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I drain my body of all solids, and many year ago taught myself to pee while riding and running without stopping. You need to learn this during training first in order to make it work in a race. You also need to learn how to wash your bike and run shoes to rid the urine.I could never get myself to pee on the bike and always had like a 90sec pee saved up by the time I started the run, which I spent staring at my watch in a portapotty.
This last race, I decided to handle business on the bike, and I was amazed at how much better it felt on the bike afterwards and how much better and faster I was on the run. I never really thought of myself as "holding it" before, but I probably was. PRd my 70.3 run by 3 minutes with 2x the elevation.
Regarding no solid food before a long race, did I read that correctly? If you're doing a full distance are you just doing protein shakes and smoothies the day before? Hadn't considered that.