460 items que definen a un corredor
460 cosas que definen a un corredor, cosas que uno piensa o el resto piensa de uno.
Para reirse un poco, fundamentalmente aquellos que saben de que se trata 
1. you roll your eyes when people say, “You run three miles…at once?”
2. you get irritated when more than half the people you know don’t know the difference between cross country and track.
3. you come up with weird answers to questions like “why do you run so much?”
4. you run farther in a week than your bus travels for meets.
5. the most enjoyable time you’ve had all month is a day off from practice.
6. all your socks are either stained or torn.
7. you can spit while running.
8. you finish the race looking like you wrestled a bear and you don’t care.
9. if you schedule dates around meets.
10. you spend more on training clothes than school clothes.
11. you take more pride in making signs for the car to go to state than in your homework.
12. your chest is as flat as your back.
13. you have running withdrawal if you don’t run everyday.
14. you wake up every morning in pain.
15. Gatorade is your drug of choice.
16. you would give up homecoming to go to the State Meet.
17. your Saturdays for the past 4 years were ruined.
18. you enjoy running hills.
19. your favorite food group is carbohydrates.
20. you are always hungry.
21. your room smells like Icy-Hot.
22. track is the other “sport”.
23. you think sprinting is for wussies.
24. you don’t know what an “off-season” means.
25. you have shin splints.
26. you find yourself saying, “it’s not really a hill…”
27. your feet are comparable to rawhide.
28. you wore spikes on the P.E. mile run.
29. there’s nothing like intervals to start the week off fresh!!
30. watching the New York Marathon on T.V. made you get up and go for a run.
31. you can say “I like to run” in four languages.
32. your calves are bigger than your biceps.
33. you’re toe nails are falling off.
34. a fat man with a gun says “Alright ladies take ‘em off” to you regularly
35. you’re proud that another team has quadrupled you’re score.
36. you wear skimpier clothes than Madonna.
37. You have a strong desire to save used popsicle sticks
38. You run through puddles instead of around them.
39. You know at least 3 different ways to tie a shoelace.
40. You can blow nose with your index finger. (Snot rocket scientist)
41. You know exactly what a difference .14 miles can make
42. Water is everywhere
43. Your team is like family
44. you have more inside jokes than a stand up comedian does.
45. you have almost or have gotten hit by a car.
46. you can add up miles and meters in your head, any other math you need a calculator.
47. You go through cases of water/gatorade in a week
48. You insist on running without a shirt when kids with three times your body fat content want you to put one on.
49. You know what sweat taste like
50. You’ve become a professional at popping blisters
51. You have some cool looking tan lines
52. You and everone on your team have some corny ritual before a race
53. <—How many miles u put in a week
54. You know the location and state of decomposition of all roadkill in a 5 mile
radius of your school.
55. You or someone on your team put icy hot on their testicles.
56. You were asked to be an extra for Schindler’s List
57. you have where someone lives based on a running route
58. you measure distance in time
59. you tell how old your shoes are by how many miles are on them
60. LSD is not a narcotic
61. you can run 6 miles while singing the entire way
62. The phrase “moisture-wicking material” is a regular part of your vocabulary, because…
63. You have suffered through one too many cases of “runner’s nipple.”
64. You’ve been able to squirt blood by pushing on your toenails.
65. You know which stores within several miles of your house/school have drinking fountains and bathrooms.
66. You’ve been ever so thankful to find a disgusting, stinking, hasn’t-been-emptied-in-months porta-john at just the right time.
67. You HAVEN’T been able to find the above, and still made it home anyway. And promptly threw out those particular running clothes…
68. You’ve learned to refer to the above as “suffering a significant gastro-intestinal event while running.”
69. You need to pee every 15 minutes because…
70. You drink more water in a day than most people do in a week or more.
71. You can recite all the electrolytes in your body without even thinking.
72. When a family member is looking for shoes and ask which ones you think are best you ask them if they pronate or not.
73. In PE the other kids will occasionally chant “Who likes short shorts, (insert name) likes short shorts”
74. youve found yourself jumping into random ponds, sprinklers, and kiddy pools on more than one occasion.
75. You PR by a over a minute and still aren’t satisfied with your time.
76. You set extraordinary goals that real people wouldn’t be able to meet.
77. You meet them about two weeks before you planned on it.
78. Your nervous as hell before a race.
79. You tripped or fell on your ass during the run.
80. Your always trying to beat the rival school that you hate.
81. Your racing flats smelled like shit after running through a lake.
82. You hate it when your school doesnt get a trophy.
83. You have been elbowed once or twice and elbowed them the fuck back the european way…lol
84. The first day of practice you run 5 miles but your coach says you only ran 2.
85. You talk to your coaches more than your parents.
86. You aspire to pain.
87. You don’t laugh everytime you hear the word “fartlek”.
88. Your girlfriend can bench-press more than you.
89. Gatorade is your drug of choice.
90. Your chest is as flat as your back.
91. Your spit hits everything but the ground.
92. You have to run around the shower to get wet.
93. Off-season training starts the day after State.
94. you autimatically block out the words “Run” and “Forrest.”
