…your coach won’t give you a ride home.
…you combine phrases like “10 mile run” and “Easy Run” in the same breath.
…you can eat your weight in spaghetti.
…your highest heels are your training shoes.
…a meal involves more than 3 servings!
…you spend more on training clothes than work clothes.
…your Christmas list includes more than one pair of running shoes.
…you enjoy running hills.
…you start to crave Power Bars, cliff bars, cliff blocks, sharkies, or some other on the run nutrition replacement.
…your favorite food group is carbohydrates.
…you try to impress girls by saying you’re a fast finisher.
…you consider school as just a break between runs.
…you are always stretching while waiting in any line.
…your room smells like Icy-Hot and A-535.
…you are bankrolling your Chiropractor/Massager Therapist and/or physical therapist’s next vacation.
…you own spandex in more than 1 color and/or length.
…you foam at the mouth every time you see a big hill.
…your watch is more expensive and complicated than your car.
…you know as many kinds of pain as Inuits have words for snow.
…you don’t know what an “off-season” means.
…you find yourself saying, “it’s not really a hill…”
…your feet are comparable to rawhide.
…your friends refer to you as “the masochist”.
…you drink more water than Free Willy
…you can’t get the “All you can eat” at spaghetti restaurants
…theres nothing like intervals to start the week off fresh!!
…you talk to your coaches more than your parents
…watching the New York Marathon on T.V. made you get up and go for a run
…your cookie jar is filled with bagels
…there are more miles on your running shoes than the odometer of your car
…you can’t go a day without some little brat saying run forest run
…people always ask you what events you are running
...you move to a new neighbourhood and after 3 months you know the streets better than your neighbour of 3 years.
...you've ever relieved yourself in a heavily wooded area. Hell, it doesn't even have to be heavily just somewhere in the outdoors.
...Ibuprofen is your recreational drug of choice.
....every road you drive on you think what a great hill workout this would be.
...you actually use the trip odometer on your car for something besides seeing what kind of gas mileage your car is getting.
...you make sure you have a pair of shorts and running shoes in your carry-on on all trips.
... you dont care when you hug a sweaty girl
...you have never heard "you run 21k, I can't even drive that far"
...you scare the sh** out of people when you pass them because they couldn't hear you coming
...it's raining and you say "what a great day for a run"
...you look forward to being surrounded by 10,000 other sweaty bodies.
...you lay out both a polarfleece top and a mesh singlet the night before a race because you just never know what the starting temperature will be.
...you buy Power Bars/gels by the case.
...your running shoes don't seem to last quite as long as they used to.
...you can say Fartlek without giggling
...when people hear you say "I'm going for a run" they know you won't be back for at least two hours.
...hydration has become a way of life.
...there are more blue cold compress bags in your freezer than ice cubes.
...you wish Bulk Barn would start selling ibuprofen.
...you almost wish that a pickpocket would grab your wallet so that you could chase him down.
...50% of your wardrobe is made of CoolMax and the other 50% is made of GoreTex.
...you have at least two drawers stuffed with race tee-shirts.
...you have a "special" shoe-tree in the basement.
...the nurse says you heart rate is 55 but you feel compelled to explain it is because of the hard 15k you did this morning
...you eat 4000 Calories a day and still lose weight
...you have woken up sore for longer than most eighty-year-olds
...a car honk makes your middle finger rise into the air by reflex
...when running behind cute girls, the first thing you notice is how much they pronate and what kind of shoes they are wearing.
...your license plate (or plate holder) says something related to running
...you say things like "long and hard" to your female friends and it is not a sexual inuendo.
...you think Once A Runner is the best novel ever. Well it is.
... the "DONT WALK" sign means "RUN"
... you get sore from NOT running for 2 days in a row
...you've driven 8 hours, one way, just for a race.
...co-workers think you're strange because you eat non-stop all day but go run on your lunch break.
Most of my blogs to date have related to either training or racing, but over the last few months I've collected a few of these from friends and the Internet and figured I would share them with you all before returning to regular blogging. I hope you get a chuckle out of them...if you don't, feel free to send me yours, or add comments to the FB post...if you do...please consider a donation to my Team in Training fundraiser - http:\\www.tinyurl.com/Going-Goofy
