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Here’s a reason to show up for a Saturday SRC run: Oh, the conversation that you’d otherwise miss.
When I arrived at the run on Saturday, 12/13, immediately after the publication of the Zen Yanni Newsletter 12/6, Quietman Tom had words for me (ShawmontRunningClub.com): How long did it take for you to decide to publish that Rumination? He was referring to the one I’d drafted about The Sneaky Pee that Teddio gleefully(?!) published (iCandybyWangC.com). (Granted, there’s never been one that he [Teddio] has ever actually rejected, but he does have first right of refusal, given that he publishes the email version of the newsletter before I turn it around and publish on Facebook and ShawmontRunningClub.com. This time he was prompt in giving me his thumbs up via eply, hence my assumption that his approval was “gleeful.” Anyhoo… [Nod to Zen Yanni @ ShawmontRunningClub.com].)
QT was right in guessing that I might have dithered about writing and publishing The Sneaky Pee, but I was so pleased with the idea of it I had to do it somewhere, somewhen. The newsletter turned out to accommodate the ‘where’ and that issue the ‘when’. Wouldn’t you know that the question opened the door to QT’s own experience with TSP. In the same way that runner Ryan Sandes (um) caught Dean Karnazes (uh) exercising his sneaky pee technique, QT (um) caught an SRC runner (um, and who shall remain unnamed) exercising his own technique in the corral of a past Boston Marathon they did together. It seems that the runner publicly squatted then did some discrete adjusting of his running short before a stream appeared on the pavement directly below him which then began trailing downhill. Talk about sneaky! I argued in my previous Rumination that Karnazes’ technique required the privacy of a non-public course. This SRC runner did him one better, though he wasn’t moving at the time. What impresses me about this particular technique (like my own suggested one) is that male and female alike can wield it. I’m all about equal opportunity.
One assumption across these 2 Ruminations is that the wielder has mastered the ability to successfully relax their urethral muscles in public. Another is that they’ve mastered the ability not to care what anyone else thinks. What’s one more thing to condition for future races?
Thanks, Quietman Tom, for the next degree of enlightenment. I still defend my incontinence-garment technique as the best of all worlds if for no other reason than that you don’t even have to care what anyone else thinks. Go back to The Sneaky Pee Rumination for all the, er, expressive details (iCandybyWangC.com).
–CtCloser (Calvinthe) “Negative Split or Positive Splat” #dothedue
FINE PRINT ¶Text by Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. ¶Cross-published: Facebook Shawmont Running Club (ZY Weekly Newsletter 12/13/25), Shawmont Running Club website, Ruminations by CtCloser. ¶This website posting: Rumination with added caption and enumeration.
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