You know youre a runner when


...your shoes have more miles on them than your car does


...you schedule dates around races


...you find yourself saying, "it's not really a hill..."


...Ibuprofen is your recreational drug of choice


... you dont care when you hug a sweaty girl/boy


......you know where your heart rate monitor is but have to hunt for your house keys


...while everyone is sleeping you are up running, and while everyone is
awake you are sleeping


.....you wear a black, plastic sports watch with your dress clothes.


...you own spandex in more than 1 color.


...Your heart rate is below 50 and you are not dying.


...you see a skinny person on the street and immediately look at their shoes.


...you get hit by a car and you don't bother to get the license plate of the person who hit you because you still have 6 miles left to go


...you say things like "long and hard" and it is not a sexual innuendo


...you are used to the sound of a gun


...you wear sandals despite having the ugliest feet in the world, along with several missing toe nails


...you get upset and impatient when results from the race you ran aren't posted online by the time you get home


...you have chafing in strange places


...you spend more on training clothes than school clothes


...you do anything to try to heal an injury except go to a doctor or athletic trainer because you know they will just tell you to "Stop running."

....Your osteopath sends you Christmas cards.


...you have hundreds of safety pins scattered around your house


...you carry a waterbottle everwhere


...you double knot all your shoes out of habit


...you pack a separate bag for your running clothes


...pasta is the only food you'll eat two nights before a race


...you try to convince people to run a 5k because it's "only" 3 miles


... your friends think they need to practice more before they can run with you


...every time you see a runner when you're driving you feel like you too should be running, even if you ran 15 miles earlier in the day


...you feel lost without your water-bottle


...you have running withdrawal if you don't run everyday


...you consider work as just a break between runs


...you can count all your ribs