...your shoes have more miles on them than
your car does.
...you need a magnifying glass to see your name in the paper.
...people say, "You run three miles...at once?"
...your underwear covers more than your uniform shorts.
...you run farther in a week than your bus travels for meets.
...the dogs have to hurry to keep up.
...your mom tells you to run to the store because it takes too long
to drive.
...the most enjoyable time you've had all month is a day off from practice.
...your coach won't give you a ride home.
...the first day of practice you run 5 miles but your coach says you
only ran 2.
...you can spit while running.
...you go to a golf course to run.
...you finish the race looking like you wrestled a bear and you don't
care.
...you'd rather run to school 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.
...your spit strings from your chin and you don't even care.
...a meal involves more than 3 servings!
...if you schedule dates around meets.
...you spend more on training clothes than school clothes.
...you wear those same training clothes to school regularly.
...your Christmas list includes more than one pair of running shoes.
...you've been to a golf course in every city but not to play golf.
...your entire family goes to cross-country meets because they have
been or will be on the team.
...you have running withdrawal if you don't run everyday.
...you eat spaghetti three times a day.
...the mile in P.E. becomes your warm-up.
...your Saturdays for the next 4 years are ruined.
...you have to run around in the shower to get wet.
...you run to the state meet.
...you enjoy running hills.
...you start to crave Power Bars.
...your favorite food group is carbohydrates.
...you call bus seat number 11 your second home.
...there are no flies by your gym locker.
...people think it's a winter sport.
...you find yourself in the middle of a football player's joke.
...your dessert is brussel sprouts.
...you foam at the mouth.
...you are always hungry.
...you're running in your dreams.
...your weekends are shot.
...you wake up with cotton mouth.
...you're are as skinny as a twig and have a stupid knit cap for the
head.
...you can maintain a 5:30 pace while throwing up.
...you consider school as just a break between runs.
...your room smells like Icy-Hot and New-Skin.
...you own spandex in more than 1 color.
...track is the other "sport".
...a 12 mile run is an easy day.
...pizza, pasta, pizza, & pasta are your four food groups.
...even your dress shoes have spikes.
...Steve Prefontaine's Birthday is more important than yours.
...you aspire to pain.
...you never look behind you.
...you don't know what an "off-season" means.
...you see a hill on a putting green.
...your friends refer to you as "the masochist".
...your spit hits everything but the ground.
...the song "Bad Moon on the rise" sounds like "Bathroom on the Right."
...you drink more water than Free Willy.
...you get pulled over after practice, and can't walk straight because
you're so tired.
...you ran sub 5 on the P.E. mile run.
...you did a 30 minute warm up for the P.E. mile run.
...you did all of the above for the P.E. mile run.
...you routinely race dogs down the street...and win.
...dogs follow you everywhere you go.
...you have 3% or less body fat.
...you talk to your coaches more than your parents.
...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.
...more than half the people you know don't know what cross-country
is.
...you run the day after State.
...off-season training starts a week after State.
...your cookie jar is filled with bagels.
...there are more miles on your running shoes than the odometer of your
car.
...you can't go a day without some little brat saying "Run, Forrest,
run."
...some little kid wants to know why you're running in your underwear.
...you're proud that another team has quadrupled your score.
...you wear skimpier clothes than Madonna.
...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.