95. You fear the “Sympathy Clap”
96. You take the mile in gym class easy, and you still beat everyone by a lot
97. The only balls you use in cross country is during the final kick of the race
98. You hear the word “track” on the freeway, and you change lanes without thinking.
99. You spend more on training clothes than school clothes.
100. You feel naked without your water-bottle.
101. Your arm is completely tan except for a band in the shape of a watch around your wrist.
102. Your Saturdays for the next 4 years are ruined.
103. Class time in school is not spent taking notes…it’s a perfect time to figure out what mile splits you need to run next meet.
104. Runner’s World and “FastWomen.com” provide more pin-ups than Playboy.
105. You’re insulted when someone mentions how healthy you look.
106. People have noticed your heartbeat through your shirt.
107. Your heartbeat has awakened someone sharing the bed (last night).
108. You know which book that happened in.
109. You know that “All you can eat” is a challenge and a threat to your masculinity.
110. You’ve walked away from a conversation because someone asked if you “jogged.”
111. You went to donate blood, but they sent you away because your pulse was below the minimum.
112. You find flat-chested 96 pound girls attractive.
113. People actually ask where your water bottle is when you forget it.
114. You have no idea of that guy’s name, but you know his 5K, 1600, and 3200m PRs.
115. You have Power Bar cravings.
116. You’ve ever hit someone for saying “It’s just one second.”
117.If you havent streched after practice a charlie horse wakes you from your sleep
118. More people have honked at u drivin by then people honkin at weddin parades.
119. Every time you go to a park you evaluate how good of a xc course it would be.
120. You would rather run uphill than down.
121. you’ve got down almost every street in your town becasue u ran them so many times.
122.you hate when you try to get someone to join XC they say they cant because its hard.(because u remember your frist day of practice!)
123. You love the sport ultimate frissbee.
124. You hate when people say track and XC are the same thing
125. You can identify your team members by just looking at the waist down
126. You have never gone to a home football game because it was on the night of a pasta dinner
127. You have avoided eating taco bell because coach says your doing speed work
128. You categorize songs on your ipod for different races example: “5k mix”
129. You can eat your weight in pasta….in one sitting.
130. You can identify your team mates from their breathing alone. (Steffon Penke)
131. You can tell team naked running stories.. O_o (Mellissa Franzese)
132. You have run 3 miles, without stopping, while being stung by bees (Peter Franz)
133. You come home and your friends ask if you’ve taken your weekly mud bath. (Briana Celano)
134. You get lost during the competition…. (Christine Sprehe)
135. You’re good at hurdling real estate signs, dogs, and puddles (Ed Smilde)
136. You ditched your prom date to go for a run in the woods behind the building. If she asked where you went your reply was “I needed some air.” (Dan Harlow)
137. Your toughest competition and best friend is the same person. (Brian WIlcox)
138. You size up every hill, track, path, lane, road, field, and anything else that may get marked on a map for its training potential. (Iain Rutherford)
139. Every time you see a beautiful place you think “this would be an awesome place to run” and then you go get your shoes. (Joey Gogus)
140. You cant help but laugh at the sprinters when they run. (Brian WIlcox)
141. whenever you hear sexyback playing you immediately think of running. (Rachel Cawkwell)
142. Your calfs turned into cows <— its a cow joke, get it? (Antonio Fuentes)
143. it’s always a beautiful day for running. (Greg “The Wolf” Govan)
144. your sports bra collection is worth at least half a grand. (Michelle Corkum)
145. you find yourself looking at people you don’t know in public because you’re almost positive they’re a runner too. (Michelle Corkum)
146. you’ve ever started a conversation with someone just because they have a t-shirt on from a race (Michelle Corkum)
147. You’ve eaten more bagels than you care to think about. (Chris Jordan)
148. You have scars on your shins from running spike mishaps. (Chris Jordan)
149. You have a burning hatred for the volunteers who push you through the line after you cross the finish. (Chris Jordan)
150. You can tell someone runs or ran cross country having only known them for a matter of minutes. (Chris Jordan)
151. You can set up a tent in 2 minutes flat. (Chris Jordan)
152. You made an itunes playlist of the songs your team sings when they run so you can listen to it when you’re running alone. (Chris Jordan)
153. You live off the term “anaerobic threshold.” (Chris Jordan)
154. In every race you strive to get to the point of “just about to vomit,” and if you’re don’t get there you’re mad at yourself after the race is over. (Chris Jordan)
155. The owner of the local italian restaurant in your town knows your team members by name and gives you discounts. (Chris Jordan)
