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YOU MIGHT BE AN XC RUNNER IF…
...your toenails are black.
...your shoes have more miles on them than your car does.
...you need a magnifying glass to see your name in the paper.
...you have chafing in strange places.
...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 run farther in a week than your bus travels for meets.
...the dogs have to hurry to keep up.
...you find yourself running between classes just because.
...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.
...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 that the distance that you ran.
...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.
...you debate the advantages of anti-perspirent vs. deoderant.
...the paint from the bathroom walls peels when you leave.
...you start the race in shorts and finish in a G-string.
...your spit strings from you 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 X-C meets because they have been or will be on the team.
...your chest is as flat as your back.
...you feel lost without your water-bottle.
...you have running withdrawl if you don't run everyday.
...you eat spaghetti three times a day.
...the mile in P.E. becomes your warm-up.
...you wake up every morning in pain.
...gatorade is your drug of choice.
...you give up homecoming to go to a Meet.
...your Saturdays for the next 4 years are ruined.
...you can see your ribs thru your shirt.
...you have to run around in the shower to get wet.
...you were asked to be an extra for Schindler's List II.
...you enjoy running hills.
...you start to crave Power Bars.
...your favorite food group is carbohydrates.
...your women's team has leg hair longer than the grass they ran on.
...you can strip and change in a bus seat in less than 2 minutes.
...you don't puke your first day of basketball practice.
...there are no flies by your gym locker.
...people think it's a winter sport.
...you have trouble benching the bar.
...when 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.
...your running in your dreams.
...you have no life besides running.
...your weekends are shot.
...you wake up with cotton mouth.
...your 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 cafeteria ladies look good in the morning.
...you can maintain a 5:30 pace uphill 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 are bankrolling your physical therapist's next vacation.
...your girlfriend can bench more than you.
...you can count all your ribs.
...you own spandex in more than 1 color.
...track is the other "sport".
...you foam at the mouth everytime 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 (YEAH SUZY HAMILTON!!!)
...Steve Prefontaine's Birthday is more important than yours.
...you aspire to pain.
...you know as many kinds of pain as eskimos have words for snow.
...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 hit targets with your snot rocket.
...your feet are comparable to rawhide.
...you're running and you don't know why.
...you see a hill on a putting green.
...your friends refer to you as "the masochist".
...your spit hits everything but the ground.
...you drink more water than Free Willy
...you can't get the "All you can eat" at spaghetti restaurants
...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 wore spikes 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 rabbit for the rabbit
...you have 3% or less body fat
...you laugh at sprinters while they run
...theres nothing like intervals to start the week off fresh!!
...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 X-C is
...you run the day after State
...off-season training starts a week after State
...you haven't had a pop 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 odeometer of your car
...you try to pick up a girl by telling her how fast your first mile is
...you're toe nails are fallen off
...a fatman 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 normal bodily function
...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 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 traded in your Gremlin
...you think Lisa Aguilera is hotter than Christina Aguilera.
...you wake up in the morning and find that you?re already running.
...the Ritz is your idol, and not a hotel in New York.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRACKIE WHEN…
you spend so much time hurdling that every time you go by a chair or a table or anything low enough to hurdle, you practice your technique…the high jump pit feels better than your queen bed …you don't mind that your car smells like running shoes, and forgetting that they live in the back seat you ask people not to move them when they sit back there for fear of forgetting which shoes match up with each other. …you can sleep anywhere and everywhere because you do it at track meets all the time …you walk out of the door and go to school and you forgot ALL of your books, but you still have those running shorts for practice …you can't turn right...you convert every distance you hear to meters …you know what biofreeze is. ...somebody asks you for the time, and when you look at your watch, it's still in stopwatch mode, with your last finish time on screen. ...you have your summer workouts planned in March …you're figuring out your splits for the 1600 during church ...you bring racing flats to the gym class one mile run. …you're the only one of your friends that does absolutely nothing on Friday nights because you have to run the next morning …skipping class to go run becomes a serious thought …ice becomes your best friend. …on your birthday you receive keys to new spikes...instead of to a new car! …you can recognize your friends from a mile away just by looking at their stride …you get first degree burns on ur leg from an ice pack... …you know the exact price for tiger bomb pain rub. ..you go to track meets you don't even have to run in …the only reason that you want to go to school is to go to practice ...someone tries to impress you with their 15% body fat and 75 beats per minute resting heart rate only to hear that you're under 4% and your heart cruises along at 45 beats per minute. …you feel guilty not packing your running shoes when you go on a trip …you are seriously allergic to every single kind of athletic tape, but still use it anyway …your license plate says something related to running …you threaten to hurt the whole football/lacrosse/soccer teams because their benches and equipment had been moved onto the track...your spit hits everything BUT the ground ...your desire to get to the finish first overrides all sense of self-preservation. …your friends think that you are speaking a different language ...when you can barely walk due to the severe amount