While I appreciate the intimacy I have with so many friends through Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, it’s no real revelation that anyone pees in the pool.

Competitive swimmers have been letting out the yellow cloud as long as I can remember. It was a given, a fact of our two to six hour a day aquatic life. Your hair would surely be chlorine-burnt, your skin permanently itchy, and you knew the hydrating fluids you sucked down would ultimately recirculate through the body of liquid in which you swam.

I have my own peeing stories and history. I rarely left the pool to pee. My first coach said, “True champions never stop training. They keep their heart-rates high and urinate while they’re swimming.”

I never mastered the ability to actually pee while in motion, pulling and kicking. I always had to cling to the wall and use the aid of a heated jet-stream.

I remember one swimmer, a girl back in boarding school (The Mercersburg Academy), who used to urinate on deck into a tiny drain right before racing. She said, “I just sit on the drain (which was in front of the starting blocks) and tee tee. That way I’m lighter, the lightest I can possibly be before I compete.”

“Right out in the open?” I asked her in disbelief.

“No one can see,” she added causally. “I’m sitting criss-cross applesauce directly above the drain’s metal grill when I tee tee.”

I believe it’s commonly held that competitive swimmers are a funny bunch, a truly weird tribe of water-logged people. I, for one, love how free we are about our bodies, even when it comes to peeing.

For the recreational version of peeing in the pool, this video pretty well explains things:

For the URBAN LEGEND about the urine-detecting chemical that creates a red dye when you pee in the pool, this video is comprehensive:

Source: goldmedalmel.com

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