Occasionally I'll be on a long run and need an emergency place to poo... I've found people's backyard gardens come in handy, and there's usually some nice sized leaves to wipe with too!
Occasionally I'll be on a long run and need an emergency place to poo... I've found people's backyard gardens come in handy, and there's usually some nice sized leaves to wipe with too!
It was raining the other day. I had to pee. Didn't wanna stop. Middle of the city. So I filled my shorts and it was glorious.
What works for me is drinking a glass of water as soon as I get up, doing some calisthenics (I usually do 25-30 jumping jacks and maybe 5-10 pushups), shaving (not because that has anything to do with crapping, just that it takes a few minutes), and then dropping a deuce. I thought that I would never get over this issue but that seems to have done the trick.
If you do have a bowel movement in the woods,do not wipe yourself with poison oak. I learned one that the hard way.
Yo Momma wrote:
Carry TP in a sandwich baggie. Put it in your pocket.
Remember which pocket was which before eating your lunch.
worst poster wrote:
ex runner wrote:You must be new to running. Welcome!
I bet that over the course of my career, I had to shit one out of every 3 runs. Get used to it; carry TP.
See a doctor, that doesnt sound normal.
I have had to stop maybe one run in my life for this reason.
Maybe I'm the outlier, but that doesn't sound normal to me either. I know everyone is different, but I can't remember ever having to drop a deuce on a run. But it reminds me of the time I was drinking at my neighbor's house with some of his friends whom I had never met before. One of the guys all of a sudden blurts out " You've never really been drunk until you crap your pants when passed out ". I start laughing uncontrollably (since i have never crapped my pants while drunk and thought the idea absurd)... and another guy says " You've never crapped your pants while drunk?" And between laughs I say "no". And then a third guy says, "I can't believe you never crapped your pants while drunk, I do a couple of times a year!". Apparently, by these guys standards - I have never been drunk. I can live with that.
Keith Stone wrote:
When you get up in morning get something in your system right away. Some water, juice, whatever. I find if I get up and brush me teeth then drink a full glass of water I flush things out pretty good. Your intestines have to wake up too, so do something right away to get them on the job.
Now the day's going to come that you're going to have to fertilize someone's yard anyway but at least you can cut down the odds.
This. I can't roll out of bed and go straight into a run, I'll have to drop deuce by 10 minutes in. I have to be up for 20-30 minutes before. I usually pound a quarter of a nalgene before i roll out of bed, have a banana, and then have some more water. It straight up is the intestines need to wake up to, and I feel as if my mind knows how to tell me my body is about to run cause I'm usually able to squeeze one out.
This past semester I was having pooping problems on my afternoon runs, but I think it was based upon my diet. My lunch every day usually consisted of a PBJ, apple, banana, and clementine. I think all that fruit fiber made my pooey all gooey and wanting to come out during a run.
J.R. wrote:
Loop back to the start, do your business, then continue on with your run.
Agreed. Because maple leafs are rather substandard TP.