to think you can't just crap in the street!!

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DH has just come back from a run and sheepishly told me that he took a dump in a bush. Again. This is not the first time. It doesn't happen regularly, but it has happened. How can he think this is ok??

He says he has no choice. I asked him, if he was surrounded by people watching him he would have held it, and he said 'yes, but I would have had to end my run'. So finishing a run is more important than not crapping in public???

He asked me to post because he thinks he will be validated. I know he wont. There is no way this is normal or ok. Judge him hard.

Don't run. Problem solved.

By bush I'm presuming you mean some sort of trail path/embankment area where foxs and squirrels etc live and poo all the time too? And that it is all covered up ready to biodegrade, and not anywhere that someone would step in? unlike a dog poo left in the middle of a playing field or a footpath which people then step in? Like a camping poo?

I run and I have IBS

I have NEVER crapped in the street - he is being vile

So, op, is he going to go back and clear it up?

And if not, why not?

In defence of runners!
Yes, it happens occasionally (like OP said, 3 times in 15 years for her DH, and about the same for me)
No, you can't predict or plan when it might happen
Yes, it is bloody painful. Not just a 'oh, I think I need a poo' feeling. Really spasm-y stomach cramps like when you have a terrible bug.

If he hid behind a bush, it isn't that bad, and not 'crapping in the street'.
Certainly not as bad as the mum I saw holding her DS over a drain in a supermarket carpark so he could have a crap. It was Sainsburys as well. Oh humanity!

sparechange - at least it wasn't Waitrose .

I don't think they have drains in Waitrose carparks.
They have uniformed staff who suck the rainwater away in straws

So he is interested in his own health and too selfish to care about anyone else's ?

ConferencePear, that is a slight over reaction!
No one is going to die from a cholera outbreak because one bloke has a poo in a bush, where hundreds nay thousands of wild animals will have pooed before him!

DH is a triathlete and it IS a thing which happens. DH has never done it to my knowledge but when you're on a rural training run and the urge hits, it's impossible to ignore.

You need to hang around with more hardcore triathletes/runners/athletes.

There's a difference between choosing to poo in the street and having an urgent need to go brought on by exercise and there being no facilities available.

My good friend is the fittest person I know, a RAF fitness trainer, triathlete and runner and she cannot go running without it happening, regardless of going before the run starts. She takes stuff with her so she can bag and dispose but she isn't disgusting or abnormal, she's a serious athlete.

If he has to do it then bag it, and 3 times in 15 years isnt a lot but it is enough for him to know that it could happen and be prepared.

Whats his view on people not bagging dog shit?

Why does he not work out a route that passes a public toilet?

Hmmmm, it is a phenomenon known as "runners trots". I'm afraid running for a decent distance does seem to promote that sort of bodily reaction. Yes, I try to go before I run, and no I've never had to resort to poohing in the bushes, and if I was running a 10k race with thousands of others I'd hope I could find a proper facility.

Out in the woods, miles from home, with no-one around? I understand your husband's actions. It's just fertiliser, really, isn't it?

I think the issue isnt so much that he needed to go but that he cheerfully left it where it was.

Seriously?

I'm a runner. I've done marathons. I've been running for more than 20 y ears. I have never crapped anywhere other than on a toilet.

You're right sparechange, but I do think that you are more likely to catch a human disease from a fellow human. Flies and all that.
I'm surprised by how common this is and if the runners genuinely can't help it I think that they should 'go equipped'. We expect people to do that with their dogs.

It's not uncommon among long distance athletes.
Doesn't bother me as long as it's as thrown into unaccessible bushes as a dog turd would be (middle of brambles or nettles, etc.).
Minging if it was left in someone's garden, though.

But how can it be healthy?
I thought running = healthy body.
Being unable to control your bowels is surely the complete opposite.

Ew. I couldn't do this, I'd get stage-fright. My bum would clamp shut.

I had my gutters and facia's/soffits or whatever they are called done on my house a few years back, and I was surprised that the chaps doing it never came in to use the bathroom. I even said once "I'm popping out do you want a key in case you need the loo" but they said no. I figured they might have a piss-bucket in their van or something. One doesn't like to speculate.

Then a week or so after they'd gone I went round to the side of the property and was overwhelmed by a stench of stale urine. They had been piddling down the side of my property!!!

I can't believe it, I felt so violated. Particularly as the main one had propositioned me for extra-marital

Get him some adult nappies. Re-usables if you want to be eco-friendly.

I am camp, walk, fish and I don't see the problem with digging a hole in anywhere that there is soil and doing what you need to do. I have done this is park bushes, close by to where I have been fishing. They had to close the public toilets because of them being a regular place where group sex was taking place. "Disgusting", ridiculous attitude to have where there are foxes, rabbits etc, but you probably wouldn't understand unless you have outdoor hobbies.

Birds you are talking about digging a hole and therefore hiding it. This guy pooed and just left it. Why is that ok for him and not for a dog?

Just to add, I have my dog with me, whose poo I have to bag because she doesn't let me know she needs to poo in time for me to dig a hole and then she wouldn't balance above it, that is the difference. Poo buried, no harm done. Children should be kept out of bushes they are usually full of rubbish and discarded drug equipment. It isn't people pooing that is ruining the environment.

I agree that the OP should be telling him to dig a hole, which can be done with a stick or large stone, but it wouldn't be that difficult to carry something to dig with, which people who have outdoor hobbies, usually do.

I love mn!

nightskythe pic of the guy running with it streaming down his thighs is just so rank.

Back from my run. No poo ing in bushes required.

But is the OP Dh really a hard core runner though? Because if he was I would imagine that the Op would have already being filled in with that sort of stuff and wouldn't post?

And this different if your are in the countryside (lots of animals, few people walking past) and in a bush in an urban area (More people, less animals and a very high risk to be spotted!). First I could understand (I would put it under the same things than having a wee/poo during a day long walk).
Second is just disgusting. Seriously would any of you agree to see a toddler having a poo 'in the bushes' because he can't quite make it back home/nearest loo? Or would you expect the mum to have a potty with her at the very least? Can you imagine if all parents with young children though it was OK to tell their dcs 'Oh yes that's fine dd/ds. Have a poo here, it will be fine' showing the bushes next to the pavement?

BTW it's not because a small group of hard core runners think it's OK to do so (out of a race situation) that it means it actually IS OK to do so....