AIBU to think this is disgusting (needing a poo while on a run)

[Nixen]

Not a poo troll I promise, just ... staggered(!) that one of my friends disagrees with me on this and wanted to gauge opinion!

Don’t ask how the subject came up but my friend H (herself a keen runner) mentioned in response to a news article that her friend J stops for poos during her run ... ‘ She has a stomach issue, running makes her poo 🤷‍♀’ apparantly J takes wet wipes with her but H has never asked if J takes dog poo bags / nappy bags with her, so we’re not sure if she picks it up or just leaves it.

H really really doesn’t see the issue, thinks it’s super judgey to think this is disgusting, says dogs bird etc all poo outside. My view point is that things like this are what separates us from the animals!

Of course if J had an accident and was cut short / poorly I would be so sympathetic, how horrible, but to habitually choose to do this - I think that’s grim!

What do you think mumsnet? Am I really being unreasonable?!

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I don’t think any runners are squatting on public sidewalks or alleyways, but I could be wrong.

I often run / hike in my local Forest.

Who says anything about a, using wipes, and if they do, b, not taking them home with them. Not one person on this thread has said anything other than if they have go outside they take 'leave as you find it' measures.

I go walking in the countryside most weeks and by that I mean proper countryside, not a few trees next to the motorway with cafes, toilets and visitors centres all around them and it's not littered with used wipes because people either don't use them in the first place, or they take whatever wipes, tissue etc away with them.

Whoops pressed too soon.

I was going to say:

Sometimes Mother Nature calls.

There’s a reason human beings are naturally good at squatting and it’s not because we squat on a loo.

Surely, if she loves running, get a running machine at home or wear an incontinent pad whilst running.
It’s bad enough trying to avoid dog mess without having to avoid human matter as well.
Surely she could time her run to when she’s already recently opened her bowls. Of run on the door at home for a bit. Open her bowels, then go for a run outdoors.

Just because your name is Barbara and you run doesn’t make shiting outside posh

Digging a hole, shitting in it and covering it up, in the woods miles from anywhere is fine.

But I live very rurally and we are used to all kinds of poo everywhere.

I run and have dreadful problems with runners diarrhoea. I can't make myself go on demand before I go out running.
It can happen literally after half a mile so short runs would be very short.
I take wipes and poo bags and luckily live somewhere very rural and go off the path behind a tree.
It is not about being deliberately disgusting its the motion and build up of lactic acid that causes it.
I am surprised at the vitriolic responses on here as defecating is a normal bodily function. It's not disgusting or dirty.
I clean up after myself.
It's not always possible to find a public loo or make it home and the thought of defacating into my underwear and then running on is not appealing.

as long as she is bagging and binning I don’t see the problem?

Again as long as she’s discreet and not defecating outside a playground why should she be denied the pleasure of a run because she’s got an unusual reaction to it?

Shit is perfectly biodegradable. As long as it's not going to get trodden in then it doesn't bother me at all.

Some people on here need to get dirty once in a while!

I’m not surprised by the vitriolic responses jellybean - mumsnet loves a bit ‘eeewww disgusting!’.

These posters aren’t runners. They don’t get it. There’s no point trying to extol the virtues of your pastime to screwed up faces.

It’s bad enough to see a little toddler weeing outside when caught short but an adult no just no.

Hahahaha what? You need to unclench.

Somewhere lonely/ in a ditch is okay imo. An urban park clearly not (but then it will be possible to find a toilet anyway).

MN is a strange judgy place. Judged for being over a size 8 as 'overweight' (even if you happen to be 6'2) but you aren't allowed to go for a run outside in case of normal bodily function. After all even in a forest a dog could roll in it (amongst millions of other nasties including dog shit). So a dog being walked is apparently more important than a human exercising who should clearly stay inside eating salad and jogging on their treadmill. Just bizarre.

why should she be denied the pleasure of a run because she’s got an unusual reaction to it?

It isn't an unusual reaction. If you run it gets things going I assume it's the motion. I don't particularly like running or have any bowel issues but it has happened to me - I was near a station though so could use the toilet.

I might have to name change after this, but I run out in the bush in Western Oz, so proper wilderness, but was caught out once and had to go. (Un)fortunately I run with my dog who promptly ate it right in front of me, which made me throw up. Still get the boak thinking about it.

det 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hahahaahaaa!
Oh dogs...they are amazing, purest friendship you’ll ever know...but oh my god they are mingers.

She could take a mini shovel with her and dig a hole.
Or do what Paula Radcliffe did and shit her pants

I think if running sets of Ibs then don't do it, find a gentle exercise.

I think if running sets of Ibs then don't do it, find a gentle exercise

That’s the thing though - it doesn’t always do that!

@DetMcnulty 🤣 👏
Do dogs only eat human faeces or will any do.

Yep! Adore him, but my God he's grim. My dp never walks him, so my revenge is not telling him the gross things the dogs eaten then laughing inside as he's having his face licked off.

@EmeraldShamrock

My dog was formerly a keen consumer of sheep, rabbit and occasionally other dog poo. Not sure if he ever experienced the pleasure of human.

Thankfully, we managed to train him out of coprophagia.

A taxi driver in my town was caught on cctv taking a poo next to a busy bingo hall. Nappy wipes, wet wipes whole kit. Must do it often. I don't get it. Surely you'd just find a toilet? I have digestive issues and sympathise with people being caught short. Can't leave house without a loo plan

I don't have ibs... Running causes a need to open bowels for two reasons. One the shaking motion and two lactic acid.
It happens to me every run.. On treadmill, outside, anywhere.
And if we are going to say that dogs rolling in poo means no one must ever defacate outside.. Are we going to start saying horse riders need to get off and bag up their horses poo too? As my dogs roll in horse poo all the time, my lanes and paths full of horse poo.
And then what about sheep.. My dogs eat sheep poo, can the farmer come out and clear all that up please too

Emerald, he's partial to cat and kangaroo poo also, quite the connoisseur is my boy.

Tbf horses are vegetarian and their poo is fairly harmless.