"Just pee in the woods!"

When I was in high school I was on the Cross Country Team. For those of you who do not know what that is, well it is a 5k race that tricks runners into doing the impossible. The groups in charge like to make each race course more and more challenging! thanks guys we appreciate it... >_< These races consist of running through woods where wild animals live.. I've had a few close calls with some squirrels! There are always at least 2 mountains that we runners have to run up. Oh and did I mention the starts for these races. Haha well just picture a stampeed of about 75+ gizell all lined up horizontally who charge out when they hear a gun shot and then all begin pushing to get the front of the group. Oh its greattttt... *cough*. Meanwhile the runners are all stuck in the pack of beasts trying to stay with their teammates who are yelling for each other. Theres yelling, screaming, and pushing, what more could you ask for. XC! Gotta love it.

Anyhow, my story!..
It was another fall saturday morning and another xc meet. Lets just say that everything was going wrong that day... and my coach who is anything but grace underpressure was having a meltdown. We forgot the tent, some of the team forgot their spikes, no water, couldn't find the bathrooms.. the list goes on and on. Luckily one of my friends who forgot her spikes got an extra pair off of our coach so we threw on our shoes and went to the start. As we were waiting for the gun my friend (who was wearing our coach's shoes) was complaining about how bad she had to pee... there was no time to go and the bathrooms were MIA.The gun went off and about 1 mile into the race my teammate was really bothered by the fact that she had to pee

"Dude, I can't hold it anymore!"
"What?! Yes you can! Come on!"
"No, like I really can't, if I see something that looks like a bathroom, I'm going to drop out of the race."
"Haha what! No! Please don't leave me, just pee in the woods!"
"No girl that would take way too long...!"
"Well your not dropping out, we came too far already!"

More or less she kept pushing and tried to ignore her urges... but soon enough became enough. We enter the woods and I thought she was just gonna pop a squat and take a leak ... but no!.. that would take too long...

"Ok just go behind a tree or something!"
"No thats so embarrassing! and I don't want anyone to pass us.. "
"Ok.. well. umm..."
"OMG IM PEEING!"
(we are still running btw.)
"WHAT!"
"HAHAHA IM PEEING MY PANTS!"

^True hero right there. We finished the race laughing and both got medals.. it was so worth it ;). Me and the team were sitting around talking and laughing about the great pee adventure when our coach walked up to my teammate asking for the shoes back so she handed over the urine soaked shoes, not saying a word about what happened.

"Girls next time, just PEE IN THE WOODS!"

I remember looking over at my teammate and the look on her face was priceless. No one knows how our coach knew, he either heard us or saw us, or maybe he could smell the piss on the shoes... ew. We'll never know, and no of us had the balls to ask.

As for all future runners remember, taking a pee break could mess up everything. Including your spot in the race as well as your pacing. Go ahead, pee your pants.


Peace.


oh and ps. turtle just uprooted his plant...
Its floating at the top of the tank. We are in a fight.