Filed under: Advice, Health, Fitness, Fit Family Guy
Dear Port-o-potty #0075:
Thank you for having toilet paper. Thank you not being disgusting. Thank you for being there when I really needed you.
Now that’s what I call a Dear John letter.
Seriously, if you’re eating right now, stop. This article could get ugly.
I often like to put my fitness advice into context, which is another way of saying I enjoy sharing my personal tales of exercise woe. On Tuesday evenings I take my kids to a 6:00pm karate class and this involves an early dinner. Because I always run while they’re in class I’ve learned the hard way not too each too much prior to heading out. Usually I eat half my dinner before the run, and the other half after.
But this one time not too long ago I forgot. See, I barbecued this salmon just perfectly and served it with a curry sauce. I couldn’t help myself. I scarfed the whole thing only 40 minutes before I was supposed to run. I looked at the clean plate and said, “Oh, crap.” Let me tell you how prophetic those two words turned out to be.
I dropped the kids off at their class and started running. I’ve had the occasional running bowel misadventure before, but about three kilometers into my route is a public washroom, and while I’ve had some discomfort running those last few hundred metres I’ve never felt serious desperation. You know, that kind of desperation that has you thinking about finding a bush to squat behind.
Find out what happened and how to prevent the same thing from happening to you after the jump.
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