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I have been running marathons for just under three years now and I have been having the same issue. I have never had to go to the potty in a marathon (knock on wood) but I have had the same issue during training. I find that it comes and goes usually I find that I eventually get regulated and will go just when I awake usually just around 5:00 Am and so it does not affect my run. However, recently I will go out before but the moment I start running I begin to pass gas and then I need to stop. During my long runs of 20+, I sometimes have to go twice. When I run twice a day I find that I just keep wanting to go. Luckily, I can most times keep it for runs shorter than 11 miles. I think it has to do with your metabolism speeding up.

I keep thinking it was from drinking beers, then I though it was from using milk a few times when I did not have soy milk, then I though it was my cereal (I tried honey nut cereal recently). I am just not sure. I will let you know if I find what works for me.

For years, I would make a yogurt and fruit smoothie as part of my breakfast every morning and recently I just stop. No good reason just stop. I am thinking that might have a little to do with the fact that I am not as regulated as I use to be.

P.S. Do follow what Achilles told you I must second what he said I just wanted to rant a little because I was having the same problem.