What do marathon runners do when they have to pee?
 

I'm not thinking about the usual marathons. I'm thinking about the 100-mile marathons that take like 19 hours to complete (if you're fast). I know that they sweat out a great deal of fluid during the run, but surely they've hydrated themselves very well beforehand, and they drink a whole lot of fluids during the race too. So what the hell do they do? Can they really hold it in for 19 or more hours? Or do you think a lot of runners just let it go during the race?

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I live by the six mile mark in the NYC marathon, and there is a station of porto-potties set up and a vacant lot nearby is always full of peeing runners. So I guess they just stop and pee. I imagine the guys who actually have a chance of winning don't stop. They are sweating so much they can probably just pee in their pants and no one would notice.

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They just let it go.

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Just be sure to not eat asparagus the night before.

-Diplomat

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Just be sure to not eat asparagus the night before.

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Actually maybe the smell would be so bad that the other runners would pass out or at the very least slow down.

craig

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On a (somewhat) related note, the winner of some 100 meter dash I was watching told the camera that he always 'ran on a full tank'. It helped him acheive top speed apparently.

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Do you remember Uta Pippet(sp?) a few years ago at the end of the boston marathon. She had blood(assume she started period during the race), piss and [censored] all over her legs.

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They take a quick "nature break" like in the Tour de France. There will always be someone willing to just go without stopping but I don't think it matters if they are elite or not.

Stupid is as stupid does.

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Just go man.

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I went to the Athens one and they didnt even have portopotties, people just went in the woods, men and women. My friend always has to crap when he runs for awhile so when he ran it he tore the bottom off a sock so he could pull it up around his calf. When the time came to crap after about 10 miles, he just ran slightly off the road and went, then he took off the piece of sock and wiped himself. Marathons are crazy, people jsut don't care about anything but running so they even throw off their clothes and leave them on the side of the road for good many times [they always start when its cold].