156. Every possible running route around your school has a name that only your team understands. (Chris Jordan)
157. You own, and know every word to “Without Limits.” (Chris Jordan)
158. You’ve forgotten what carbonated beverages taste like. (Chris Jordan)
159. You took the time to read all of these. (Alex Steiner)
160. Reading this list made you go out for a run.
if your coach wont give you a ride home
161. you consider school just a break between runs. (Antonio Fuentes)
162. you have 3% or less body fat. (Antonio Fuentes)
163. you dream about running.(Antonio Fuentes)
164. you never stop to tie your shoes in a race. (Antonio Fuentes)
165. you take a pre-race dump. (Antonio Fuentes)
166. if you think one second is too much time. (Antonio Fuentes)
167. you enjoy running during storms (rain, thunder, snow, ice…)-Veronica Modlin
168. practice isn’t canceled because of one of the above, and the soccer and football teams make fun of you.
169. You came back after your run to check the list.
170. you own way to many pairs of asics (Laura Grenier)
171. empty water bottles can be found all over your room (Laura Grenier)
172. you get really excited when your coach says “Alright run an easy six”. (Hollie Benson)
173. you’ve run behind a teammate and thought it was raining because their sweat was flying onto you! (Rachel Oncken)
174. walking home from school is too long (Dennis McDermott)
175. you changed into your shorts and shoes at the subway becuase the bus was takiing to long (Dennis McDermott)
176. you change outside, in frontt of twenty other guys doing the same and no one makes a gay joke (Dennis McDermott)
177. a friend asks you to sprint with him at the end you say “thats it?” (Dennis McDermott)
178. you eat more then her but your still thinner then your girlfriend (Dennis McDermott)
179. chicken legs is a compliment, to some not all. (Dennis McDermott)
180. treadmills are the devil (Dennis McDermott)
181. you go running for an hour in shorts and a tshirt outside when the rest of your campus wont leave their beds/dorms because of the snowy weather (Lacy Taylor)
182. you’ve found yourself practicing in the rain while every other high school sports team got to go inside…and you were happy about it. (Becky Vartuli)
183. you own a “if cross country was easy they’d call it football” shirt. (Becky Vartuli)
184. you boycott friday night high school football games because football players say crap about how pointless xc is… even when your xc team is better than your football team. (Alex Steiner)
185. You respect everyone, but fear no one (Erik Hauswald)
186. your teachers tell you they saw you in a reflective vest that morning. (Rachel Oncken)
187. You wake up in a cold sweat because you had a dream where you missed your first mile split by 10 seconds in a conference race. (Bryan Jennings)
188. If other people call you crazy, insane, or stupid. (Hollie Benson)
189. no matter how much you struggle during a run, afterwards you still say, “That felt good” (Hollie Benson)
190. you’ve listened to coach pap’s speach about hydration….lemonade and apple juice so many times you could preach it and you have that handout hahaha (Annie Clark)
191. you consider the person walking on the opposite side of the street competition and try to reach the stoplight at the street corner before they do. (Ck Ellwood)
192. You have quotes about running in your AIM profile.
193.You know you’re addicted when you have a breakdown of your season in your AIM profile. (Matt Rose)
194.You ask where the water cooler is before the soda cooler. (Matt Rose)
195.You get the Wii in hopes of there being a running video game, where you have to run in real life. (Matt Rose)
196.You feel tired as hell after a meet, but you sitll have enough energy to have an intense ultimate frisbee game. (Matt Rose)
197.You can’t comprehend the point of a 50 yard dash. (Matt Rose)
198.You find something related to xc in any sport you watch. (Matt Rose)
199. you enjoy getting lost in the woods alone (Kayleigh Shrader)
200. you’ve become accustomed to the taste of mud (Kayleigh Shrader)
201. if you consider mile repeats speed work (Sam Spiegel)
202. in less than a week, you have more K’s on your shoes than your mother has on her ring finger… (Melissa Franzese)
203. if you go for 10 mile runs to relax… (Graham Shorr)
204. your biggest pet peeves is waiting for the “walk” arrow at intersections while on a steady state run ( Liz Koch)
205. The walk to class bores you into running there (and NOT because you’re late). (Jeff Geo-fry Lyman)
206.You get into arguments with your teammates which length spikes are best to wear. (Jeff Geo-fry Lyman)
207. Compression shorts are the greatest idea ever. (Jeff Geo-fry Lyman)
208. You accidentally eat in the two hour period but go for a run anyways. (Jeff Geo-fry Lyman)
209.If you “twisted” you ankle and run the rest of the race only to find out in the end that your “twisted” ankle is a stress fracture (Melissa Lynn Storti)
210. You know you’re a XC runner if you have your first asthma attack and then right after you run your cool down with no problem (Melissa Lynn Storti)
211. If your feet look like they have gone through WWII (Melissa Lynn Storti)
