Hypothetically Speaking: If you had to take a crap while running a 3 mile radius would you conserve your energy and walk or get to going and run to the nearest restroom?

I will have adult diapers handy just in case.

My body doesn’t work that way. If I am traveling, or in your case running, any attempt at using a toilet soon will be fruitless.

I would quit the race… and go to the nearest washroom.

Depending on urgency… I would look for a grove of trees and drop trou.

I’ve never had an emergency shit situation (seriously) and I hate running, but I’d probably get my ass to a toilet ASAP.

It would depend on urgency. As a rule, I don’t run anymore due to stress incontinence. If you ever debating whether to give birth to a 10½ lb baby, add that to the “con” column.

My first rule of jogging: Never leave the house without a wad of T.P.. Because when you really have to go, you have to go. So when I start to feel the urge to poop come on I always try to move as fast as I can to get where I need to go. I’m lucky as I have an 8 mile jogging loop where I live that has several wooded places in which to take an impromptu whiz or dump. Sometimes the urge to relieve myself is so powerful and the pain of holding it in so great that I just can’t make it to one of my potty stops or make it home. During those times I’ve pooped behind my neighbor’s rose bushes a couple of times, behind sheds/fences and in between houses.

It’s my first time saying this, but I vote bush.

Carry on running, mind over matter makes it more or less a non issue.

@gondwanalon Just out of curiosity, do you take poo bags with you so that you can bag your poo and dispose of it or do you just leave it? In a woodland area it probably wouldn’t matter too much but I can’t imagine your neighbours were to happy to find a human turd behind their bushes!!!

I dig cat-holes.