You might be a runner if...

you pee on yourself during competition

you shave before every race, but not before visiting your guy friends

...you congratulate your teammate for throwing up after a race.

Bump on the barf. In my case, you congratulate yourself.

your friends all fell asleep during Chariots Of Fire, but you liked it so much you had to watch again and again

when you hear a song, you imagine how cool the music video would be if people were running in it

you can think of over 20 reasons

you have a shirt that says, "You Might be a Runner If..."on the front, and then a long list of reasons on the back

you enjoy watching track meets and marathons, and other running events on television

all of your dreams involve running

your goal is to run across the usa

your friends affectionately introduce you as "the psycho runner"you work in your dates around your running schedule

you would rather run than do most activities

you get tired walking for a couple minutes, but you can go for hours running

you have ever done mile repeats or a tempo run in a hurricane

your room is packed with nasty, ripped, worn out running shoes that have "sentimental value"

sadly....

you have dreamt about result sheets

you're name is Jason Brown and you went to New Trier High School

JasonDoesAsia wrote:

You think that a box of poptarts and a quart of milk is a complete meal!

You know where the cheapest place for PowerBars is in your city. (WAL MART!)

You look at Paul Tergat and Daniel Komen, both who look like famine victims, and you think "Damn! I wish that I could have a body like that!"

Jason

You might be a runner if...you write hate mail to idiot columnists like Phil Hersch of the Chicago Tribune and this new loser from Hammond, IN who claims that runners arent athletes.

you've ever had to stop yourself from 'snot-rocketing' while walking amidst a crowd of innocent passers-by...

you can remember all your rivals' PRs in every event but can't remember your mother's birthday.

you can say fartlek with a straight face.

if you've ever had someone actually ask you if you run across the freakin country.

you give up trying to explain that a cross country meet is not a track meet and vice versa(bad seplling)

...if you run on Christmas Day

...if you are ever bored while at an event and you start checking your resting heart rate.

...if you are in class or a meeting and think of "time remaining" until you get out in terms of "how far could I run in that given amount of time."

Somebody at work asks you what the world record is for the mile. You answer (correctly). They then ask if you've ever run one that fast (Answer: Nope, sorry, it was somebody else...)

....you have ever used either of your socks to wipe your own ass, after going number 2 in either a field or heavily wooded area.

IF you've ever written hate mail to a guy who claimed in an article that Ricky Williams was a better athlete than Lance Armstrong.

(wait, you don't need to be a runner, you just need to be alive.)

If you cut down on the food on Thanksgiving and Christmas because you know you have to run later and dont want a cramp.

You skip a social event so you won't be behind for your weekley mileage.

....you spend the entire english AP test thinking about league prelims later that day

....skip easter vacation to spend 2 days doing timing at Arcadia

....don't mind eating dirt, because you outkicked someone at the end of a cross race

....care more about getting new spikes, than getting a new car

...you've run enough years to eat dinner then 30 minutes later be able to go for a run and not think twice about it

...you know all the places to take a piss or dump on all your normal runs

...you are proud when you take a dump in the woods

...you run more miles in a day then the hours you work or sleep

...when you go home early one night your friends ask in a saracastic tone if you have to run 10 miles tomorrow and you reply with 15

middistance wrote:

you know that your socks can be used as disposable resources in emergency situations.

darn that was mine.

-your bladder shrinks to the size of a peanut and you need to piss every 2 minutes befoore a race.

-your family buy you nothing but running stuff for christmas.

You only pull into the gas station to get water.

harrier12 wrote:

....you spend the entire english AP test thinking about league prelims later that day

...you wrote any of your AP english test essays about running