212. If the guys bathroom has a line at an invitational (Melissa Lynn Storti)
213. If you’ve used tape w/o under wrap because you forgot it in your locker which is now 2 hours away from you race (Melissa Lynn Storti)
214. If you can run around you neighborhood/school/local park blindfolded and not get lost (Melissa Lynn Storti)
215. If you fall at the finish line get back up and puke on a volunteer that is helping and look forward to it. (Melissa Lynn Storti)
216. you get mad at people when they say they are sore from walking around 6 flags. (Melissa Lynn Storti)
217. when people stare at you at a red light like your a freak because your using your legs to get around (Melissa Lynn Storti)
218. you leave your house at 4.00am to go for a run. (Melissa Lynn Storti)
219. peeing subconsciously during/after a race is an accomplishment. (Jacob Phillips)
220. You can go three months straight while just wearing t-shirts from random road races and other invitationals. (Andy Twietmeyer)
221. If you were chased and attacked by a squirrel. (Aaron Ziltener)
222. The amount of shoes you have is greater than all the shoes a girl has (Alex Steiner)
223. If your xmas break sucks in that you have to run alone (Pete Grant)
224. You know you run xc if you can recognize girls you’ve raced against by their scrunchies and get a certain amount of joy because you’re passing “blue sparkly scrunchie” and “red, white, and blue scrunchie” yet again. (Becky Vartuli)
225. you count how many people you pass (Tai C)
226. your worst time is only a second slower than your best time. (Adam Dibacco)
227. you use the word “carboloading” while youre eating huge amounts of pasta. (
Keagan Jaymes Richmond)
228. Your IM profile says “My sport is your sport’s punishment” as do those of 3 or more of your friends. (Anne Marie Jasinski)
229.Your not afraid to lean forward going down a hill if it means gaining ground or time. (Anne Marie Jasinski)
230.You run more for a warmup then the cheerleaders run for a workout. (Anne Marie Jasinski)
231.You know that the meet won’t be cancelled just because its raining… or snowing. This isn’t soccer. (Anne Marie Jasinski)
232.You get angry when people run XC but not Winter or Spring track or the other way around, and you actively try to “convert” them. (Anne Marie Jasinski)
233.You put safety pins in your shoelaces so that they don’t come untied. (Anne Marie Jasinski)
234.You’ve mastered the jewlery check: “Earrings, necklace, braclets, belly ring.” (Anne Marie Jasinski)
235.There’s at least one guy on your team with hair as long as the girls’. (Anne Marie Jasinski)
236.when people complain about having to get up early you tell them you will be up half an hour earlier for a morning run (James Grammatikos)
237. you think parkour is the best french invention since french toast (James Grammatikos)
238. you have ever come back from a run and said “I didnt run enough” so you went back outside and ran again (James Grammatikos)
239. you take two of the hardest runs that your team runs and combine them (James Grammatikos)
240. you have a subscription to a runners magazine (James Grammatikos)
241. you take a piss in the woods even if somebody is nearby (James Grammatikos)
242. your friend can name a random word and you have a running story about it (James Grammatikos)
243. you have ever chugged a bottle full of accelerade including the nasty shit on the bottom (James Grammatikos)
244. you join every one of these cross country groups you see to hear different opinions from runners across the globe (James Grammatikos)
245. before the official season starts, you create a playlist whose total time is your goal time for the year, run with it every day until you can run your race distance before the playlist ends. (Jay Hashop)
246. you have ever finished a race without a shoe because it got pulled off in a mud puddle a half mile in. (Audrey Holderness)
246. you have ever finished a race without a shoe because it got pulled off in a mud puddle a half mile in. (Audrey Holderness)
247. If you can engage in a conversation about the differences between brands of running shoes. (Iain Rutherford)
248. If you can’t help but identify the brand of shoe being worn by other competitors in a race (Iain Rutherford)
249. If you start to run anywhere just because walking was too dull. (Iain Rutherford)
250. you’ve had to fight a mob of 300 people in order to recover your chip shoe that came off in the mud. (Jay Hashop)
251. “hit and run” literally means “hit and run” (Jay Hashop)
252. you find yourself laughing through this entire list because you know exactly what they are talking about (Katie Shew)
253. you get respect from the drivers that see you every morning and afternoon on the exact same route at the exact same time (Katie Shew)
254. you have ever been on a family vacation and blurted out “this would be a nice place to run” or “that would be a nice hill to run up” (Katie Shew)
255. you have ever been injured or sick but still bug your coach nonstop if you can go out and at least run a warm-up with your team (Katie Shew)
256. Hugging other men is aloud, sometimes even encouraged. (Brian Hernandez)
