...you've snuck into your school's training room to steal gatorade cups ?while the trainers were at football practice ? so you could make ice cups in your fridge at home
...you've soiled yourself before reaching the hotel lobby and then rode in a packed elevator to your room on the 10th floor
you have pissed in public more often then a dog
if you feel leaves are a great substitute for toliet paper
you get the urge to kill when you hear "run forest run"
the words ugali boaz and meb mean anything to you
.. If you had a cross country meet on 9/11/01, they canceled it, and you felt cheated.
.......when you can't sleep at night you go for a 4 miler
.......you skip 1st hour to get your daily morning run in
...if you've heard someone say "so, you run before you run, then after you run you run again?" when overhead talking about warmups and cool-downs.
you've rationalized getting your Sunday morning as a means of getting home from a nightclub, because you're afraid you won't wake up until afternoon.
Sunday morning run, that is.
1. your license plate says something related to running
2. you join the Marlboro cigarette smoker club, start picking up empty Marlboro cigarette packs on your easy runs, then send in the "Marlboro Miles" for cool free stuff from Marlboro while the smokers die of emphysema.
by the end of the year you have more shoes in your closet than most girls do in your hall.
-you can pass an elephant through your colon
-you think the economy would improve if only Pres.Bush ran more miles
-you think world leaders should race(at least 5k)to settle their disputes
-you wish Lance Armstrong would run a 10k
this might have been posted...i did not read every post before me...shame on me i know:
you might be a runner if the sound of making $250,000 a year for six years seems like a lot of money for turning pro and not competing all the way through college.
you pray for distance runners to get good in the US and then you slam the best shot we have had in a long time for being weird, dumb and cocky
These may already be on the list but....
The nurse checks your pulse at the doctors office and immediately begins CPR.
You can't sleep without a bottle of water by your bed.
If you only drank 8 glasses of water a day you would die.
You can check your pulse in bed at night just by listening to it.
You put in a couple of 60 mile weeks because you want to take it easy.
You say things like, "I only ran 10 today", or "I only ran once today."
You think soccer players are out of shape.
You say things like "long and hard" to your female friends and it is not a sexual inuendo.
You have heart rate competitions with your running buddies.
You think anyone slower than you is not a runner and anyone faster is just a freak.
You find track on television exciting.
You can get drunk at the bar for $2.50.
It is no longer possible to sprain your ankles.
The girls on your track team think the Hooters girls are overdressed.
You can't understand why people would golf on such a beautiful XC course.
You spend more time on letsrun than surfing porn.
48 degrees is the perfect temperature.
You have no problem peeing in public.
You think Once A Runner is the best novel ever. Well it is.
You can't imagine not running.
You set your alarm for 6 am on the weekend.
You hate runners world.
You'll run 18 miles on a Saturday but must find the perfect spot at the grocery store because you hate to walk.
You don't Gallowalk.
You can get drunk at the bar for $2.50.
Maybe if you started drinking right after a 20 miler. I think a better one would be...
You have as high of a tolerance for alcohol as your friends who outweigh you be 50 pounds.
you name your dog spike and your kid miles
... the "DONT WALK" sign means "RUN"
... you get sore from not running for 2 days in a row
... you ran barefoot but it wasnt a big deal, and now it is
... you are a kalenjin or gikuyu
... you know what eldoret is in real life, and if its your home ...
... you have an idol whom you have been to school more than he has
....mud on your new shoes isn't a problem
.... you plan your meals around your workouts
for the parents:
....you've paid someone to watch the kids so you don't miss a run.
this is going to sound very weird...
...you find yourself in the bathroom of a greyhound bus, on your way home from a marathon, trying to puncture the blood blister under your big toenail with a staple that you pulled out of a paper in your bag because the throbbing is driving you crazy and you don't have a pin or a needle handy
You are healthy as a rock and but are refused at a blood donour clinic because your pulse is lower than they deem acceptable.