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Getting fitted for running shoes.
Getting a stress fracture in my 4th metatarsal and getting worried about not being able to run.
When you haven't seen friends for a few months, and the first thing they ask is what race you're currently training for.
When the first thing you do in the morning is look out the window to see what kind of running weather it's like.
When your girlfriend comments that "all you do is sit on that damn forum!"
You're known by people in your University modules as "that guy who runs" (this is also the same with music & me constantly wearing band t-shirts to lectures)
When you can hold a conversation with biologists about mitochondria.
when you realise that your job has merely become a means to refuel and recover in between runs.
You go to a wedding and know say 2 people, yet everyone knows you as "the runner"
you spend a big chunk of the week justifying why you run and why you eat as you do.
you find you can chat to anyone about running at any time.
random people ask you for tips and advice!
...when you seem to think that entering hellrunner is a fantastic idea......
When you're visiting family or friends and you ask them to wake you up at the crack of dawn so you can run.
When you use copies of your Santa Run pics as Christmas cards
When your postman knows you as "the lady who runs"
Ah, not the only one with a kit drawer....
'You know you're a runner when...'
You take off the ipod for races
When you pass up fantastic social events as you have a race the next day and it dose not really bother you ! ( Wouldn't have done that a few years ago)
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Also have a kit drawer and a whole special wardrobe space for my trainers (which I keep telling my OH that I need more of as I need dif ones for def distances) .
I have a kit drawer...
When you go out during that cold snap earlier in the year to buy trail trainers because your normal road shoes just don't cut it in the snow.
When thinking about what you could do to celebrate your 40th birthday you opt for running your 1st marathon over a cruise or a trip to Disney World...
What Sunny2 said about getting t-shirts. At the last count I had 30 unworn
More 'you know you're a runner' stuff here: http://www.athenryac.com/you-know-you039re-runner-when
Some of those are weird Paul OH, i like some of them but some of the ones about weight are odd, I don't want to look like a famine victim and neither do i take it as a compliment when people tell me i'm "so thin", I go and eat more steaks!
However I have been known to wash my shorts in the shower and my relatives and co-workers do think i'm crazy!
My kit drawer is the tidiest drawer I have !!
Got to agree with K8greene.
another couple spring to mind, when you think of responses to threads on the rw website forum at work then rush home to respond or when you catch a train, bus or get a neighbour to give you a lift to somewhere so you can run back from
I also have a kit drawer, a kit box and a kit corner in the kitchen
However, I reckon having whiplash from falling off my bike or constant black eyes from tripping and falling on my head when running is more indicative that the kit stashes
I have a kit drawer, but it has hiking gear in it as well. It sort of closes properly if I give it a kick.
I reckon you know you're a runner when February marks the beginning of "shorts" weather!
Also have a dedicated shoe (trainer) rack.
Sitting here nodding at most of the posts above!
Another couple I thought of:
Being extremely particular about your pre-race breakfast.
When you get talked into taking up hill running, find it outrageously tough, and then find yourself turning up to the next one for another round of pain and exhaustion.