Jan 14, 2005 13:34
YOU MIGHT BE A CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER IF
...people say, "You run three miles...at once?"
...all your socks are either stained or torn.
...your underwear covers more than your uniform shorts.
...you find yourself running between classes just because.
...your friends go on the elevator and you beat them on the stairs.
...you finish the race looking like you wrestled a bear and you don't care.
...your temper is shorter than the distance that you ran.
...you can eat your weight in spaghetti.
...your spit strings from your chin and you don't even care.
...you've been to a golf course in every city but not to play golf.
...you feel lost without your water-bottle.
...the mile in P.E. becomes your warm-up.
...you wake up every morning in pain.
...Gatorade is your drug of choice.
...your Saturdays for the next 4 years are ruined.
...you can see your ribs through your shirt.
...your favorite food group is carbohydrates.
...you have trouble benching the bar.
...you are always hungry.
...you're running in your dreams.
...you always stretch while waiting in the lunch line.
...you can count all your ribs.
...track is the other "sport".
...you foam at the mouth every time you see a big hill.
...pizza, pasta, pizza, & pasta are your four food groups.
...you know as many kinds of pain as eskimos have words for snow.
...you have stress fractures.
...you find yourself saying, "it's not really a hill..."
...your feet are comparable to rawhide.
...you're running and you don't know why.
...you drink more water than Free Willy.
...you get pulled over after practice, and can't walk straight because you're so tired.
...you laugh at sprinters while they run.
...there's nothing like intervals to start the week off fresh!!
...you can say "I like to run"
...your calves are bigger than your biceps.
...you're proud that another team has quadrupled you're score.
...the seniors assist the freshman into the lake.. or ocean
...you refer to puke as a bodily function.
...you can hallucinate and get high at the same time without taking anything.
...you have 3% or less body fat.
...you start to crave Power Bars
...you can say more names of your runs than names of your friends.