1. The importance of pre-race rituals.
2. That feeling you get right before the gun.
3. The inability to simply walk up a flight of stairs.
4. The love-hate relationship of running.
5. Laughing when people say it’s a non-contact sport.
6. Feeling completely comfortable in shorts THIS short.
7. Underestimating the difficulty of the steeple-chase.
8. How it feels to take the lead in the last 50m:
9. Becoming an instant diva over the smallest details.
10. Frantically untagging any pictures taken of you during a meet.
No one said running had to be pretty.
11. The never ending animosity between sprinters and long distance runners.
12. Eating 3 bowls of pasta the night before a meet.
13. Getting nervous if the runner next to you has bad-ass flats.
14. The importance of looking both ways before crossing the track.
15. Anticipating the lane assignments:
16. The awkward tan lines after an outdoor season.
17. Controlling your anger when someone in your relay gets you all disqualified.
18. The fear of being pushed up into a faster heat and coming in dead last.
19. Constantly having one bruised knee from hurdles.
20. Struggling to reason with non-runners.
21. Wondering if high-knees drills really did anything at all.
22. Understanding the true value of a few inches.
23. Having the coach surprise you with an event you have never run before.
24. Falling in a race and trying to recover gracefully.
25. Always being thankful you didn’t try pole vault.
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25 Things Only Track And Field Runners Can Understand
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