how to drink water from a cup while running

Yes, if it's a paper cup. Hold your hand around the top rim of the cup and make a fist to crush it.
This creates a smaller opening in the gap between the forefinger and thumb which you can drink from
without splashing all over yourself. You might cause half of it to spill out while crushing, but
you'll be holding it out at your side during that action anyway and what you lose isn't important.
You'll be able to take smaller controlled sips and eventually get more in you.

If it's a plastic cup, forget it, it won't crush, it will break.
--
Jack Berkery, Latham, NY

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pardon my weird question, but for i have trouble drinking from a paper cup
while running.

i have raced a few 10Ks and everytime i try to drink from one of those

cups

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filled with water, i spill all over myself. the spilling is not the
problem, it's just that i want some water in my body.

sure, you say, you dont really need any water for a 10K, but im training
for a marathon, and i could really need some fluids during a long period

of

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running.

are there any 'techniques' to obtaining as much H2O from those darn cups
while still keeping your pace? and are there 'etiquettes' for disposing

the

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cups? it seems that everybody just throws em on the ground.

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pardon my weird question, but for i have trouble drinking from a paper cup while running.

Use your mouth stupidass!

Jack Berkery said:

Yes, if it's a paper cup. Hold your hand around the top rim of the cup and make a fist

So you old fart, where have you been and what ya been doing???

--
Doug Freese "Caveat Lector" [email hidden]

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Yes, if it's a paper cup. Hold your hand around the top rim of the cup and make a fist to crush
it. This creates a smaller opening in the gap between the forefinger and thumb which you can drink
from without splashing all over yourself.

OMG! WHAT A GENIUS! How did you ever think of such a thing? Just think of the humanity you've saved,
all those poor thirsty joggers dropping like flies, until... this.

I haven't bothered with rec.running in a long time because of the high noise to data ratio. I just
tuned in again out of curiosity and I saw one of those common FAQ questions pop up, so I responded
out of reflex. I think I wrote that same answer into the very first rec.running FAQ in the late 80s.
What goes around comes around.

I have been continuously subscribed to DRS and CVRT since their inception however. Those being
moderated groups, would not allow the dimwits that infest this group so constantly to stay
subscribed for even a day.

I've had a pretty bad year in 03. Hurt my back weight lifting in June training for the shot put. I
finally threw it out in major fashion in a T&F meet in August and was sidelined for the entire fall.
I missed the Schenectady Stockade-athon 15Km for the first time since 1991. I've run that race over
20 times and hate to miss it. The only reason I missed running it in 91 was open heart surgery, so
that should provide a measure of the magnitude of this back sprain.

All is well now as the year comes to a close and I may be able to make it to the New Years Day race
in Albany, but my total mileage is the lowest since 1978, so it will have to be the 3 miler not the
half-marathon.
--
Jack Berkery, Latham, NY
once known as "The Common Sense Coach"

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Jack Berkery said:

Yes, if it's a paper cup. Hold your hand around the top rim of the cup

and

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make a fist

So you old fart, where have you been and what ya been doing???

--
Doug Freese
"Caveat Lector"
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