of pain in your body! …you carry around shorts,flats and spikes in your car "just in case" …you know the name of every street within a 3 mile radius of your school. …the athletic trainer kicks out of the training room because he sees you everyday …you pass people in your car and picture yourself as your car and other cars as opposing runners in a race (you passing them) …you can't find your house keys, but know exactly where your spike keys are! …you talk about running so much that all of your friends who don't run know your PR …you can't do anything without moving around in circles. …you ask what time it is...and expect to hear how long the people on the track have been running. ...someone asks you for the time and you say your pr. …you have batons laying around the house …every conversation leads back to running …every conversation is about running ...you frequently use the word 'fartlek' without laughing …you tell people how many pairs of shoes you own and they start questioning your sexual orientation …nothing gets you more upset than when coach cancels practice for spring break. Then you have to sneak onto someone else's track to run hurdles. …you play another sport and the coach tries to punish the team by making them run, you're the only one who cheers. ...your leg tan is really bad …PR'd is your most commonly used verb...you're Saturdays are screwed for the next 4 years …you order BIOFREEZE from a catalog in the 1 gallon jugs...all you wear are running shirts to school ...you have figured out a ways to sleep comfortably on a bus even with a large gym bag by your side …you eat pasta 7 times a week …You go on a weekend trip and pack a large bag while your friends take small bags because you have to take all your running shoes with since you rotate shoes and will be doing a workout as well. …you don't feel right without working out for a day …you find yourself looking for new places to run or judging distances when driving in your car …You own copies of more than one movie about Steve Prefontaine…you start measuring your shoes life span in mile not time …you have bad dreams of running slow times the night before a meet …every object around you becomes your personal helper to stretch your muscles …one-tenth of a second means everything …your parents tell you you're going on vacation and you see it as a chance to run in new areas …you go to eat at a restaurant where the waitress keeps coming to fill up your water 3-4 times before anyone else on the table is down to half their glass …it's raining and you are the only team outside doing a practice, running a workout on the track …you search tirelessly for an AIM expression that has to do w/ running …Icy Hot is a part of your grocery list …people talk about you that you don't know …you have shin splints …you complain about the races/practice but you still do them …having someone massaging your butt in public is okay …you bring a blanket to sleep during track meets …you here a gun shoot off and automatically turn your head wondering what race just started …you have a countdown on your subprofile to when track starts next year …you know how many meters are in a mile …team meetings are held in the cold whirlpool room …every time you go to a park you evaluate how good of a xc course it would be
...your toenails are black.
...your shoes have more miles on them than your car does.
...you need a magnifying glass to see your name in the paper.
...you have chafing in strange places.
...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 run farther in a week than your bus travels for meets.
...the dogs have to hurry to keep up.
...you find yourself running between classes just because.
...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.
...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 that the distance that you ran.
...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.
...you debate the advantages of anti-perspirent vs. deoderant.
...the paint from the bathroom walls peels when you leave.
...you start the race in shorts and finish in a G-string.
...your spit strings from you 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 X-C meets because they have been or will be on the team.
...your chest is as flat as your back.
...you feel lost without your water-bottle.
...you have running withdrawl if you don't run everyday.
...you eat spaghetti three times a day.
...the mile in P.E. becomes your warm-up.
...you wake up every morning in pain.
...gatorade is your drug of choice.
...you give up homecoming to go to a Meet.
...your Saturdays for the next 4 years are ruined.
...you can see your ribs thru your shirt.
...you have to run around in the shower to get wet.
...you were asked to be an extra for Schindler's List II.
...you enjoy running hills.
...you start to crave Power Bars.
...your favorite food group is carbohydrates.
...your women's team has leg hair longer than the grass they ran on.
...you can strip and change in a bus seat in less than 2 minutes.
...you don't puke your first day of basketball practice.
...there are no flies by your gym locker.
...people think it's a winter sport.
...you have trouble benching the bar.
...when 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.
...your running in your dreams.
...you have no life besides running.
...your weekends are shot.
...you wake up with cotton mouth.
...your 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 cafeteria ladies look good in the morning.
...you can maintain a 5:30 pace uphill 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 are bankrolling your physical therapist's next vacation.
...your girlfriend can bench more than you.
...you can count all your ribs.
...you own spandex in more than 1 color.
...track is the other "sport".
...you foam at the mouth everytime 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 (YEAH SUZY HAMILTON!!!)
...Steve Prefontaine's Birthday is more important than yours.
...you aspire to pain.
...you know as many kinds of pain as eskimos have words for snow.
...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 hit targets with your snot rocket.
...your feet are comparable to rawhide.
...you're running and you don't know why.
...you see a hill on a putting green.
...your friends refer to you as "the masochist".
...your spit hits everything but the ground.
...you drink more water than Free Willy
...you can't get the "All you can eat" at spaghetti restaurants
...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 wore spikes 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 rabbit for the rabbit
...you have 3% or less body fat
...you laugh at sprinters while they run
...theres nothing like intervals to start the week off fresh!!
