I am a cross country runner who began training a month or so ago and havent had any trouble with this until now. Recently, every single one of my runs has been interrupted by me having to go to the bathroom. I have to cut my run short or hop into the nearest gas station. Either way, it's a major inconvenience. I've heard of this happening before but have no idea what the reasons for this could be. If anyone has any advice I would greatly appreciate it.
you could be dehydrated
i had that problem too. now, i just take a bunch of dumps during the day at work so by the time i get out for the run, i have nothing in the system. now i never have problems and i feel really light.
Same thing has happened to me during some of my long runs. I usually get to about mile 7 or so, on my 10 miler and yep sometimes you just got to go. I ended up starting to take imodium AD just to plug it up for a couple hours. Ever since trying this about a month and a half ago, I haven't had a problem yet.
Oh and most of my teammates, we used to call this runners diareah
it's one of the earliest and most common symptoms of overtraining
plodding? wrote:
it's one of the earliest and most common symptoms of overtraining
Could be overtraining, except when it was happening to me, I was just getting back into the swing of things. Although I did increase my mileage big time within the first two weeks. The imodium works great, but watch the mileage jump like plodding stated earlier, it does kinda make sense. Good Luck on your "runs"
does it go away after a while or does it just continue?
what do you mean by "goes away"?
the guy had mentioned that its a sign of overtraining, so i was just wondering that if you continued to overtrain if he bathroom breaks stopped or just continued.
Well the interesting part is that I actually am not running that many miles, 60 right now, and building up to 75ish.
cmu_xc wrote:
Good Luck on your "runs"
plodding? wrote:
it's one of the earliest and most common symptoms of overtraining
could you please elaborate? why is it a sign of overtraining?
I dunno, friend, but i'd rethink using an anti-diarrheal drug on a regular basis as a way of dealing with the problem. Just my $0.02
Everything is a symptom of overtraining.
This happens to me quite frequently. At first I let it ruin my runs like you, but then I wised up. Just because you have to drop a large deuce doesn't mean that you need to stop the run.
Throw caution to the wind my friend and free your bowels. This sometimes takes a time to get used to but I realized that if I opened the underwear flap of my shorts and let my pebbles out right after launching then I didn't have to stop at all. My wife isn't too fond of cleaning my pooey shorts but who cares when you're runs are going so well!!
I'll bet the higher temps have something to do with it. The body starts shuntig blood here and there when the internal temperature starts inching up. Try to stay hydrated and run at cooler times or shadier routes.
change the name of the thread. i read nothing about a '32 Ford changing your running.
east bay cracka wrote:
change the name of the thread. i read nothing about a '32 Ford changing your running.
You can do better than that!
I was running the other day on some trails and I felt this terrible pressure and gurgling in my stomach. About 15 minutes later crap just started coming out like a waterfall but I just kept running because I had a really good rythm going. My legs were covered in shit and my shoes were pretty squishy. People on the trails looked on in horror but I didn't care cause I knew I could beat them in a road race due to my relentless training. Not even a gushing bowel movement can stop these arms and legs from pumpin'!!