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TIL Runner’s trots or Gingerbread Man is the sudden and explosive need to empty one’s bowels in the heat of a race. This occurs due to shunting of blood away from the intestines and toward the muscles. Runners also lose control of both their interior and exterior sphincter muscles at the anal canal

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