...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 X-C is
...you run the day after State
...off-season training starts a week after State
...you haven't had a pop 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 odeometer of your car
...you try to pick up a girl by telling her how fast your first mile is
...you're toe nails are fallen off
...a fatman 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 normal bodily function
...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 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 traded in your Gremlin
...you think Lisa Aguilera is hotter than Christina Aguilera.
...you wake up in the morning and find that you?re already running.
...the Ritz is your idol, and not a hotel in New York.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRACKIE WHEN…
you spend so much time hurdling that every time you go by a chair or a table or anything low enough to hurdle, you practice your technique…the high jump pit feels better than your queen bed …you don't mind that your car smells like running shoes, and forgetting that they live in the back seat you ask people not to move them when they sit back there for fear of forgetting which shoes match up with each other. …you can sleep anywhere and everywhere because you do it at track meets all the time …you walk out of the door and go to school and you forgot ALL of your books, but you still have those running shorts for practice …you can't turn right...you convert every distance you hear to meters …you know what biofreeze is. ...somebody asks you for the time, and when you look at your watch, it's still in stopwatch mode, with your last finish time on screen. ...you have your summer workouts planned in March …you're figuring out your splits for the 1600 during church ...you bring racing flats to the gym class one mile run. …you're the only one of your friends that does absolutely nothing on Friday nights because you have to run the next morning …skipping class to go run becomes a serious thought …ice becomes your best friend. …on your birthday you receive keys to new spikes...instead of to a new car! …you can recognize your friends from a mile away just by looking at their stride …you get first degree burns on ur leg from an ice pack... …you know the exact price for tiger bomb pain rub. ..you go to track meets you don't even have to run in …the only reason that you want to go to school is to go to practice ...someone tries to impress you with their 15% body fat and 75 beats per minute resting heart rate only to hear that you're under 4% and your heart cruises along at 45 beats per minute. …you feel guilty not packing your running shoes when you go on a trip …you are seriously allergic to every single kind of athletic tape, but still use it anyway …your license plate says something related to running …you threaten to hurt the whole football/lacrosse/soccer teams because their benches and equipment had been moved onto the track...your spit hits everything BUT the ground ...your desire to get to the finish first overrides all sense of self-preservation. …your friends think that you are speaking a different language ...when you can barely walk due to the severe amount of pain in your body! …you carry around shorts,flats and spikes in your car "just in case" …you know the name of every street within a 3 mile radius of your school. …the athletic trainer kicks out of the training room because he sees you everyday …you pass people in your car and picture yourself as your car and other cars as opposing runners in a race (you passing them) …you can't find your house keys, but know exactly where your spike keys are! …you talk about running so much that all of your friends who don't run know your PR …you can't do anything without moving around in circles. …you ask what time it is...and expect to hear how long the people on the track have been running. ...someone asks you for the time and you say your pr. …you have batons laying around the house …every conversation leads back to running …every conversation is about running ...you frequently use the word 'fartlek' without laughing …you tell people how many pairs of shoes you own and they start questioning your sexual orientation …nothing gets you more upset than when coach cancels practice for spring break. Then you have to sneak onto someone else's track to run hurdles. …you play another sport and the coach tries to punish the team by making them run, you're the only one who cheers. ...your leg tan is really bad …PR'd is your most commonly used verb...you're Saturdays are screwed for the next 4 years …you order BIOFREEZE from a catalog in the 1 gallon jugs...all you wear are running shirts to school ...you have figured out a ways to sleep comfortably on a bus even with a large gym bag by your side …you eat pasta 7 times a week …You go on a weekend trip and pack a large bag while your friends take small bags because you have to take all your running shoes with since you rotate shoes and will be doing a workout as well. …you don't feel right without working out for a day …you find yourself looking for new places to run or judging distances when driving in your car …You own copies of more than one movie about Steve Prefontaine…you start measuring your shoes life span in mile not time …you have bad dreams of running slow times the night before a meet …every object around you becomes your personal helper to stretch your muscles …one-tenth of a second means everything …your parents tell you you're going on vacation and you see it as a chance to run in new areas …you go to eat at a restaurant where the waitress keeps coming to fill up your water 3-4 times before anyone else on the table is down to half their glass …it's raining and you are the only team outside doing a practice, running a workout on the track …you search tirelessly for an AIM expression that has to do w/ running …Icy Hot is a part of your grocery list …people talk about you that you don't know …you have shin splints …you complain about the races/practice but you still do them …having someone massaging your butt in public is okay …you bring a blanket to sleep during track meets …you here a gun shoot off and automatically turn your head wondering what race just started …you have a countdown on your subprofile to when track starts next year …you know how many meters are in a mile …team meetings are held in the cold whirlpool room …every time you go to a park you evaluate how good of a xc course it would be