amount of body glide would protect me from that.

I think she crapped herself for a marathon, she crapped at the half marathon mark though

Oh, I read that wrong. She pooped her pants at the 13-mile mark and then ran another 13 miles in her own feces. I saw all of the thirteens and assumed half marathon. My bad.

Still, if you're going to sh*t yourself, you'd better break 3 hours.

While we are on the graphic subject, I wonder if her form altered in the second half trying to 🎤🎶🥁shake it off… shake it off🎵🥁🎸

Just imagine her competitors. She was fast enough in the race that some top female competitors had to follow behind her. Wondering where the smell is coming from. This is really gross. She was fast but not fast enough to matter.

Your Damn right I ordered the Code Brown!!

That's better than any 8k runner I know would do.

Nope, I stopped at a port-a-potty my last 2 marathons. Cost me at least 2 minutes each race. I can live with that.

I had to peel off to the porta potty at mile 4 of a half marathon. Seat was absolutely filthy so hovered over and squatted for close to a minute. However that minute of squatting was enough to have my quads get real heavy and tight at mile 8. Ended up 3 minutes slower than I wanted.

I've run close to 2:50 but I wouldn't shaat myself even for a chance to run a 2:49.

Me too last two Bostons but it cost me only about 25 seconds based on mile splits. Lots of ready options on that course.
I did let a small one drop at mile 8 of a half once -- not for a PR but just a solid time. My socks turned brown and it was gross but I placed (AG only) and that was worth it for me. Cleaned up in a portapottie and threw my shorts out back at the hotel.

I was in a group of three in fourth or fifth place on a two loop course and don't recall exactly where on the two-loop course it was but the area was wide open on the outskirts of the city.

But I had to go. The other two guys were following me, so I moved out, faked a slowdown, then quickly moved to the side, pulled my shorts down, squatted and let go, counting 8-9-10-11, got back on the road and took off.

I was probably moving too fast at that point as I caught them in 3/4 of a mile, moved clear with two miles to go and finished in second place overall. It was my second fastest marathon at the time, just missing the temporary PR that I'd gotten three weeks earlier.

Not deliberately, but I once did this around the halfway point of a 30 K race. I was suddenly hit by the need to go and there were no port-a-potties in sight, nor was there any obvious place to pull off and hide behind a bush or something--we were running through a densely populated commercial/residential area. At the time I was in third place among the women and there was a small amount of prize money at stake, and I sure didn't want to basically quit the race in search of a restroom far off the course. It happened, and it was gross. Fortunately it was raining and most runners had some splashes of mud on their legs, so maybe it wasn't obvious to anyone else. I finished the race, picked up my modest cash prize, and found a sympathetic volunteer who hosed me off with a garden hose so that I could tolerate sitting in the car for a 3 hour drive home. Not one of my finest hours.

I feel like if it does come down to this, why not just poop by the roadside instead? It can’t be a crime, right? And the embarrassment can’t be worse than running with soiled shorts. The race organizers and/or the city ought to be responsible for cleaning up runners shîte.

Maybe not your finest hour, but this strikes me as a marker for a woman that has the grit to do what needs to be done. Special gal

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