Local Runner’s Urine Color Not on Any Chart He’s Ever Seen
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A local runner is anxious about the color of his pee, Dumb Runner has learned, describing it as “not even close” to any shade he’s ever seen on a urine color chart.
Harold Arlen, 33, said he made the unsettling discovery last night, hours after finishing a long, hot trail run, eating artificially colored cupcakes, taking three electrolyte supplements, and drinking a smoothie containing beet juice and blueberries.
“It was weird,” Arlen said. “I looked down into the toilet as I, you know, did my thing, and I actually gasped out loud.”
Arlen described the stream he saw as “a funky, milky chartreuse, alternating with a sort of mauve, but also with an iridescent ice-blue sheen, sparkling like a diamond.”
“Also, it was fizzy,” he said. “And it smelled like campfire smoke.”
Health professionals often use “What Color Is Your Urine?” charts like this one, from the Cleveland Clinic, as a rough guide to proper hydration. Typically the choices range from transparent (very hydrated) to pale or straw-colored yellow (hydrated) to brown (severely dehydrated), with gradations in between.
Arlen said he’s been resting and drinking plain water, hoping for the best.
“I’m trying not to freak out,” he said. “Hopefully the next time I pee, things will be back to normal.”
“Assuming there is a next time.”
