You might be a Cross Country Runner if...

I found these online and thought they were hilarious. I gave a copy to the team today. I identify with most of these!

You might be a cross country runner if ...
Your shoes have more miles on them than you car does.
You run farther in a week than your bus travels for meets.
Your dog can’t keep up with you on runs.
You combine phrases like "10 Mile" and "Easy Run" in the same breath.
You can eat your weight in spaghetti.
You spend more on training clothes than school clothes.
You wear those same training clothes to school reguarly.
You carry a water bottle with you everywhere you go.
You're running in your dreams.
Your underwear covers more than your running shorts
The most enjoyable time you've had all month is a day off from practice
Your coach won’t give you a ride home
Your temper is shorter than the distance you ran
Your Christmas list includes mostly running apparel and shoes
The mile in P.E. becomes your warm-up
You wake up every morning in pain
Your Saturdays for the next 4 years are ruined
You get a Saturday off, plan to sleep in…but wake up at 4:30 itching to run anyway
You can maintain a 5:30 pace uphill while throwing up.
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.
Runner's World provides you with more pin-ups than Playboy
Steve Prefontaine's Birthday is more important than yours
You know as many kinds of pain as eskimos have words for snow
You don’t know what “off-season” means
You find yourself saying “it’s not really a hill”
Your feet are comparable to rawhide
You’re running and you don’t know why anymore
Your friends refer to you as ‘the masochist’
You talk to your coach more than your parents
You run the day after State
You haven’t had a soda in 6 months
You can hallucinate and get high without taking anything
You wake up in the morning and find that you are already running
Your heart rate is below 50 and you’re not dying
Talking about the color of you pee is as natural as talking about the weather
You don’t laugh everytime you hear ‘fartlek’
You have less than 5% body fat but you’re not from Somalia
You feel 1 second is a lot of time
You use the odometer in your car for clocking runs, not gas millage
You know more about your body than most non-sports doctors
You wish your school had an oversees program in Kenya
You know the precise lengths of every piece of road within 20 miles of your house
You know why they call quads quads because you can count all 4 of yours