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?
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A big part of why I stopped at the 9 mile mark of the Tampa Bay Swim a few years back was because I needed to relieve myself and couldn't do it while swimming or floating or treading water.
Oh, and I didn't have to pee.
It would have been difficult to practice that maneuver in the local pool!
:confused: I would have certainly tried! I've seen Ironman guys spot right on the side of the road on the run to do #2.
A big part of why I stopped at the 9 mile mark of the Tampa Bay Swim a few years back was because I needed to relieve myself and couldn't do it while swimming or floating or treading water.
Oh, and I didn't have to pee.
It would have been difficult to practice that maneuver in the local pool!
:confused: I would have certainly tried! I've seen Ironman guys spot right on the side of the road on the run to do #2.
