I saw this on another post & thought it was cute:
...your shoes have more miles on them than your car does.
...you have chafing in strange places.
...people say, "You run three miles...at once?"
...all your socks are either stained or torn.
...you run farther in a week than your car travels for races.
...the dogs have to hurry to keep up.
...you find yourself running to work just because.
...you can spit while running.
...you go to a golf course to run.
...your friends go on the elevator and you beat them on the stairs.
...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'd rather run to work than drive.
...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-perspirent vs. deodorant.
...you spend more on training clothes than street 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 have running withdrawl if you don't run everyday.
...you eat spaghetti three times a day.
...you wake up every morning in pain.
...gatorade is your drug of choice.
...you can see your ribs thru your shirt.
...you have to run around in the shower to get wet.
...you enjoy running hills.
...you start to crave Power Bars.
...your favorite food group is carbohydrates.
...people think it's a winter sport..
...your dessert is brussel sprouts.
...you foam at the mouth.
...you are always hungry.
...your running in your dreams.
...you have no life besides running.
...your weekends are shot.
...you wake up with cotton mouth.
...your are as skinny as a twig and have a stupid knit cap for the head.
...you can sharpen an axe blade on your calves.
...you always stretch while waiting in the a line.
...your room smells like Icy-Hot and New-Skin.
...you are bankrolling your physical therapist's next vacation.
...you can count all your ribs.
...you own spandex in more than 1 color.
...you foam at the mouth everytime you see a big hill.
..."Chariots of Fire" is actually entertaining to you.
...a 12 mile run is an easy day.
...pizza, pasta, pizza, & pasta are your four food groups.
...your watch is more expensive and complicated than your car.
...Steve Prefontaine's Birthday is more important than yours.
...you aspire to pain.
...you know as many kinds of pain as eskimos have words for snow.
...you think spandex is a winter's passion statement.
...you never look behind you in a race.
...you don't know what an "off-season" means.
...you have stress fractures.
...you find yourself saying, "it's not really a hill..."
...your feet are comparable to rawhide.
...you're running and you don't know why.
...you see a hill on a putting green.
...you drink more water than Free Willy
...you routinely race dogs down the street...and win.
...dogs follow you everywhere you go
...you'd rather run than watch T.V.
...watching the New York Marathon on T.V. made you get up and go for a run
...you can say "I like to run" in over five different languages
...you haven't had a pop in 6 months
...your calves are bigger than your biceps
...your cookie jar is filled with bagels
...there are more miles on your running shoes than the odometer of your car
...you're toe nails are fallen off
...you can pronounce those funny Kenyan names
...people always ask you what events you are running
...you can hallucinate and get high at the same time without taking anything
...you can say more names of your runs than names of your friends
...you always win in your sleep but never in a real race
...you traded in your Gremlin
...you wake up in the morning and find that you?re already running.
that's awesome! Thanks for sharing. :)
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