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You know you're an ultrarunner, when:
1. Your feet look better without toenails.
2. Your idea of a fun date is a 30-mile training run.
3. You're tempted to look for a bush when there's a long line
for the public restroom.
4. You don't think twice about eating food you've picked up off
the floor.
5. When you wake up without the alarm at 4AM, pop out of bed and
think "lets hit the trails".
6. You know the location of every 7-11, public restroom, and
water fountain within a 25-mile radius of your house.
7. You run marathons for speed work.
8. You visit a national park with your family and notice a
thirty-mile trail connecting where you are with the place your
family wants to visit next, which is a 100-mile drive away, and
you think "Hmmmm".
9. Someone asks you how long your training run is going to be
and you answer "seven or eight ... hours".
10. People at work think you're in a whole lot better shape than
you think you are.
11. You actually are in a whole lot better shape than you think
you are.
12. Your weekend runs are limited by how much time you have, not
by how far you can run.
13. You always have at least one black toenail.
14. Any time a plain old runner talks about her aches and pains,
you can sympathize because you've already had that at least
once.
15. When you start considering your next vacation location on
the merits of its ultras only.
16. Peeing in the toilet seems unnatural.
17. When the start of a marathon feels like a 5K and you're
wondering "Why is everyone in such a rush? Where the ##@@**!! is
the fire?"
18. You sign up for a 10K and you are the only one around who is
eyeing the bushes THAT way.
19. You know you're an ultrarunner when the races you enter end
in a different area code. -and pass through several different
Zip codes enroute.
20. You ask advice of hundreds of people on a list, looking for
answers you have already determined to be correct, taking hold
of only those, and running with 'em.
21. You are told *not* to run another marathon during the next
few months (because that would be bad for your health), and you
really follow that advice - by immediately sending off the entry
form for your next 50/100 miler.
22. The only time major household projects get done is in a
taper or race recovery.
23. You think a 100-mile race is easier than a 50 miler because
you don't have to go out as fast.
24. You know your an ultrarunner when you actually sit down and
read all of the postings about, "You know your an ultrarunner
when..." and can laugh and relate to all of the comments.
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