- you can remember a time from a race 4 years ago, but you can't
remember your friend's birthdays.
-Your heart rate is below 50 and you are not dying.
-You know how many grams of carbs there are in a banana.
-You can name a person from Namibia, Djibouti and Zimbabwe.
-you are embarrassed to wear sandals because of your hideous sock tan.
- you are not embarrassed to show someone where your hamstring "really" hurts.
-you have hundreds of safety pins scattered around your house
-you enjoy running in the rain
-you double knot all your shoes out of habit
-you have a watch tan that never goes away
-you feel naked without your stop-watch on
-when pasta is the only food you'll eat two nights before a race
-when you try to convince people to run a 5k because it's "only" 3 miles
-when your friends think they need to practice more before they can run with you
-You shower about 12 times a week
-Your tan line is just above your ankles
-your toenails are black.
-your shoes have more miles on them than your car does.
-people say, "You run three miles...at once?"
-all your socks are either stained or torn.
-you can spit while running.
-you go to a golf course to run.
-you finish the race looking like you wrestled a bear and you don't care.
-your temper is shorter that the distance that you ran.
-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.
-you debate the advantages of anti-perspirant vs. deodorant.
-you spend more on training clothes than school clothes.
-your Christmas list includes more than one pair of running shoes.
-your chest is as flat as your back.
-you feel lost without your water-bottle.
-you can see your ribs through your shirt.
-you enjoy running hills.
-you see a skinny person on the street and immediately look at their shoes.
-you meet an old teammate and can't remember their name but remember
their mile time.
-your favorite food group is carbohydrates.
-you are always hungry.
-your weekends are shot.
-you can sharpen an axe blade on your calves.
-you can count all your ribs.
-you own spandex in more than 1 color.
-your running tights are baggy
-"Chariots of Fire" is actually entertaining to you.
-your watch is more expensive and complicated than your car.
-Runner's World provides more pin-ups than Playboy
-you know as many kinds of pain as Eskimos have words for snow.
-you don't know what an "off-season" means.
-you have stress fractures.
-you find yourself saying, "it's not really a hill..."
-while everyone is sleeping you are up running, and while everyone is
awake you are sleeping
-you have 3% or less body fat
-there's nothing like intervals to start the week off fresh!!
-more than half the people you know don't know what X-C is
-you can't go a day without some little brat saying run forest run
-you wear skimpier clothes than Madonna
-you always win in your sleep but never in a real race
-a 12 mile run is an easy day.
(With thanks to Runners World)