We're having two discussions on Slowtwitch right now: proper hydration and supplementation to ensure good health while racing; and semi-public, semi-private urination during the bike or run leg. The irony is that if you want to make sure your body's water regulation remains sound, that water must go somewhere, and that somewhere is out your kidneys, into your bladder and then from there. It's likely that you'll at some point need to badly go during a race, especially a long race.

ST: This the case, do you expect that the head ref who called for this particular person's DQ might not have done so had this race taken place out 30 yards off the highway behind a rock on a lonely road outside of St. George?

Jimmy: Yes I do. I know that most referees I've spoken to will look the other way if an athlete is making an attempt to discretely relieve him- or herself, that is, if the athlete is seen walking behind a rock or into the woods.