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?!

I remember seeing a tv programme when a well-known runner stopped for a poo - cameras were pointing elsewhere while runner stopped by roadside then continued, while commentator merely remarked politely and explained that this was usual practice during races. Disgusting indeed.

Who goes jogging with a trowel?!

Who goes jogging with a trowel?!

People who plan to shit outside.

Disgusting cow bag.
What the fk is this world coming to.
I hope she doesn`t have kids.

I hope she doesn't have kids

Why?

I think this is pretty common. If it's in the countryside and way off the main path I can get worked up about it. It'll just biodegrade like any other poop.

That is really disgusting.

I remember reading some years ago about a big city (not in the UK) where many dog owners had to take their dogs to the vet because many drug addicts would do their stinky business in the bushes, dogs would eat the human waste and get sick from the narcotics in it. I was so disgusted by that story that I still remember it 🤢.

Your friend is being really grim if she just leaves it behind (no pun intended).

Amazon has a whole range of teeny shovels

to deliberately sit and down and have a shite out doors is pretty disgusting. Is it not also an offence.

It is disgusting - and should be picked up. An earlier posters dogs rolled in human faeces. I have one little bugger who would probably eat it if she got the chance!

specialist running leggings that hold it all in

These interest me grumpyhoon - I'd never heard of them.

As far as I am aware "wild" campers take a shovel when they need to poop in the woods with the bears. If it's not thoroughly buried it should be picked up.

My parents stopped talking to our neighbours after we found their granddaughter taking a dump with her friend in our garden.

I hope that they picked it up with a bag and then smeared the filth all over the neighbours' windows and front door, in view of the fact that none of them would clean it up.

@Nixen

YABU to start a thread about this.

Why the heck do you think people need to hear about this/read this?

I'd wondered about all the shit in our local forest, and now my questions have been answered. i'd have thought that if you're doing something that makes you uncontrollably need to shit yourself perhaps you should rethink doing

If it's somewhere that nobody would ever see you, and you clear up after yourself, then why is it disgusting?

Except we’re discussing a news story where a runner is pooing beside peoples cars, another poster has said they find poo and toilet roll on their drive, someone has uploaded a video of a runner shitting themselves and others mention other runners doing the same. So, no, I don’t think we can assume the runner in question is going off into the woods with a trowel.

The fact that PP have posted about other runners & drive-shitters is nothing to do with the runner being discussed in the thread. So, nether can you assume that she is inevitably a dirty shitter. That's conflating the original subject with other people's experiences, which have no relevance or insight about OP's friend.

If it's somewhere that nobody would ever see you, and you clear up after yourself, then why is it disgusting?

Come on don't spoil the thread. This is batshit crazy mumnet after all. (No pun)

I still want to know how people know the difference between dog poo and human poo and fox poo. Somebody tell me please.

So, nether can you assume that she is inevitably a dirty shitter

Which I didn’t do. The post of mine that you quoted was discussing campers.

drug addicts would do their stinky business in the bushes, dogs would eat the human waste and get sick from the narcotics in it

Really ?

If this is a poo troll, this thread isn't going to last much longer.

BTW, could you please pass a trowel to every runner/jogger you meet in case they get caught short before they get home. Get some cheap trowels from the garden centre and hand them out for free.

@MissDew

Yes really. Another article about it was published a while ago. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/05/02/waar-junks-hurken-achter-de-bosjes-worden-de-honden-stoned-a3958789

It’s in Dutch but you can use Google translate

That’s just eeeew

I accidentally soiled myself when I had an explosion waiting at the railway for the gates to lift.

I was so embarrassed though luckily I was wearing a long coat so no one saw...

I couldn’t imagine doing it somewhere on purpose

So would running be a good cure for constipation?

@MustShowDH
Oh that's embarrassing 😂

My disgusting brother used to take a plastic shopping bag and a loo roll incase he got caught short whilst waiting on his bus he hop in to a field or behind the bus shelter as we live rurally, hed chuck the bag of shit on the bus stop roof as it was old stone with a felt roof

I think if I was frequently needing to crap whilst running I’d but a treadmill and crap at home!

I think if I was frequently needing to crap whilst running I’d but a treadmill and crap at home!

Sounds messy.

Crowns disease. Irritable bowel disease. Coeliac disease. Ulcerative colitis.
There are lots of people who have difficulty with controlling their bowels.
Good on them for getting out and trying to keep fit. A lot of those conditions are linked to depression so they are trying to help both their physical and mental health.

Ha! This used to happen to me when I was running in woods v v v early in the morning and I'd only go if I knew I couldn't make it to a loo. Do people really do this on paths? I'd rather soil myself.

Once I had a really desperate need to go, but I'd just turned into my friend's street and had the longest slow hobble to her door terrified that I wouldn't make it. I basically had to wake her up at 6.30am so I could poo in her loo. For shame!