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On Sunday afternoon, it came to my time for a run. The weather, I have to say, was against me - horizontal rain. Neverthe less, I pulled on my kit and my trainers and started to warm up.
"You're not going out in that, are you?" asked my sister.
"Look at it like this", I said. "I'ts London Marathon day, and it's raining. I'm not going to turn around and say 'I can't take part, I might get wet!', am I?"
"Oooh, look's like you're a proper runner now," she answered. It was at this point that I realised yes, I am a proper runner. Not a quick one, but I'm taking it seriously in the hope that I will be able to complete a marathon next year.
Has anyone else had such an epiphany?
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Me: "I was on the Runners World forum..."
Sarcastic mate: "Oh, yeah, I'm always on there, can't get me off the thing!"
I have just had a dream about my orthotics! I have just realised that running is occupying my thoughts too much.
MM
LOL Lady Pineapple - I do that too!!
What about finding yourself standing in a changing room drying your orthotics with a hairdryer after a particularly wet run because you can't possibly not wear them for the rest of the day in case your knees play up?!
Or going on a shopping trip and spending £100 on trainers and £15 on your Xmas party dress?
Ahem - I was so pleased to collect my orthotics after renovation I actually kissed them.
Now don't go telling everybody
When all you think about, talk about and do is run,
When you sit at work and calculate your average half marathon time then do it again after dropping the very slowest time - becasue that was just done for a laugh and doesn't count
When I started to refer to Ibuprofen as vitamin I.
The excitement at trying out a new piece of kit...
discovering a new route...
vaseline...
the panic at suddenly remembering you've forgotten to enter your last run on Fetch...
putting running before other things like housework, food shopping and significant others...
And the intoxicating pva smell of brand. new. r*nning shoes
You have a special drawer (or drawers) for your running kit, and they are all full.
You have more pairs of running shoes than work/dress shoes put together.
When you have to go to a work conference, you check out running routes around the hotel/whether it has a gym before booking.
When everything on your birthday or christmas list is running related.
"Another one Phil?"
"Nah, six is my limit thanks. I've got a race on Sunday"
"But it's Friday!"
"I know!"
I know what you mean DianaD. It's my 40th soon, and everyone is asking what I want.
"Asics 2120 size 8 and a decent HRM".
I'm getting some really funny looks.
When you add a message to a forum and still consider yourself a runner even though you've only run about 10 times since the London marathon 2006!
-i will get back in to it ...
this is the first step!
Nessie, I have a kit cupboard! I just can't get rid of any of the t-shirts we get given at races, call me senti-mental.
I end up always wearing my lucky kit tho!
when you wish people would ask you what you want for christmas or your birthday and you can produce a very long list of running kit.....
I have a cupboard as well....extra kit always comes in handy.
When you can stand at a urinal in a local park (before the start of a race) and ask the person next to you if they have vaseline!
When you can describe to people the birth of your son is the second best feeling after breaking three hours for the first time.
When you're thinking about potential running-related birthday presents (and even Christmas presents) and your birthday isn't until November, and you're wondering whether you can possibly hold off buying any of this stuff until then, even though you only bought some new kit recently.
When you're completely snowed under at work, but can't resist spending all your time on forums like this.
Reading through the above, nodding at most of them!
When the sales start and you go to Sweatshop before Debenhams/M&S/Next.
When I asked for new running shoes for my birthday...
And I am trying to work out how many races I can afford to enter with the rest of my birthday money...
And planning my 40th birthday party next year as a fundraiser towards my FLM place....'no presents please just donations to my charity'
My family think I have flipped!!