OK, this may be too personal for this forum… but when I started with marathons several years ago, I found myself having the urge to “go” (I’m trying to keep this clean) in the middle or end of my long runs. I lost a few pair of gloves and started planning my long runs closer to civilization to make pit stops. But as my workouts increased with tri training, I started making an “effort” to empty my bowels before each workout. Sometimes, even though I knew better, it was too forced. Now, after about 8 years of training and racing tri’s, it is a major problem that will not go away (as I sit here uncomfortably typing this).
So let’s have it. Any good remedies or suggestions?
I thought 'roids were just part of getting old. I’ve had mine so long I’ve named them (seems logical, no? I talk to them every morning). I used to talk to my 'nads, but at my age they’ve stopped responding…
Also, you may want to be checked out for Celiac disease (wheat allergy). Some people’s intenstinal walls are damanged by the introduction of wheat. Wheat, barley, oats destroy the villi on the walls (the villi are hairlike particles in the intestive which slow digestion), and the whole digestive process is sped way up when the villi are destroyed, any sort of jarring motion further advances things. This disease can strike at any time.
I had some roids the doctor removed with a procedure:
A plastic tube, tapered on one end, but open (a hole). He rolls tiny rubber bands up onto the tube and sticks it up there. I’m lying on my stomach with this thing penetrating a place that only a small percentage (I think) of the population has experienced and (I imagine) only a few enjoy. Anyway, when he locates a roid, the tube is placed over it and he pushes a rubber band down the tube until it snaps, and I mean that literally, off the end and around the base of the roid. It’s like a jolt of electricity and I actually levitated for a moment. With the blood supply cut off, the roid shrivels away and falls off.