257. You can fit all the sports that you participate in into two words, “I run”. (Brian Hernandez)
258. you wear shorts in the winter and ask “What!?” when people give you funny looks. (Brian Hernandez)
259. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people (Andrew Harper)
260. Your school rules for hazing does not apply to your team! (Daniel Dickey)
261. Your coach knows more about you, than you do. (Daniel Dickey)
262. Uniform- Handout-Day doesn’t impede practice at all. (Daniel Dickey)
263. Your team runs out of size small before large. (Daniel Dickey)
264. You have more XC 5k shirts in your wardrobe than any other t-shirts combined. (Daniel Dickey)
265. Your more flexible than the school cheerleaders. (Daniel Dickey)
266. You laugh at the football team,when they “run,” if you can even call it that. (Daniel Dickey)
267. Youve had daydreams of invitationals where everyone is wearing armor and charging the field of battle. (Daniel Dickey)
268. You’ve said aloud “my heart hurts” or “I feel like an 80 year old man” (Daniel Dickey)
269. Your coach has asked you how your feeling, and you laughed hysterically. (Daniel Dickey)
270. You mark the beginning of the season when that Same Toenail, falls off every year. (Daniel Dickey)
271. Your team has memorized dane cook and it is often recited during runs, and it never gets old. (Daniel Dickey)
272.The majority of the guys team has trouble growing facial hair. (Daniel Dickey)
273. You have a strong and irrational hatred for the school band. (Jon Darkey)
274. every time you here a dog bark you jump! (Andy F.)
275. a car horn sounds, you wave and soak it up, regardless whether it was intended for you (Andy F.)
276.you have a route named after you because you were the first one on your team to run it. (Workman way). ( Rik Workman)
277. you have to drive back to school after being picked up from a long run by your coach in the ( Rik Workman)
278. winter with the windows down because your body heat overpowers the defrost. ( Rik Workman)
279. your opponents joke about you blood doping to fulfill their reasoning to why you are just so 280.damn good! ( Rik Workman)
281. you know that you have reached the 10 mile marker on one of your routes because of the smell of that dead skunk that has been there all month! And it doesn’t seem to smell so terribly bad anymore. ( Rik Workman)
282. you use the line, “And all of the beautiful girls from the other teams get pretty much naked right in front of you!” as a way of recruiting freshman for your xc team. ( Rik Workman)
283. one of your bedroom walls is a collage of muddy cross country numbers all pinned together. ( Rik Workman)
284. You are a shoe-brand snob and look down on people who wear Nikes instead of Aasics or New Balance. (Christopher Kelly)
285. Additionally you can tell if someone is a runner just by what type of shoes they wear. (Christopher Kelly)
286.You and your team mates call yourselves hardcore constantly because, let’s face it, you are. (Christopher Kelly)
287. You and your team mates have ludicrous nicknames for each other, the running routes around your school, and ridiculous stories about events during practices, races, and team parties. When you talk about said stories, other people get jealous. (Christopher Kelly)
288. your metabolism is so high that the only time you aren’t eating is when you’re running (Luke Effler)
289. other people think you’re weird because you’re happy when after a race you cant see straight and almost pass out because it means you worked hard (Sarah Britton)
290. you have scars on your legs from other peoples spikes (Sarah Britton)
291. you’ve almost run over a squirrel while out on a run (Sarah Britton)
292. football is for wimps” is a phrase you commonly use (Jessica Preusch)
293. you get excited about a 3 mile run because it’s an ‘easy’ day (Jessica Preusch)
294. you simultaneously love and fear your coaches (Jessica Preusch)
295. you’ve had to deal with the question: ‘what do you do at running camp?’ every time you tell someone that’s how you spent your summer (Jessica Preusch)
296. you are excited to get socks as a buddy gift (Jessica Preusch)
297. you don’t date someone unless they can run 3 miles without stopping because otherwise, they just don’t understand you (Jessica Preusch)
298. you know someone who’s PRed by 13 minutes, and you tell people about it all the time (Jessica Preusch)
299. you mark off the days on your calendar till the season starts (Kathryn Ann)
300. you belive that the 100 meter dash is not even justifiable as a race (for that matter the 200 or the 400) (Kathryn Ann)
301. you get annoyed when people ask “dont you get bored just running around?” (Emma Fesperman)
302. you’re used to built in underwear in shorts (Emma Fesperman)
303. after hours together at invitationals, crazy practices, and tons of inside jokes, you feel incredibly close to your teammates (Emma Fesperman)
304. you look down upon people who run with their iPods (Mike Iannacone)
305.everyone comes up to rub dirt onto your new, white shoes.” (Jessica Baxter)
306. when said pair of shoes shows no signs of ever being white after two weeks of use.”
