...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 X-C is
...you run the day after State
...off-season training starts a week after State
...you haven't had a soda 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 try to pick up a girl by telling her how fast your first mile is
...your toe nails have fallen off
...a fat man with a gun says "Alright gentlemen, take �em off."
...you can't go a day without some little brat saying "run forest run!"
...some little kid wants to know why you're running in your underwear
...you can pronounce those funny Kenyan names
...you're proud that another team has quadrupled you're score
...the seniors assist the freshman into the lake
...you wear skimpier clothes than Madonna
...you refer to puke as a bodily function
...people always ask you what events you are running
�you are walking in a crowd you have the tendency to speed up and pass people
...you wake up every morning in pain, and you love it
...you can see your ribs through your shirt.
...you get excited when you see a hill coming.
...you consider school a break between runs.
...you own spandex in more than one color.
...you know what ATP stands for (adenosine triphosphate)
...you know that 9 out of 10 road world records are held by Kenyans
...you top the speed limit with your fartleks
�you don�t laugh when you hear the word fartlek.
...you can say �water is life� in over 5 different languages
...your off-season starts a week after states
...you punish yourself for not running a sub 5 minute mile
...you have more races t-shirts than socks
...you�d rather take the stairs while visiting the Empire State Building.
...If these made sense to you.
...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 spend more time thinking about the scoring system than you do about scoring with the opposite sex
...you always win in your sleep but never in a real race
�you are walking in a crowd you have the tendency to speed up and pass people
