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Author Topic: You might be a XC runner if... (funny)  (Read 7016 times)
James Leblow
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« on: June 16, 2008, 04:51:04 pm »

I found this on the internet and found it really funny being a XC runner and all so I just wanted to share it with you guys
You Might Be a 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.
...your team nickname is "Run for Fun."
...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.
...your mom tells you to run to the store because it takes too long to drive.
...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 than 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.
...a meal involves more than 3 servings!
...if you schedule dates around meets.
...you spend more on training clothes than school/work clothes.
...you wear those same training clothes to school/work regularly.
...you take more pride in making signs for the car to go to state than in your homework.
...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 cross-country 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 withdrawal 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 can see your ribs through your shirt.
...you have to run around in the shower to get wet.
...you run to the state meet.
...you enjoy running hills.
...you start to crave Power Bars.
...your favorite food group is carbohydrates.
...you call bus seat number 17 your second home.
...you can strip and change in a bus seat in less than 2 minutes.
...people think it's a winter sport.
...you have trouble benching the bar.
...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.
...you're running in your dreams.
...you have no life besides running.
...you wake up with cotton mouth.
...you're are as skinny as a twig and have a stupid knit cap for the head.
...you can sharpen an axe blade on your calves.
...you can maintain a 5:30 pace while throwing up.
...you think track is for wussies.
...you try to impress girls by saying you're a fast finisher.
...you consider school/work as just a break between runs.
...you always stretch while waiting in the lunch line.
...your room smells like Icy-Hot and New-Skin.
...your girlfriend/wife 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 every time 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.
...there is actually a reason to be excited about going to Northfield(site of the state meet).
...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 like going to Northfield for the weekend.
...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 have a special bond with a Honey Bucket.
...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 spit hits everything but the ground.
...the song "Bad Moon on the rise" sounds like "Bathroom on the Right."
...you drink more water than Free Willy.
...you can't get the "All you can eat" at spaghetti restaurants.
...you get arrested for running over 70 in a 60 MPH zone.
...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.
...there's 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 cross-country 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 odometer of your car.
...you try to pick up a girl by telling her how fast your first mile is.
...you're toe nails are falling off.
...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 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 always win in your sleep but never in a real race.
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« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2008, 05:06:34 pm »

That's too funny. Soo true it's sad.
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Steve Morrin
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« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2008, 01:47:14 pm »

I've got one.
You might be an XC runner if:
   -you've ever considered running for a date
   -a stick isn't a piece of wood
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« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2008, 06:13:15 pm »

haha, i have been on a running date once. 18 miler down blacksmith fork canyon in logan. i will tell you that is the best way to get to know A LOT about your date...and see them sweat and spit and blow snot rockets and everything else. this is the perfect way to really see the true side of a person...not just someone trying to impress you with their car and a fancy dinner. best date ever.
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Steve Morrin
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« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2008, 09:11:03 pm »

haha, i have been on a running date once. 18 miler down blacksmith fork canyon in logan. i will tell you that is the best way to get to know A LOT about your date...and see them sweat and spit and blow snot rockets and everything else. this is the perfect way to really see the true side of a person...not just someone trying to impress you with their car and a fancy dinner. best date ever.
I don't know how many people would survive if I took them on an 18 mile running date. :-)
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« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2008, 09:55:38 pm »

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I don't know how many people would survive if I took them on an 18 mile running date. :-)

But if she did survive, you would know she really liked you and is a hardcore runner  Wink
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Logan Fielding
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« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2008, 10:40:32 pm »

You might be a XC runner if you can use the word "fartlek" in a sentence while talking with a random person and not laugh while saying it!
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« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2008, 07:42:14 am »

You might be an XC runner if...

-you judge the quality of your run by how dirty you are after.
-stepping onto a track for speedwork feels like stepping onto an alien planet
-you've ever had to warmup on the bus, because you are 45 minutes late to a meet, and the gun fires when you get there.
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Ken Carlson
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« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2008, 04:42:21 pm »

You might be a cross country runner if...
You realize that our sport is "punishment" in everyother sport, but that only makes you more proud to be a runner.
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« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2008, 10:21:37 pm »

You might be a distance runner if you've ever tied your car keys to your shoe...
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« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2008, 12:43:36 pm »

You might be a cross country runner if...
     -you consider track to be off season training
     -every time you go to a park you evaluate how good of a course it'd be
     -you've walked away from a conversation because someone asked if you "jogged"
     -you consider school a break between runs
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« Reply #11 on: July 17, 2008, 11:05:11 am »

LOL@ 'you have trouble benching the bar'...

How about ... you purchase chapstick year round
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« Reply #12 on: July 17, 2008, 06:32:53 pm »

you might be an XC runner if you purchase energy bars year round.
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