You know you're a triathlete when....

Either you swim really, really fast or you had a whole lot of pee to pee.

Sooo guilty of that. I was setting up my apartment last weekend at school...and the first thing I thought was.."where is my bike going to rest?". Last year, I kept it in my dorm room...I'm blessed with an amazingly understanding roommate.

You get on this forum and you are not shocked or appalled to read TONS of references to bodily functions.  Even the really graphic ones don't even make you blink.

I'll know I've arrived when I too start indiscriminately posting about how many times I had to visit the porta pottie, or what I did in the lake or behind the bushes.

OH NO!

I'm doing it already!

Your coworkers are used to you coming in late to meetings with wet hair in a ponytail because you trained on your lunch hour.

You start sweating cholrine because you swim too much.

Your workout clothes and gear is more expensive than your normal wardrobe.

You have a million water bottles in your cabinets.

You buy powergels by the case.

People don't recognize you in public unless you're at the gym or training.

You have a million swim caps.

You plan your vacations around races.

Your vehicle becomes a permenant storage shed for your bike and tri gear.

You have to pack 2 gym bags for one day- one for swimming before work, and the other for running or biking after work.

You start wearing your sports watch as a dress watch because you think since it's black it goes with everything!

You start wearing your cool cycling socks as dress/trousers socks.

You evaluate every body of water-lake, river, crawfish pond, sewage oxidation facility- as to the possibilities of accomodating a triathlon.

You meet triathlon acquaintances in the everyday world, it takes them a while to place you, then they say, "Oh, I didn't recognize you with your clothes on."