When out running do any of you experience..

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a feeling that you need to poo, and when you come back you have diarrohea? It's like it jiggles about and mushes up - ewww! Tell me I'm not alone!

yes, its very common apparently.

Do you remember the tale of Paula Radcliffe in the olympics about 6 years ago? She had to stop on the side of the road and poop??

Ooh, a couple of times there's been quite a lot of blood too (which I've got a referral about), and I wondered if the poo was kind of scraping about the sides??

Have only recently started running (managed a couple of four minute runs amongst the walk a minute, run a minute session at the w/e) and have never experienced diarrhoea after run but did come back from run recently with the most awful constipation type pains...

Bosch, the reason I went to the docs was cos sometimes after running (not always) the pain I experience is akin to childbirth but in my rectal area.

not alone. very common. it's called runner's trots. the blood's not common though afaik. nor the pain. so worth getting checked out

do you have piles? that may explain the blood, but you really need to get it checked out.

Any type of exhertion will get the bowls moving - water helps to make the poo squigey

BelledeChoc - I think Paula Radcliffe urinated by the side of the road rather than crapped ?

this came up on another thread. and apparently PR pooed. I hadn;t realised at the time but tinterweb seems pretty sure.

Yes - I just checked, you are right. She pooped. What a skanky cow! Medal on the cards or not, there's a bit (pun coming....) below the belt!

Fartmeister - no disrespect to you ; given that you wait and do the business in the privacy of your own loo!

I've never experienced an urge to poo when running - but I think that's because I always have a very early morning - shortly after waking - 'constitutional' and go running afterwards

Try running on treadmill at gym then going on the vibrogym plates... that is WEIRD and you really have to use your, um, muscles in a clenching way IYKWIM ....!!!!!!

Poop!

paula radcliffe peed not pooed!

not convinced...i thought she blamed it on eating the wrong stuff.

hmmm thought she peed too, James Cordon made ref to it in his sport relief thing

This mentions Paula

Paula Radcliffe also pooed in her pants when she was running the marathon in Athens. Deliberately

I have had runners' trots on occasion, but glad you're getting the bleeding checked out.

That's right Wallace - she pooed in Athens and had to throw away her faecal covered white gloves (filthy hoo-er), and she peed in the London Marathon.

I threw up by the road side one when running - but that was completely involuntary and since I am in a the country, I did manage to hide behind a bush!

Yep runners trots. Very common. The bleeding is caused I think by irritation in the digestive tract caused by the jiggling about - I get it too, but if I stop running for any length of time eg when ill, it stops.

I also read the stuff in PR's autobio about Athens - was very graphic.

There was also a female winner of the London Marathon a few years ago whose shorts had - umm - go faster stripes .... can't remember her name.

You may not like this by the way, but avoiding alcohol and chocolate can help!

Yes. It's horrible. Either run near public loos or some deserted fields with nice thick hedges