Let's be frank. There was a severe lack of portable toilets along the NYC Marathon course on Sunday

Abdoujaparov wrote:

I was running behind a very quick Italian guy over the Pulaski Bridge and watched him run to the left hand side, whip it out and pee without breaking stride. He left a perfectly horizontal line along the concrete wall for maybe 60 yards. It was magnificent and probably why he ran 2:27.

Not going to lie - that's amazing.

I have yet to do the "pee on the run" thing. Too scared. Maybe I'll try it in Philly in a couple weeks.

I have run 30 Marathons. I have only needed to use a porto-john on one occasion. So that would be once in 786 miles of Marathon racing.

Lanigan, Webster & Malone wrote:

NYC has to up their game in this area.

One way to do it would be to bring back the World's Longest Urinal.

This was a great idea and it is too bad that the NYCM does not have it.

Ha, ha. That came along at 11,000 competitors. I can just imagine how long it would need to be for 50,000 competitors.

Talk about a scene. That was my last NY Marathon. I had enough of when that urinal was put in and the damn orange peels all over the road.

superhumaniguess wrote:

I have run 30 Marathons. I have only needed to use a porto-john on one occasion.

Well how would you have felt if, at the time you needed the port-a-loo there was a line of 3 people in front of it?

The lack of portable loos ruins the race experience for many.

I raced for years and never had to stop to pee but that was awhile back, before they had "corrals" that kept people standing around for so long before the start. I can see how that could create problems.

Abdoujaparov wrote:

I was running behind a very quick Italian guy over the Pulaski Bridge and watched him run to the left hand side, whip it out and pee without breaking stride. He left a perfectly horizontal line along the concrete wall for maybe 60 yards. It was magnificent and probably why he ran 2:27.

I stick an empty Gatorade cup in my pants pee in that while running. Faster than stopping but slower than this guy.

Never Had To wrote:

I raced for years and never had to stop to pee but that was awhile back, before they had "corrals" that kept people standing around for so long before the start. I can see how that could create problems.

well the corrals are surely annoying from a runner's point of view, but it's not that hard to avoid having to pee. drink enough for breakfast, stop drinking say 2 hours before the race. pee before they move you to the start line. then drink half a liter 5 min before the gun goes off.

Those days are gone and never coming back wrote:

Lanigan, Webster & Malone wrote:

NYC has to up their game in this area.

One way to do it would be to bring back the World's Longest Urinal.

This was a great idea and it is too bad that the NYCM does not have it.

They try that today and the SJW's would crucify them for favoring the male runners over the females.

C'mon, be creative. You can go into bodegas and delis, and you cross several rivers. The East River has been New Yorks sewer since the Dutch landed 400 years ago. You could go down an alley. The Plaza Hotel has luxurious crappers. The Apollo Theater would be a fun place to pee. Hell, you could make it part of your race highlights...

Where does one go to rent a thousand Port-a- Crappers anyway?

your a whiner wrote:

Ever heard of? wrote:

...Paula Radcliffe?

I didn't realize Paula Radcliffe was running the 2017 NYC Marathon! I guess I missed that.

Google what Paula did in her heyday ye little snowflake....

wineturtle wrote:

Where does one go to rent a thousand Port-a- Crappers anyway?

That town needs an enema.

#ItWillMoveYou

Please don't call me Frank

wineturtle wrote:

Where does one go to rent a thousand Port-a- Crappers anyway?

not certain.

But if the World's Longest Urinal reappeared at the start then NYRR wouldn't have to worry about renting 1000s of portable loos.