Your favorite colors are mud and goose poop green.
You claim that you were once chicked by a squirrel. People have asked how you knew this.
People are impressed by your ability to identify most trees just from the exposed roots.
You own t-shirts that say stuff like: “Have you shoulder checked a tree today? Pavement is for people who like predictability. And who needs toenails anyway?”
Everyone loves your dog, Barkley, who gets lost a lot, mostly in Tennessee.
You say sentences like “I was code brown on a quad buster then I hit this tourist douche grade, and the next thing I knew, I was roadkill.”
A friend once caught you painting a toenail black.
You know the names of the winners of the Western States 100 going back 20 years but have never seen The Voice, Chopped or The Walking Dead.
Once you were asked if you had read Jack London’s Call of the Wild, and you said mostly I just use leaves.
You were briefly detained for smuggling sweet potato brownies across the Canadian border.
Please check out the running terms/jargon links, they’re amazing!
Sweet Potato Brownie Recipe from Chocolate Covered Katie
56 Running Terms from Road Runner Sports
Ultra Running Jargon from Outside Magazine
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