#racewalker

You scoff at paying $10 for a movie ticket, but you'll happily pay $20 for a 5-K hat you hope lasts less than 30 minutes.

You have more racewalk clothes than regular clothes

You can no longer stand the word "powerwalk" or "powerwalking. (If you're a racewalker who also runs, then you also take umbrage to being called a jogger... EVERYONE knows joggers are anyone slower than you when you are racewalking!)

You sometimes don't have all ten toenails

Someone asks you how far the beach is, and you say, "2.68 miles, unless you racewalk around the block first. Then it's 3.77 miles.

You do laundry and you realize more than half of what you're washing is training gear.

 You wake up in the morning and plan your day around your racewalking.

Safety pins are taking over your room (or house)

When you hate yourself all race, finish- and want to race it again.

When you're asked how your weekend was, you can only reply in miles and time splits.

When you hear "bad PR" and you think it stands for something other than public relations

You pass up Friday nights out with your friends because you have to get up Saturday to do your long day.

No matter how bad the hangover, you still do your training

You'd rather wear sneakers than heels or flats

You go for a pedi and it's obvious the person doing it thinks your feet look nasty

your watch is your most expensive piece of jewelry

you have no qualms about porta-potties

Someone asks you to bring a bib to a baby shower, and the one you bring isn't exactly the kind babies wear eating

Your calves are bigger than the lower part of your thighs

Your foam roller and massage sticks are your favorite frenemies

You have a drawer full of medals you're unsure of what to do with

you hallucinate and get high at the same time without taking anything

you enjoy training in the rain.

you get an invitation to a wedding and you automatically think about what race the date will conflict with.

you are walking in NYC and think everyone on the sidewalk is frustratingly slow

you're always hungry

you love spandex

you pack more training clothes than bathing suits when going on a beach vacation.

your holiday/birthday wish list can be fulfilled at any running or sporting goods store.

at least one of your drawers has nothing but training attire

you know where your illiotibial band is located.

You've had at least one time you were ecstatic to see a portapotty

 you can remember a time from a race 4 years ago, but you can’t remember your friend’s birthdays.

you know how to correctly spell and pronounce plantar fasciitis.

Your Facebook posts and Tweets are often about racewalking

You still use Yahoo!groups in 2013

you have a line in your budget for “race entry fees/race travel”.

you want to either cry or punch your doctor in the face when he tells you that you can’t racewalk for two weeks.

You know the location of every convenience store, public restroom, and water fountain in racewalking distance from your home.

your friends know to never call you after 11 pm

when someone asks you what you did today, you respond with a number

someone asks "how many miles do you do a day?" and you sigh deeply

You know the best way to silence haters is to convince them to try racewalk "just for today's practice"- either they become a racewalker or say something like "how do you do this?! It hurts like hell!"

you have chafing in strange places.

you use the words "6 miles" and "easy" in the same sentence

you check your calendar for races before making plans.

Your hips are the most important part of your body and it has nothing to do with "looking hot"