You know you're training hard when....

When you can run faster than Galen Rupp, eat more than Jabba the Hutt, and if you're kept up at 9, you'll do your nut!

when eating feels like a chore. ugh

When you have undigested corn in your poo, but you didn't eat any corn.

When your legs spasm uncontrollably.

When you wake up in the middle of the night with a massive charlie horse in your hammy.

When you wake up in the middle of the night sweating like crazy (despite it being cold in the house).

When you have to hobble up the stairs like a 90 y.o man.

This thread makes me hate running

When everyone at your work probably assumes you must be bulimic.

opossums wrote:

when you knock over a toddler during a fartlek but don't stop to see if she is ok.

.......don't stop to see if she/he is ok and you don't even know or care if it was a boy or girl.

slartibartfast wrote:

The runners twice your age go out and party after the St Patricks's Day race, while you go home and take a nap.

Two beers get you drunk.

You drink a gallon of water after your workout and still can't pee.

Your wife puts on some lingerie but all you can think about is how much work that would entail.

Seriously! I was running 80 a week and cycling 200 miles a week (in grad school after my 4 years of running) and I was dating the hottest girl on the soccer team at my University and Sex was such was such a chore... (wanted to say pain in the a$$ but I know the jokes that will follow)

God I really hate running

When you go to the grocery store for your weekly shopping trip and have to go back the next day because you've already eaten everything.

to tire and sore to change out of your work out clothes and going to sleep

consumption junction wrote:

When you go to the grocery store for your weekly shopping trip and have to go back the next day because you've already eaten everything.

Then you release it from your body with Diarrhea.

You slide down the stairs on your butt.

You sweat so much it smells like ammonia.

When I did a lot of 2-a-days, sometimes it would take me a second to remember if I had run or not that morning and how far/where.

The sub-2min woods crap, the painful shower chaffing, the leg night tremors, and the coworkers thinking you are bulimic/AIDS/chemo/etc are classics.

aquillanishairband wrote:

You've got the cowboy walk on & despite being incredibly fit you walk up stairs like a 90 year old.

How about running until a certain body part is chafed and bloody and you could easily have stopped the workout since your mile repeats were started at your car but you kept going and did the last 3 AND your cooldown.

- When you are on the last and final belt loop and realize you might have to make a new hole.

- Co-Workers start commenting that you might blow away in the wind when you are walking across the parking lot with them after work.

- Veins visible in your lower abs, hips.

- Girls do not even look you in the eye when you pass by. (but they did when you were, by your terms "out of shape")

- Depression rolls in at the 12th week of training.

- No sexual desire

- Parents commenting "you really don't look good"

bingo.

...you think your level of fatigue seems appropriate for how hard you're training, but three weeks later find out the real reason you feel like death is that you have mono.

One random guy, while standing in line at a sub shop the other day, started staring at me. When I looked at him, he paused, then asked "are you a runner?" I also had one girl look at me at a party and say "you look really...fast".

Too bad she wasn't wearing speed goggles that night.

I'll be honest here. Even though I was still very social during my heavy training periods, I had very little luck with women. It was sort of depressing. A couple years ago, when I beefed up a little bit and was running maybe 15-20 miles a week, girls started giving me more attention. I could see it in their body language and eye contact when talking with me.

We must look really odd to the rest of the public.

My friends wife was always able to tell competitive runners a part from others, even out in public. She would always say..."you guys have a particular look".

Midwest town wrote:

When you have undigested corn in your poo, but you didn't eat any corn.

Classic!