You Know You’re an Ultra Runner If…

Great (huge!) list of things (by various authors) that will give you away as an ultra runner. Check out the complete list on Ultrarunning for love

1. Your wife tries to introduce you to your three children and you reply “Three?”
2. You spend more time in the drug section than the food section of the local market.
3. You wonder why they don’t make all running socks a dusty brown color.
4. You have more dirt on your shoes than in your garden.
5. You think that flagel and ibutrophin belong on the breakfast table.
6. You get more phone calls at 5:00 AM than at 5:00 PM.
7. You don’t recognize your friends with their clothes on.
8. You have more buckles than belts.
9. You postpone your wedding because it will interfere with your training.
10. You keep mistaking your boss for Norm Klein.
11. 6am is sleeping in.
12. Your feet look better without toenails.
13. Your idea of a fun date is a 30-mile training run.
14. You’re tempted to look for a bush when there’s a long line for the public restroom.
15. You don’t think twice about eating food you’ve picked up off the floor.
16. You can expound on the virtues of eating salt.
17. You develop an unnatural fear of mountain lions.
18. When you wake up without the alarm at 4AM, pop out of bed and think “lets hit the trails”.
19. When you can recite the protein grams by heart of each energy bar.
20. You don’t even LOOK for the Porto-sans anymore.
21. Your ideal way to celebrate your birthday is to run at least your age in miles with some fellow crazies.
22. Your ideal way to have fun is to run as far as you can afford to with some fellow crazies.
23. You know the location of every 7-11, public restroom, and water fountain within a 25-mile radius of your house.
24. You run marathons for speed work.
25. You have more fanny packs and water bottles and flashlights than Imelda Marcos has shoes.