More You Might Be....
You might be a runner if...
- hearing the soundtrack to "Rocky" gives you goose bumps.
- 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 school clothes so
that you can quickly get running after school.
- 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've seen Chariots of Fire at least 5 times.
- you read each month's issue of Runner's World cover to cover within
24 hours.
- you get excited when you hear that there is a new Gatorade flavor.
- 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 know that there is no such thing as too much pasta!
- you install hooks in your shower for wet running clothes.
- 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 can use endorphins in a sentence.
- you could watch a whole marathon and not be bored.
- you enjoy running in the rain.
- you think of distances in terms of mile repeats.
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