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 don't think I'm going to be able to wander through the forest again without scanning for shitting runners like a grim Where's Wally?

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

Laughing at this thread.

Disgusting IMO to poo outside. But I have enjoyed this thread.

I’ve seen a male runner do this. Squatting by a bush 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮

At least 40% of human beings alive today do 'wild' or 'open' defecation, daily (lack of any sort of decent sanitation). It's fairly normal. No matter how horrified this thread is.

Absolutely disgusting. The friend needs to get herself to a urologist/gynaecologist. She obviously has issues.

Running makes you want to poo. No matter who you are. It isn’t a medical issue. 🙄🙄

Trail running fair enough, anyone who hikes or runs long distance may need to use the woodland facilities! But in a park, no, find a toilet in a cafe, petrol station etc

Ps when long distance hiking you take a trowel!

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 quite, people should just pop into the nearest McDonalds, after all, there's one every mile or so in the Scottish Highlands, Pennines and all the other wildernesses, along with legions of people stood there watching and waiting to be offended by someone discreetly answering the call of nature. Oh, wait....

Out riding my horse we stumbled across a chap having a crap. He seemed to think that I should be the one to be embarrassed.

Male entitlement knows no bounds.

Why are you getting your knickers in a twist over something you don't actually know whether she does? Aren't you busy enough?

The friend needs to get herself to a urologist/gynaecologist.

(Wrong hole, dear)

This thread is quite funny. I’m not a member of a running club or anything like that...I run alone for the majority, although I do have two friends whom I meet up with for the odd social run or organised event. I haven’t discussed the call of nature with other runners.

Experian - I was just thinking that some posters on here might not quite comprehend the utter remoteness of places we can choose to run in, in Scotland. England is simply more densely populated.

If ever we needed confirmation that the MN demographic are city dwelling anti hobby pearl clutchers this thread is it!! 🤣🤣🤣

Mumsnet is very anti hobby actually...I have noticed that too. If it’s not childish it’s selfish and there’s one thing it certainly is not...and that’s necessary.

Frown on shitting in public and your anti hobby

Unrelated imo
Shitting in public is grim full stop.

If you can’t run without shitting buy a bike.

Mumsnet is not anti-hobby. It's constantly brought up as a suggestion for people who are depressed or single or lonely..."do you have any hobbies?" "Why not try Parkrun?" "My local WI is very friendly".

It's anti thinking that the hobby should take precedent over everything else in life.

Y'know like the right to walk your kids to school or have them play outdoors without them stepping in human faeces because "no, I can't possibly interrupt my run to find a toilet or heaven forbid pick up my own shit. My running is more important than anything else!"

To be fair, that’s an outlandish example. No one is jobby-dodging on the school run are they?

Because there's loads of DCs on the school run and generally playing a few tens of yards off the upland paths that people are talking about using for a wilderness shit.

They're right next to the public toilets that we're ignoring because we'd rather shit behind a bush.

For the avoidance of doubt, I've only done it when absolutely desperate and it's coming out anyway, there's no one around to see, there's no toilets for several miles and I'm on foot and the once I did manage to hold it in, because there were other people around, it caused considerable discomfort and wouldn't come out when I did get to a toilet. And I do try to go before I go out and before I leave the car park if I've driven out somewhere and sometimes it just doesn't happen.

Running makes you want to poo. No matter who you are. It isn’t a medical issue. 🙄🙄

Thank you. (As I suspected)

I've only done it when absolutely desperate and it's coming out anyway, there's no one around to see, there's no toilets for several miles and I'm on foot

End of story. How the hell has this gone on for eight pages ? (Maybe it's a big poo.) Oh that's right, it's Mumsnet.

@pictish jobby-dodging 🤣

and actually, I stand (slightly) corrected - it's only DHs who aren't allowed any kind of "endurance" hobbies, of COURSE the DWs can join the WI 🙄

Don't make the thread all sensible now @MissDe it's keeping me entertained while I'm poorly........w

Try living by an urban beach. People think shitting in the sea is ok as the tide will take it out. Yes it will but you are not the only one in the water and I would rather not have your turd float by as I swim.

Y'know like the right to walk your kids to school or have them play outdoors without them stepping in human faeces because "no, I can't possibly interrupt my run to find a toilet or heaven forbid pick up my own shit. My running is more important than anything else!"

So stepping in dog poo or fox poo or bird poo is ok ? Or do they not watch out for poo and try not to step in in no matter what.

Because OF COURSE your children are more important than what any one else is doing at any time at all.

“” I wear disposable incontinence undies and specialist running leggings that hold it all in and then clean myself up when I get home - most of my runner friends do the same.””

wow not sure what’s most disgusting, the above or shitting in the woods.

OP, your friend is disgusting leaving poo for animals to roll in

Who says she does?

OP posted here without knowing the full facts about how J handles her al fresco ablutions. That hasn't stopped dozens of posters titillating themselves with entirely fictitious inventions, purely in order to broadcast their virtuous horror at something not even the OP knows is true ...