You know you are a runner if...
I totally ripped this off from Dane...he's my hero and running 52 marathons this year (all under an insane time) for L'Arche-Mobile--an international federation of communities in which people with a mental handicap and those who help them can live, work, and share their lives together. Stop by his site, www.fiddy2.com, and show him some love.
You know you are a runner if...
* you spit
* you have been spit on, and not cared
* you run through goosepoop like it doesnt exist
* you have been spiked-you use frozen peas/vegetables to ice
* taping is heaven
* you know carbs are good
* you have a warm up mix
* you know the ammount of time to digest before you run
* you know what PR's are
* you get mad when people dont know what a 400 is, or any distance for that matter
* you own more running shoes than regular shoes
* you enjoy running in the rain
* you get excited when a new flavor of gatorade comes out
* theres no such thing as too much pasta
* you wear a black, plastic sports watch with your dress clothes.
* you can remember a time from a race 4 years ago, but you can't remember your friend's birthdays.
* you are not embarassed to show someone where your hamstring "really" hurts.
* you know your resting heart rate, maximum heart rate, and exactly what your heart rate is at all parts of your run.
* you wear your running shorts underneath your work clothes so that you can quickly get running after work.
* you love shoes...running shoes.
* you won't drive by any running store without a quick look inside.
* you know exactly how far a kilometer is.
* you have more old dirty shoes piled by the door than a farmer.
* you read each month's issue of Runner's World cover to cover within 24 hours.
* you not only know how you did in a race, but you know exactly how every other runner finished.
* you drive by a golf course and think what a nice place it would be to run.
* you know splits are something that not only cheerleaders care about.
* your friends know to never call you after 8:30 at night.
* you get up earlier to run on the weekends than you do for school/work.
* you think that the inventor of Powerbar should have his likeness engraved on Mount Rushmore.
* you have hundreds of safety pins scattered around your house.
* you have more T-shirts than a souvenir shop.
* you can't wait for your next birthday so you move into a new age group.
* you check out the running stores for the new styles.
* you know that cotton is not the best fabric for running!
* someone asks you how your run was, you go into a 10 minutes description of every factor of it.
* you could watch a whole marathon and not be bored.
* you think of distances in terms of mile repeats.
* you don't care what the temperature is, 0 and snow or 100 and 100% humidity
* you can convert miles to km and back in your head in a second
* people think you disappear into the woods
* you wear multicolored socks for no reason
* when someone asks you what you did today, you respond with a number
* you run 2 miles for practice and tell your coach that was a nice warm-up
* you've mastered the evil eye to give to all competitors before a big race
* you can eat almost anything and the pounds never show (and your non-running buddies hate you for this)
* you enjoy racing your shadow.
* your wardrobe consists of at least 1/2 race/school team t-shirts.
* your "nice" shoes are your new running shoes.
* You've considered calling your child speedy, prefontaine, bowerman, bullet, unna, olympia, etc. * You drink water as quickly as a fat child eats cake.
* you look dumbfounded when everyone asks you how long your marathon was. (26.2 miles... duh)
* instead of candy bars you keep energy bars in your desk.
* you don't blink an eye at $100 for running shoes, but you have to think about $100 for any other shoes.
* you save bib numbers in a scrap book
* you know to the hundreth of a mile how far it is around your neighborhood
* you have imaginary lines on the ground (start/finish)
* you dont even bother to use your car to get to nearby stores
* you look at other people's running shoes to see if they really run....you can tell
* any parking spot is never too far away....
* you know when all the latest running shoes are to come out-you spend way too much time shopping for socks
* you know every runner in you're community
* when you run a mile in school, you finish at least a lap before everyone else
* when you run a mile in school and you critisize the way other people run
* all you can talk about was you're run from the day before
* you think frisbee is the ultimate workout :)
I'm going to add a few to this list, too...
* you have a running blog and religiously read running blogs of your "friends" who are actually folks you've never met.
* you check the finish times for your running blog friends and cheer for them states away.
* you have no problem asking to bum a gu off a runner you've never met.
* you have the ability to pee while you run (more for the elite, but still).
* you don't mind squatting behind a bush to relieve yourself during a long run.
What would you add?
posted by Iron Jayhawk at 6:59 PM
18 Camper Comments:
That you have memorized the incline you need to set the dreadmill in order to replicate local, outdoor courses, for those days where the weather simply won't let you run.
you're constantly explaining to your friends why you have so many vaseline tubs scattered around your apartment!!!
you are totally bummed that it is a beautiful 30 degrees outside and you are injured so you can't go out and run in it.
You have an unhealthy obsession with finding the ultimate sports bra. (The Shock Absorber, by the way! It rules! Thank you, anti-bounce panel!)
That, as a female, you have mastered the art of peeing while standing. And that you have no qualms doing so in the middle of the desert half-way through your race.
You practice the fine art of grabbing water bottles and chugging them as you run
Well, the peeing while you run and squating behind a bush answer a few questions I had today on my post. Runners are weird; God bless them, I love 'em, but they are weird.
1.) You obsessively monitor the color of your pee.
2.) Your pet peeve is people calling races of every distance (even a 5K) a marathon (damn it that pisses me off!)
3.) You won't go to work when you are sick but you will still run.
4.) You actually know what a Garmin is and are constantly begging your husband for one.
5.) You know exactly how much your running shoes weigh to the nearest tenth of an ounce.
That's so funny! And so many of them are completely true for me! I think my coworkers are completely sick of me grossing them out with my nasty feet!
You get mad when people don't know what a chronometer is... You look at people's calves and try to tell if they run or not... You try to check the weight of a running shoe even when you're not shopping for shoes.
You hate answering the question, “how many miles is a marathon?”.
This might be more for the triathetes, but...
You watch a friend shove a bar of body glide down their pants and you still borrow it.
BTW, is that a TNT shirt? Please email me so I can add you to TNT Bloggers.
Okolo
tnt [at] okolo.org
Sorry, TNT Bloggers is at www.tntbloggers.org.
Okolo
You plan you vacations around marathons.
Or how about this: When traveling out of town for work, you go online to see if there are any races in the city you're visiting.
You actually own special detergent for your technical gear... and you wash them by hand!
you can change on the bus to/from a meet in under 2 minutes.
I like that list! Very cool, though I am not a runner, but i appreciated this one.This makes me know how it was to be a runner! :)
~ brooks running shoes ~
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