...you do bad you get to play longer.
...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.
...you have no life besides running.
...your weekends are shot.
...you wake up with cotton mouth.
...you are as skinny as a twig and have a stupid knit cap for the head.
...you can sharpen an axe blade on your calves.
...the lunch ladies look good in the morning.
...you can maintain a 5:30 pace while throwing up.
...you think track is for wussies.
...you try to impress girls by saying you're a fast finisher.
...you consider school as just a break between runs.
...you always stretch while waiting in the lunch line.
...your room smells like Icy-Hot and New-Skin.
...you�re bankrolling your physical therapist's next vacation.
...your girlfriend can bench more than you.
�you don�t have a girlfriend
...you can count all your ribs.
...you own spandex in more than 1 color.
...track is the other "sport".
...you foam at the mouth every time 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.
...even your dress shoes have spikes.
...Runner's World provides more pin-ups than Playboy.
...you think spandex is a winter's passion statement.
...you never look behind you.
...you don't know what an "off-season" means.
...you have stress fractures.
...you find yourself saying, "it's not really a hill..."
...you have a special bond with a Honey Bucket.
...you hit targets with your snot rocket.
...your feet are comparable to rawhide.
...you're running and you don't know why.
...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 can't get the "All you can eat" at spaghetti restaurants
...you get arrested for running over 70 in a 60 MPH zone
...you get pulled over after practice, and can't walk straight because you're so tired
...you did a 30 minute warm up for the P.E. mile run
...you wore spikes on the P.E. mile run
...you ran sub 5:00 on 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 rabbit for the rabbit
...you have 3% or less body fat
...you laugh at sprinters while they run
...there�s nothing like intervals to start the week off fresh!!
...you talk to your coaches more than your parents
...you aspire to pain.
...Steve Prefontaine's Birthday is more important than yours