307. if ‘recovery’ means six miles at a moderate pace.” (Jessica Baxter)
308. if you can’t help but laugh when you see people from the ‘other’ sports run with their waterbottles.” (Jessica Baxter)
309. you have trouble with knee-high leggings because they don’t fit properly over your runners’ legs.” (Jessica Baxter)
310. if the excuse ‘I’m too tired from my run’ has gotten you out of your chores.” (Jessica Baxter)
311. if you’ve gotten lost during a race.” (Jessica Baxter)
312. you hate hearing other “athletes” complain because they have practice when you know yours is WAY harder than what they will do all week… (Jeff Adams)
313. someone tells you they have to run and you assume they are leaving because they are going running (Jennifer Daniels)
314. you get pissed off when your on a trail and the other “runners” have ipods on and cant hear you and move out of the way (Thomas Iannacone)
315. you have heard people tell you “there is no such thing as a hill, hills are only in your mind” (Kathryn Ann)
316. You pick up a date by telling them how fast your mile is. (Spencer Pearson)
317. Your shoes have more milage on them than your car. (Spencer Pearson)
318. you go to a steak house and eat more than your dad and older brother.. combined. (Erin Lane)
319. you find boys that weigh barely 120 attractive (Erin Lane)
320. you’ve been running and you’ve ran through a strangers sprinkles to avoid passing out… and you kept running afterwards (Margaux Genoff)
321. you hear fatigue and you get excited (Margaux Genoff)
322. spandex doesnt turn you on(anymore) (Margaux Genoff)
323 . you eat more than your biggest friends (Margaux Genoff)
324. PRE (Every person to have ever run Cross Country)
325. The most common office supply you have is clothes pins from race numbers (Forrest Revolinski)
326. When i run, I hear “Run, Forrest! Run!” and I ask how they know my name (Forrest Revolinski)
327. you have a time goal for EVERYTHING that you do! (Tanner Bulock)
328. you get excited in the pants when you hear the name kenenisa Bekele (Graeme Nicol)
329. you have ruined seveal pairs of old track spikes because they just couldnt handle the terrain (Graeme Nicol)
330. you have had to take a hose to your legs before getting in the shower (Graeme Nicol)
331. you can name the top 20 runners in your region but you can only name two or three former presidents(prime ministers, because im from canada) (Graeme Nicol)
332. you have pissed in a bottle on the way to a race to avoid the portable toilets (Graeme Nicol)
333. you would sooner piss in the bush before your race then in the portable toilets (Graeme Nicol)
334. your girlfriend outweighs you by more then 20 pounds (Graeme Nicol)
335. you call someone over 140 pounds fat (Graeme Nicol)
336. 100m takes you more then 15 second (Graeme Nicol)
337. you hear multiple people tell you that they saw you running yesterday (Graeme Nicol)
338. you look pathetic when you jump (Graeme Nicol)
339. someone could break you in half (Graeme Nicol)
340. you can mock your opponents funny running style (Graeme Nicol)
341. you sing songs with your team that you would never sing in public otherwise. (ie: The Brady Bunch Theme Song) (Bryan Hulse)
342. you pee your pants with 400 meters left and your male coaches laugh at you. (Kim Goodwin)
343. if more people honk at you when you’re running than do when you’re actually driving. (Bryan Hulse)
344. you have run the last 2 miles of a 5k with a broken leg just to finish the race… and in a time that would beat the vast majority of your friends. (Nick Sykes)
345.You look forward to rain and snow, because it means you won’t be too hot. (Matt Hudson)
345. Your password contains some variation of 3:43:13. (Matt Hudson)
346. You’ve spent at least 10 minutes in the river; after a hard practice or to help your injuries. (Shandra Long)
347. Your coach tells you all these Cross Country stories from High School and College. (Shandra Long)
348. You have so many memmories between you and your team mates. (Shandra Long)
349. You’ve been dead-sprinting down a hill just to realize you’re going to fast for the upcoming turn and instead of slowing down, grab a tree and swing through it Wile E. Coyote-style. (Matt Smith)
350. all your shirts and shorts have permanent brown dots all over the backs of them. (Allie Elizabeth)
351. you have done a hard workout when it is below freezing and blowing snow wearing nothing more than your short shorts and shoes, and you still sweat. (Taylor Hannegan)
