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

you pass on going out on a date because you have to get up early and run in the morning.

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your car smells like a gym locker

your tired of having the same old conversation about how much your training so you decide it easier to just lie when people ask you about your mileage.

Pewow wrote:

When you get a Road ID that says "Pause my Garmin."

Winner!

Can't remember the last time you had a solid stool and got wood on the same day.

Breathe heavily walking to get the mail.

Have a standing weekly order at the grocery store that takes up half of a pickup bed.

You're thinking about how great it will feel to take a nap while you're brushing your teeth after a morning run

You're too tired to get off the couch and make dinner but you're too hungry to not make anything

Drinking a recovery shake while taking a dump is a daily ritual

My personal favorite, when you take your shorts/tights off after a long run/workout bloodstains are both normal and expected

You go home from work and was hoping you had more time with your coach that day.

TOTALLY AGREE wrote:

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

I can't believe guys who say this.

I was averaging 130mpw, two a days, and still had sex with my very got girlfriend EVERY night. It was scheduled. She may have been on top most of the time, but it was at least once a day, and several times on weekends.

Some people are born with different libido's than others.

The walking up the stairs think like a 90 year old is a good one.

Eating massive amounts of carbs, ice cream, whatever. I would carbo load twice a day.

Other ways to know you are training hard:

All of your running clothes are dirty ALWAYS. You have no time to do your wash.

You start picking out your running clothes for that run by which are the least stiff from dried sweat...which smell the least like ammonia from dried sweat.

You sleep 11-13 hours a night. (Thanks Marty Liquori for telling us it is normal, lol).

You're exhausted, but looking forward to tomorrows two runs and the runners high.

You finish a 20 miler, stop at a 7/11 on the way home and say "f it" and down 32 ounces of Dr. Pepper.

You finish a great work out, shower, put on work out clothes and then sit an an out door cafe drinking coffee and watching all the "lazy" walkers.

When cars of with high school girld drive by you and give you cat calls and comment on how sexy your legs are. And your 38.

You feel satisfied and like you accomplished something great while being beat every night.

You feel sad for those that are born unable to run, really run.

When you weight 160-165 lbs, but your back feels worse than it did when you used to weight 230 lbs, due to flying down a rail trail the previous day.

You're the most tired you've ever been but can't sleep (he writes at 1 AM).

ailidh wrote:

...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.

So true. Been there.

You do 10 mile recovery runs.

When your coworkers greet you each morning with a daily serving of MACARENA!!!!

You know you're training hard when....you can't stop sharting blood.

I laughed so hard...

really? You have bloody fecal matter leaking from your rectum while training hard? I would get that checked out. Not normal.

you've turned practically asexual.

Let's bring this thread back...

When the closest thing to a day off you can remember is that 8 miler you only did at 7 pace.

- a 12 miler goes by like you blinked. Seems like a short dream.

- you take the bus to the outskirts of the city in your running gear because you've run your limit of 22-24 miles in every direction so many times, you need to start further out to see new scenery.

- you have permanent suntan marks shaped like a singlet.

- you work out almost all of your problems / life issues while running.

- you can easily consume 2 litres (2+ quarts) of liquid in a couple minutes after a long run, and have to hold off drinking more because you've learned the hard way that it makes you sick within 10 minutes.

- you wake up to coffee and LetsRun.

bloody urine after a really hard track session