I just tend to apologise to folk if they’re not runners and I stop to chat with my kit on, amazingly I don’t reckon that I smelt the same when I raced bikes, the wind must blow the scent off, I have followed the occasional polecat in a peloton but not too often, I did once have the delight of being head down in a line out into the wind, we were proper hugging the kerb when I thought it had started to rain, but no it was the fella in front, peeing through his shorts without moving out of the line, lovely