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

Sounds messy.

I really hope they stop the thread mill first! 💩

*treadmill!

I can’t help it, every time I see Paula Radcliffe I think ‘poo’.

Runners trotts is a very common complaint. I have suffered crippling cramps while running as have many runners I know.
In woodland where you can conceal yourself I have disappeared......I also know many who have done the same.
Paula Radcliffe had a famous incident during a race.

Only a runner will not judge really as they just know 💩

My friend is a runner. It’s quite common to poo ‘on the go’. Apparently you don’t want to affect your time 🤷🏼‍♀️. Once someone did it at the start line and people had to jump over it as they set off 🤢

Imodium before a long run should solve it.

Completely unnecessary to plan to shit outside IMO (different in an emergency situation), if you choose to go for a run you should take this into account and plan your route accordingly.

I don’t think there’s any excuse for shitting outside, there isn’t one rule for runners and one for everyone else!

There was a guy in Brisbane, Australia terrorizing his local community with his daily run poo. Aptly names pop jogger. He was caught red handed and lost his job.

It's sooo gross.

Recently a friend told me, her friend pood outside on the street after a nightclub. Equally as weird.

Blimey, it's obvious that very few on here are endurance runners. By the nature of the hobby you are out running for hours in fields, woodland and on trails. If the urge to go comes and you are miles away from buildings and toilets, you absolutely have to have a jungle poo. And it would always be off the beaten track.

Blimey, it's obvious that very few on here are endurance runners.

It took a thread about pooing on runs to make that obvious to you? It’s Mumsnet, not runsnet. why would there be more than a few endurance runners here?

Only a runner will not judge really as they just know

er, nope! The VAST majority of runners will either hold it in or bag it. I'm not ashamed that I've had to poo in a bag behind a bush and put it in the dog poo bin, I was 6 months pregnant and couldn't hold it in - thing is, I knew that could happen so I took a bag and wipes with me just in case. Yeah, cringy, but then so much of pregnancy and giving birth is yuck that you get over it.

OP, your friend is disgusting leaving poo for animals to roll in - even if it's not on the path it's gross for dog walkers.

Blimey, it's obvious that very few on here are endurance runners

Fuck off immediately, I've done an Ironman, several marathons and various other endeavours such as Tough Guy, Tough Mudder etc. I'd still not shit in public and leave it.

It’s Mumsnet, not runsnet 😁

If you can’t run without shatting on someone’s land then stop running. It’s vile.

OP states that J has a stomach issue and running makes her poo. Do we really expect that people with stomach issues stay at home and don't get the exercise they need. Many people suffer fecal incontinence and lead very sad restricted lives because they are so afraid of other people's judgemental attitudes to their condition. I would rather that J took a shit under a bush and lived as normal a life as possible.

stay home and not get the exercise they need. . Who suggested that? It was suggested that if you feel you might need to shit outdoors, you make other arrangements as to when and where you take your exercise. Like a gym, for example, with access to a toilet.
Like the rest of us, stomach issues or not.

Why do we expect people to pick up their dog's poop, but not their own poop? Regardless of whether it's on a path or in bushes to the side. I hope the subject of the original post not only carries wet wipes but also a bag, scoops her poop, and then runs on until she finds a bin for it.

Blimey, it's obvious that very few on here are endurance runners

“Unlike me with my Superior Fitness Regime which means Normal Standards of Decency Need Not Apply”

I can’t see how shitting out in the great wide open is any different to shitting in the middle of Piccadilly Circus, which would unsurprisingly likely get you arrested

Maybe there is an issue regarding feacal incontinence and running? This was actually discussed in woman's hour in the last couple of days.

Yawn. So many people who obviously never stray from cities and their own front door and have perfectly predictable bowels so that they can always time when they go and plan their lives around their toilet habits.

If you were ever out in the wilds miles from anywhere and you literally have a shit falling out of your arse, what else can you do, and exactly who does it affect it you deal with it well away from paths literally in the middle of nowhere?

'Maybe there is an issue regarding feacal incontinence and running? This was actually discussed in woman's hour in the last couple of days.'
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She should wear an adult nappy then, filthy person*

havelockvetinari the OP has no idea if the woman leaves it or not. This is all conjecture.
To the poster who sees no difference between in the middle of nowhere and the middle of Piccadilly Circus - that must be the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time.

So many people who obviously never stray from cities

I don't even have mains drainage. My shit sits in a septic tank underneath the garden, where it merrily rots away.

I can’t see how shitting out in the great wide open is any different to shitting in the middle of Piccadilly Circus, which would unsurprisingly likely get you arrested

Well if you shit somewhere busy where people walk routinely, they'll get shit on their shoes. They'll trample this wherever they walk. They risk faecal contamination, bringing with it various health hazards. If you shit in the woods, off track, it will rot down, in all probability undiscovered by any other human being. So one is a potential health hazard, the other is harmless. HTH.

I do long distance runs in remote places and sadly the need does arise very occasionally, I really am miles from anywhere, the idea of planning a route near a cafe when you're running 20 miles in the Highlands is just totally impractical. I wouldn't dream of leaving wipes behind though and make sure I go a really long way off any path. It's horrid but it happens, the idea of restricting myself to a treadmill forever is just incomprehensible tbh.

Boak

I sharted the one and only time I tried running