www.10kswimmer.com/.../urination-in-open-water.html discusses the answers to these questions:
1. Have you ever felt the need to urinate while swimming in the open water?
2. If so, how often? Every time, frequently, occasionally or rarely?
3. Have you relieved yourself while swimming in the open water?
4. Is it difficult or easy for you to relieve yourself in the open water?
5. How exactly do you relieve yourself?
6. Have you ever NOT relieved yourself even though you felt a need? If so, why?
7. After your swim or race, do you feel the need to relieve yourself?
I was reading some famous swimmer's book about ow swimming. The chapter on swimming in COLD water suggested that you could urinate in the water as you entered before the swim and that would "warm" the water up.
Those people must have alot more uring than I do!? :blush:
Somewhere buried in the threads is the sordid tale of what happened to me during the MIMS race WRT this topic. Your readers might enjoy it - God knows, I didn't.
-LBJ
1) Yes
2) At least 50% of the time.
3) Yes
4) Easy
5) I just do it while I keep swimming
6) If I have to go, I go (but I at least have a little courtesy if we're all milling around at the race start & defer until we're spread out a little more)
7) Depends on how hydrated I am
Note: I take particular satisfaction in relieving myself for the moron who keeps slapping my feet while drafting off me throughout the entire swim.
Why does it have to be open water swimming?! :D I haven't gotten out of the pool in years and years!!:agree:
As female medical doctor friend and former Stanford swimmer says "it's only uric acid"
Uric acid (or urate) is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen with the formula C5H4N4O3.
:agree:
