The “Aperture” singer shared personal details and funny advice he's received during an appearance on comedian "Brittany Broski’s Royal Court"
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- Harry Styles shares that he was advised to “practice peeing on myself” before running a marathon
- Last year, the singer, 32, ran the Tokyo Marathon and Berlin Marathon
- He shared that in the end, he “didn’t need to pee” during either 26.2 mile race
Harry Styles says he was advised to “practice peeing on myself” before running a marathon, joking that he’d done it before, but “not while running.”
The "Aperture" singer, 32, answered rapid-fire questions during a Feb. 25 appearance on Brittany Broski’s Royal Court, a YouTube comedy show where guests answer random questions on a medieval set with the goal of being added to host Broski’s court.
“You run a lot of marathons,” Broski began, prompting Styles, who ran the Tokyo Marathon and the Berlin Marathon last year, to reply, “Two is not a lot.”
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“Have you ever peed on yourself?” she asked, referencing how runners may experience urinary incontinence. “Be honest.”
“You know what? I actually didn't need to pee really, [during] either of them,” Styles shared. “I had a lot of people tell me that I should — that I was going to pee on myself and that I should, like, practice peeing on myself."
"So then I got to like the end of the training and I thought, ‘I don't have any long runs left and I don't know that I can go run for like 10 minutes just to pee on myself.’ ”
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“So I actually never practiced peeing on myself,” he said, cheekily adding, “I've done it in the past but not while running … different context entirely.”
Styles ran the 26.2-mile Berlin Marathon in 2:59:13, marking an average pace of 6:50 per mile — his personal best, as he finished the Tokyo Marathon in 3:24:07.
During the interview, Styles also shared more personal details — specifically, that he’s switched up his bedtime route and started using an electric toothbrush. “I've just started washing my face. I've just got an electric toothbrush,” he said, quipping. “I used to be acoustic …I was acoustic for a long time.”
“I've just gone electric,” he said. “[I] feel like Bob Dylan.”
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And when he can't sleep, Styles revealed that he watches YouTube videos — specifically, "If I like can't sleep, sometimes I'll watch Mike Tyson's ten greatest knockouts … they're amazing." Then, he shared that the next recommended video is usually "old episodes of Supernanny."
"So then I watch the worst-ever behaved kid," he shared. "And then I'm like, 'Okay, I'm ready to go back to sleep.' "
On a serious note, Styles — whose upcoming album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, is his first in four years — shared "taking a break and having a couple years away from it, it was just really important for me to, like, enjoy myself and, like, like myself while not doing this job … I think without like taking proper time to do that, it's just really difficult, especially when the kind of reward system is so loud."
"It was just really important for me to recognize, like, I don't think this balance is necessarily the healthiest thing for me. So I think it was just kind of time for me to go, like pay some attention to other parts of my life."
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