Top 10 Reasons You Know You're Training For Ironman

10. You eat 6 full meals a day and your clothes still don't fit.

9. People no longer greet you with "hi, how are you?", you are greeted with "Did you bike yet today?"

8. You take power naps in your car at red lights and stop signs and sleep through your meal breaks at work.

7. You have to wear high collared shirts to cover the permanent hickey on your neck... from your wetsuit (Yet no one ever believes that excuse).

6. You need a rolling suitcase to get your lunch to work and you require an entire shelf in the staff fridge.

5. You plan your daily tasks in terms of heart rate zones, ie: grocery shopping - 80% of target heart rate, aiming for a negative split between aisles 1 through 5 and again in aisles 6 through 10 ... and then you log this in your training journal

4. You are an expert at pee-ing in the bushes (or side of the road if there are no bushes available)

3. You contemplate going to bed in your running gear (fuel belt included) to have an extra 3 minute sleep-in the next morning

2. Rest day is the equivilant of a religious holiday in your home.

1. Your family/co-workers/friends all agree that you have a mental illness but yet... you can't imagine speding your time doing anything else in the entire world