Posted by mr wiz on December 09, 1998 at 15:53
In Reply to: How do female racing cyclists do it? posted by gbuu on December 09, 1998 at 14:33
Several years ago, a nationally televised major marathon, Boston, or one of the big ones, the woman who finished first had totally crapped herself, very obviously. She was wearing short yellow shorts and they were noticably soaked and browned all over. The comentators made polite mention of it "things like that happen sometimes". They kept showing replays of it over and over, because she crossed the finish line on her hands and knees, very dramatic. But the poor girl had crapped and peed herself thru her little yellow shorts for the entire world to see.
I've heard that for really long races, the athletes just go in their pants. Also, tho, the body goes into a kind of a numbbed state, shuts down and probably you don't have to pee.
Just thought of something, the hit movie Everest. I was wondering how they peed while in their gear. No way they're going to unzip in mega degrees below zero on top of the mountain. And the women climbers would have to take off their entire snow suits. No way. They'd climb for several hours. If they peed their snow suits you'd think it'd make them pretty cold.
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