Soiling one’s self in a race.

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rogerzilla

Squire
There was a trend for ingesting huge amounts of sodium bicarbonate before a TT to, in theory, buffer the lactic acid. It tended to result in a bad case of the squits shortly after the race - if you lasted that long.
 

honeybadger

Senior Member
Never been caught out with a number 2 during a race. However doing long distance TT’s and having to take on large amounts of fluids (depending on the temperature but can be up to 1.5ltr in a 100 and up to 5ltr in a 12hr) I invariably have to have a pee, especially at my age :blush: Old school TT’ers used to tell me to do it on the fly but no matter how many times I tried my mind wouldn’t allow it, it was just wrong to piss myself. Trouble was it was costing me large amounts of time. One national 12hr I worked out I was stopped hiding behind a hedge for a total of six minutes over the day, costing me a podium. Then one year I had a breakthrough, finally having a jimmy riddle on the fly coasting going downhill. Only issue was I took a load of beetroot juice on before the race and nearly fell off when I looked down and saw what I thought was blood gushing down my leg :eek:
 

Animo

Über Member
There was a trend for ingesting huge amounts of sodium bicarbonate before a TT to, in theory, buffer the lactic acid. It tended to result in a bad case of the squits shortly after the race - if you lasted that long.

Would have been ok for Tony Martin that time he put sandpaper on his saddle. Wouldn't even have needed to get the bibs down.
 
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Webbo2

Veteran
Never been caught out with a number 2 during a race. However doing long distance TT’s and having to take on large amounts of fluids (depending on the temperature but can be up to 1.5ltr in a 100 and up to 5ltr in a 12hr) I invariably have to have a pee, especially at my age :blush: Old school TT’ers used to tell me to do it on the fly but no matter how many times I tried my mind wouldn’t allow it, it was just wrong to piss myself. Trouble was it was costing me large amounts of time. One national 12hr I worked out I was stopped hiding behind a hedge for a total of six minutes over the day, costing me a podium. Then one year I had a breakthrough, finally having a jimmy riddle on the fly coasting going downhill. Only issue was I took a load of beetroot juice on before the race and nearly fell off when I looked down and saw what I thought was blood gushing down my leg :eek:

I once tried to pee myself whilst riding in a long distance triathlon, it just didn’t work I had stop and make all those rushing water noises.🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
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