You know you've caught the running bug when... (Read 2175 times)

You know you've caught the running bug when... a 25 km run isn't a big deal anymore....

1. When you run in 40mph wind, through 5 dogs that chase you (very big and very scary) and in rain and cold!! 2. When you look at 3 miles as a sprinting distance. 3. When you run through black toenails that are falling off. 4. When you start to think 26.2 miles isn't too far.....

-You're embarrased by the your 5K PR because it's the first race you ever ran and didn't train for it. -Your family is annoyed that you only want running gear for presents - You take your family to Disney and all you can think is that if you can convince the kids to leave early you can get 3 miles in before bed. -After spending 2 days chasing the kids around Disney 3 miles before bed still seems like a good idea. -You stay up half the night to think up reasons you've caught the bug

When your sitting in the middle of a 50 minute mass at church and you think that if they put a treadmill in church you could run an easy 5 miles.

Ooooh! You are BAD. Penance due.

When driving anywhere hilly the first thing you think of is "wow, that would be an awesome workout hill!".

<quote pid="1d8492a671344614aed2f05a5d608da1-after spending 2 days chasing the kids around disney 3 miles before bed still seems like a good idea. </quote> try saturday - chase the kids/carry the kids around disney (especially that one park where they have all the rope nets to climb on - maybe that was universal studios islands of adventure though) sunday morning - disney marathon sunday afternoon - walk around magic kingdom with 4 yr old on your shoulders. that's pretty much how my first marathon weekend went so i can definitely relate. pid=""></quote pid="1d8492a671344614aed2f05a5d608da1-after spending 2 days chasing the kids around disney 3 miles before bed still seems like a good idea. </quote> try saturday - chase the kids/carry the kids around disney (especially that one park where they have all the rope nets to climb on - maybe that was universal studios islands of adventure though) sunday morning - disney marathon sunday afternoon - walk around magic kingdom with 4 yr old on your shoulders. that's pretty much how my first marathon weekend went so i can definitely relate. >

I was thinking more along the lines of "Wow, can you imagine if this was the 5K course for this weekend?"

Oh, I've had thoughts like that too and usually it comes with an outburst to the poor soul who is in the van with me, it goes something like this..."WOW, look at that hill, could you imagine running that!?!". The response is always "NO MOM."

...I'm feeling a bit jealous of the runners I see while I'm driving around town during the weekend - even though I already did my 10+ mile long run earlier that morning!