You know you are a long distance runner when…
1 mins- 5k and 10k are ‘short’ runs.
- Your weekly mileage is 25k and turns out to be a terrible week.
- You hit your ‘warm-up’ point at the 10km mark and hit your zone after 20km.
- You keep referring to your watch as ‘Garmin’.
- You’ve been running for 2 hours and you tell yourself “only 1 more hour to go”.
- You measure the distance between nearby cities as “two marathons”, “three marathons”, etc.
- You start your long run on weekend mornings even if it’s drizzling cuz “it’s going to stop raining some time in the next few hours”.
- Every new place you visit (especially those with beautiful landscapes), you are thinking “Gee wiz! It sure will be nice to run around here!”
- Meditation class runs concurrently with your long run.
- Friday night ritual involves: heavy carb loading, extra hydration, corralling all the running gear, charging the Garmin, setting multiple wake-up alarms on your phone.
- You are stuck in a traffic jam and you start thinking ruefully “I could have run the distance in less time!”
- You return home from a 2-hour run and your spouse greets you with concern – “Back so soon? Everything ok?”