Before I was a runner...

As distance runners, we have a jargon all our own. To non-runners, it can sound like a foreign language when we start rattling on about this and that. I thought it might be fun to list some of the phrases or truths that I've come to understand since becoming addicted to running.

Before I was a runner

• PR meant Puerto Rico
• Lap Splits sounded like something I'd have to pay extra for at a strip club.
• Negative Splits sounded like something I paid extra for that went awry.
• Running in the woods? Not without a bear chasing me!
• Defecating in the woods? Umm...
• When someone said "it's freezing outside", I didn't think "oh, that's warm!"
• Waking up at 4:45am when the wind chill is -1 on a Wednesday morning meant crawling back into bed - NOT getting outside for 80-90 minutes.
• I never knew my nipples would produce anything, let alone blood.
• A marathon happened every year, around Christmas time, when TBS would play A Christmas Story for 24 hours straight.
• The only times I was up to see the sun rise were the nights I hadn't gone to bed yet.
• If I disappeared for a couple of hours with a woman friend of mine and came home all sore and sweaty, there'd be a few more questions than "So, how was it?"

How about you?