352. you can out kick some sprinters (James Evans)
353. you keep a deck of cards right next to your spikes, just so you can get a game of hearts going at the meet (Tony Ramirez)
354. you. hate people who join xc to “get in shape” instead of joining because they love to run (Harrison Ehrlich)
355. you hate people who join xc to get credit 4 a sport (Harrison Ehrlich)
356. The words “after school snack” are a death sentence. (Phoenix Geimer)
357. Your jeans outweigh your entire XC uniform (with shoes) (Phoenix Geimer)
358. You’re protective of your spikes more than your backpack (Phoenix Geimer)
359. You can play Marco Polo in the woods while running. (Carrie W)
360. you’ve ever been chased by multiple dogs after running through someone’s yard (Matt Rich)
361. You can’t go out to lunch with your friends because you know you have a hard work out after school and you dont want it come out the bottom end or come out the top end (Brecon Welton)
362. you hear other people complain about running 3 miles during practice, you say “only 3 miles? Whatd you do, a warm up or something?” and then they all glare at you… (Brecon Welton)
363. its raining, hailing, windy and miserable and you see lightening and all the other sports leaving the area and you stay, then you know youre a runner (and not a pussy) (Brecon Welton)
364. you can vomit after a race without ever getting a drop on yourself or anyone around you. (Eric Morrell)
365. tunnel vision doesn’t mean you are about to die, it means you might PR! (Eric Morrell)
366. You look forward to days when it rains, and lightning has never and will never stop you from running (Aaron Bauer)
367. you consider track to be off season traning. (James Evans)
368. You combine phrases like “10 mile run” and “Easy run” in the same breath. (Spencer Pearson)
369. You can name every runner within a 100 mile radius with a faster PR than you. (Spencer Pearson)
370. You talk argue with the football team which sport is harder. (pussies) (Spencer Pearson)
371. You think a 401k is a long race. (Spencer Pearson)
372. you’ ll sleep on the floor of the bus, no matter how many inches of mud are on the floor (Jenn Restoule)
373. water is your only addiction (James Evans)
374. When sitting in traffic you laugh to yourself thinking “I can run faster than this” (James Evans)
375. you recognize your friends by their shoes (Brian Hall)
376. plan your meals around when you run (Brian Hall)
377. think about your competition more than your girlfriend (Brian Hall)
378. 50 degrees and overcast is your idea of a perfect day (Brian Hall)
379. you laugh at anyone running (Lauren Storm)
380. you hate throwers,sprinters,and anyone who isn’t a distance runner in track (Lauren Storm)
381. you spend more on sports bras that normal ones (Lauren Storm)
382. you’re best friends are in xc (Lauren Storm)
383. you’re team is referred to as a cult (Lauren Storm)
384. you feel guilty not running (Lauren Storm)
385. you spend hours picking out the perfect tennis shoes (Lauren Storm)
386. you’ve ever ran in the front so you can not tell the people behind you that obstacles are coming up just to see what they’re going to do (Tommy Hoffman)
387. Pizza, Pasta, Pizza, & Pasta are your four food groups. (Tessa Valdez)
388. you get angry when people say it’s “just runinng what’s so hard about that” (Winter Kucharski)
389. you get excited when someone has the same spikes as you (Winter Kucharski)
390. you get angry when people don’t know the difference between cross country and track (Winter Kucharski)
391. everywhere you go you expect to see a white line guiding you (Winter Kucharski)
392. golf courses have no other purpose than serving as space for meets (Winter Kucharski)
393. Everyone on your team brings a box of TEXAS TOAST to every team Spaghetti dinner (Brian Welch)
394. when you ask to get a ride home with someone, they say “why don’t you just run home?” (Brian Welch)
395. there is a rough patch where you forgot to take the sticker number off your jersey before you washed it (Brian Welch)
396. you save every running number from every race you have run in (Brian Welch)
397. people make fun of you for wearing a JOG-A-LIGHT (reflector vest) (Brian Welch)
398. you know every line to Chariots of Fire (Brian Welch)
399. you have never stayed all the way through a football game (James Evans)
400.You can run 10 miles no problem, but you get winded walking up a flight of stairs. (Amy Hall)
