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1. You run everywhere 2. You were the fastest guy in your class 3. You always wear running shoes. 4. Your favorite event at the Olympics is track 5. People always say "you seem like a born runner". |
| BR |
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6. You beat everyone running "gassers" across the field or basketball court in gym class prior to competing in TF/XC. 7. People looking at you and asking, unprovoked, "are you a runner?" |
| Darwinian |
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8. You outrun every member of your middle school football team in a mile with full pads on after being on the team for two days. |
| lucy in the sky with diamonds |
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1. no, i drive a car a lot because i can 2. yes, this is important in being born a runner 3. no, just because you wear tennis shoes doesn't mean you are a "born tennis player" 4. yes, a born runner wouldn't favor any event over running 5. no, who just walks up to someone and says you seem like a born runner"? that would just be weird. |
| DoctorWatts |
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Wow, all the odd numbered ones could be used for a separate list! Signs you're a virgin. |
| merrr |
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9. Your mother tells stories of when you were 3 of her having to chase you around the house to eat. |
| umm drum |
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10. You came out of the womb making snide comments about joggers and accusing your older sister of having doped in order to be born before you. |
| Mush |
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Ha |
| original poster |
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11. You suck at real sports and try to be the best at exercise |
| Malamute |
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If you were a twin, if you ducked your torso across the cervix to get out ahead of your sibling. |
| Not an actual person |
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You are skinny as hell with no upper body strength |
| Barry Sotero |
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Your birth certificate is from Kenya |
| Ken Adian |
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12. you do yourself while running |
| an orphan |
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you are placed on the road at the age of 10 months old. |
| domitian |
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The first signs of the proto-runner are not found in the athletic domain. They are increasing awareness of dateless loser status and the co-evolution of clinical introversion during junior hs and hs era. This is associated with a switch to increasingly intense, solo exercise activity. The simplest and easiest of which is to run. Soon, the proto-runner discovers LR and realizes although he is ostracized at hs there's a whole tribe of LRBF pounding the forests and roads all around the world. Jim Ryun would have been one of the board's most prolific posters if the net were around then. The legendary regime of the notorious Coach Timmons would draw more critique than it did then. But. It is good that their displacement focus is running because otherwise it may focus externally on rage and perception of denied rights. The psychological tipping point between the LRBF in one direction and the Columbine pepetrators in another is never clear. |
| um, no |
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13. you have little or no self esteem, and for good reason 14. you have bird legs and no amount of squats will make them grow 15. you make fun of other slower runners with low self esteem to make yourself feel better about having bird legs 16. you don't have the motor coordination to play soccer |