You know you are obsessed when.......

This is a funny post on Slowtwitch. I thought it was funny at first, & then I
realized all but 3 fit me to a tee. #48 because I never went to collage, #47
Because I make inmates mow mine (leaves more time to train). & 27 because there
isn't enough time in the day to shave myself from the ankles up. God gave me a
365 day a year furr coat.

50. You are over 30 and there is still someone in your life that you refer to as
“coach”.
49. Your last bike cost more than your first car.
48. You have peed outdoors more times in the last year than you did in your
first year of university.
47. You think of mowing the lawn as a form of cross-training.
46. You’ve worn a heart-rate monitor to bed.
45. And it wasn’t when you were sleeping.
44. You refer to the front hall of your house as the “transition area”.
43. When you get home from a training session at the pool, the newspaper is just
being delivered to your house.
42. You have changed more flat tires this year than light bulbs.
41. The most frequently used software program on your computer is the one that keeps track of your
workouts.
40. You have no idea why they call Cal Ripken Jr. “Iron Man” when, after all, he
was a baseball player.
39. The first three items on your grocery list are Gatorade, power bars, and
gels.
38. When you floss at night, it’s to get the bugs out of your teeth.
37. Your legs move in a cycling motion while you are asleep.
36. When you see a drop of blood, your first reaction is that you spilled some
red Gatorade.
35. You know how far you biked and ran last year, to one-tenth of a kilometre.
34. You think the ultimate form of wallpaper is about 64 racing bibs.
33. A 19-year old kid who works in a bicycle shop know more about you than your
next-door neighbour.
32. Your children are more likely to recognize you if you put your bicycle
helmet.
31. You have a vanity licence plate with the work “Kona” in it.
30. About half the shirts you own have at least a dozen logos on the back of
them.
29. You don’t find the word “fartlek” in the least bit amusing.
28. When you refer to your “partner”, you mean neither your spouse nor the
co-owner of your business but the person you run or bike with three times a
week.
27. You shave your legs more often than your wife.
26. The closest you came to punching somebody was when they disagreed with your
position on whether wearing a wetsuit amounts to cheating.
25. It doesn’t feel right that you can’t “clip “ in and out of the pedals in
your car.
24. There is a group of people in your life about whom you are more likely to
know how fast they can swim 100 metres than their surnames or occupations.
23. Some of the shorts you wear today are tighter than the ones you wore in high
school.
22. You are frustrated with the latest Garmin Forerunner because its live
readings have a margin of error of approximately three per cent.
21. There’s a separate load of laundry every week that is just your workout
clothes.
20. One of your goals this year is to be faster at getting out of your wetsuit.
19. You failed high school chemistry but you could teach a course on lactic
acid.
18. All you want for Christmas is something called a carbon crank set.
17. You wore a digital watch to your wedding.
16. You have to have completely separate meals from your spouse because he or
she is on a low-carb diet.
15. Your bicycle is in your living room.
14. You have stocked up on a brand of cereal because it has a coupon that will
save you money on your next two pairs of running shoes.
13. In order to establish a new personal best, you considered peeing without
getting off your bike.
12. One of your proudest moments is when you lost a toenail.
11. When a car follows too closely behind you, you accuse the driver of
“drafting”.
10. When you went for a job interview, you wrote your social insurance number on
your arm in black marker.
9. Your spouse cried during Terms of Endearment; you cried during the television
coverage of the Hawaii Ironman.
8. You are comfortable discussing the sensitivity of your nipples with other guys.
7. Your spouse is looking forward to the day when you will slow down and just
run marathons.
6. You have paused in front of the mirror in your wetsuit and thought, “Hey, I
look like Spiderman.”
5. You see no issue with talking about treatments for chafing or saddle rash at
the dinner table.
4. You recently asked your spouse out for dinner by asking if he or she wanted
to “fuel up” together.
3. For you, “bonking” no longer has a sexual connotation.
2. The magazine secretly tucked under your mattress has pictures of really
expensive bicycles in it.
And the No. 1 sign you’re obsessed:
1. Most of this list doesn’t seem like a joke to you.