401. Every hill that you run has a name. (Amy Hall)
402. You feel guilty when you take a day off. (Amy Hall)
403. You recognize which people from other schools have your same name.
404. You hate with a great passion when everyone tells you had a great race but you thought you sucked.
405. you can tell what distance a person runs by the clothing and shoes they wear (Keagan Jaymes Richmond)
406. you’ve squatted in the woods to poop more than you care to know (Louis Butler)
407. You’ve known for half the season that you were in need of medical attention for some type of injury or serious problem, but you continuously told coaches, trainers, and parents that you were just a little sore. (Nicole Morris)
408.Completely submerging your legs into 25 degree ice water with three other people is relaxing. (Nicole Morris)
409. you have ever dodged a flying cup of ice, soda, water ect on a training run. (Alex Daponte)
410. you’ve lost more than one shirt on a run. and you never got them back (Katie Pliml)
411. youve lost toenails and are proud of it (Shaun Bisson)
412 you have referred to your feet as “bad boys” or “these puppies” (Courtney Rechtiene)
413. you rejoice at the words “an easy three” (Angeline Klemm)
414. at the beginning of a race you understand the necessity to obey your coach’s profound command “elbows out!” (Paige Gavin)
415. You’ve ever had to re-start a race 5 times because some stupid straggler keeps tripping in the first 100 yards of the race (Paige Gavin)416. You get mad when some one calls it a track meet when it’s really a cross country meet (Colin Davis)
417. solid poop is something of the past (Matt Brooker)
418. you often wake up sick on thursdays and sundays (Thomas Hester)
419. you base the reasoning behind your favorite season on cross country (Emma Bussard)
420. you eat over 2,000 calories a day yet you’re still hungry (Liz Bonfanti)
421. you get stopped by a train while running so instead of waiting for it to pass you do windsprints (Kaitlin Chantler)
422. your facebook profile pic is something to do with Xc running or track (Brittney Cascanette)
423. you have a 10 mile race one day and a track meet the next, but while everyone else calls you crazy, all it does is remind you of cross country (Nick Leffers)
424. outdoor starts and the first thing you think of is score, cross country’s next (Nick Leffers)
425. You spend more time with your teammates than your own family. (Samantha Stringham)
426. You dedicate your summer vacation to running. (Samantha Stringham)
427. You keep all your race numbers. (Samantha Stringham)
428. You hate running on a busy street because cars honk at you, people yell things at you, and you almost get hit by cars several times. (Samantha Stringham)
429.You start getting creative on your long runs, trying to find different routes, after repeating the same route so many times. (Samantha Stringham)
430. During track workouts you get passed by the sprinters then jump over them as they lay gasping on the track (Neal Anderson)
431. If you judge someone based on the type of running shoe they wear. (Andrew Chaffee)
432. you get angry at the swimmers if, during their off season, they complain about shin splints because they’ve been running a mile every other day for a week. (Jeff Geo-fry Lyman)
433. you have run while it is 17 degrees and blowing snow, wearing nothing more than your shoes and shorts. (Taylor Hannegan)
434. running a race with one shoe, half your piny falling off, while drooling excessively, in rain on a very muddy course is an experience you brag about (Phil Stamato)
435. you spend hours arguing with soccor players over who would win in a 5k between your school’s X-C team and the soccer players who run “1 mile every practice. Sometimes 3″ (Philip Knuepfer)
436. You know what is meant by X-C and didn’t even stop to think about it. (Philip Knuepfer)
437. you know you run CC if 7 people come to your home meet, and its a crowd (Samantha S.)
438. those minor injuries like torn or pulled muscles that make you stop running for a week or two are the worst times of your life (Brent Wheaton)
439. you feel like killing yourself after reading this list because you relize it is all true and that you really need to get a social life (that goes for me to) (Lee Koenigsfeld)
440. you know someone with the nickname “Raptor” (Cora Domsky)
441. When your friends want to go biking to someplace, you run instead. (Sean Tyree)
442. If you barely weigh as much as your shoes. (Slater Ezell)
443. your warm up consists of a pre-pre-warm up, a pre-warm up, and a warm up. (Mike Dabkowski)
444. your most proud moment was the first time you threw up after a race” (Alex Linton)
445. you have to listen to the same song before every race, otherwise your pace is screwed”
446. your worst memory is when you had an awful song stuck in your head. THE ENTIRE TIME!!”
447. you laugh when someone gets exited about running a mile, and you proceed to tell them that your run like 50 miles a week at the very least”
448. the ice bucket is your drug of choice. (you know, that 5 gallon bucket half-full of ice you stick your legs into for 10+ minutes because your calf feels like a thousand splinters and after a few times in the bucket you don’t even notice but everyone still thinks your crazy but really it feels kinda good) (Noah Citron)
449. you become a self proclaimed expert at “evasive rolls” (David Mangone)
450. No trespassing signs have no meaning to you (David Mangone)
451. you get flat tire-ed during a race and dont stop to tie your shoe. you finish the bitch barefoot. (Derek Sandblom)
452. Your motto is: “if it ain’t coming out clear, you’re not drinking enough water.” (Peter Rebholz)
453. if you hate wearing swm suits because of your running tan lines. (Emily Elizabeth Beckfield)
454. during the winter season you would be nothing with out your running hat, which some how finds a way to make it into your usual wardrobe. (Sean Laffey)
455. you find safety pins from your numbers all over your bag and room. (Katie Scheidler)
456. you’re upset with your race so you run home from the meet (true) (James Hill)
457. your coach is mad that you lost and he runs home from the meet (true) (James Hill)
458 you realize that your current summer mileage is longer than the length of this list.
459. If you spent 2.5 hours updating this list and all you could think about is how many miles you could have run in that time and you then schedule a very long run the for the next Sunday to find out…
460. you get stung by a bee in the neck, but you still continue your 20mile workout and you still PR (Tony Catalano)
