You Know You Are Running in Northeast Colorado If…

• One day you are running bundled up in everything you own due to wind/cold/snow/etc.
• And the next day you are running in a light weight shirt and skort.
• And the next day you run indoors on the treadmill because the wind is blowing too hard to even walk outside.
• While running in light shirt and skort, you are still avoiding snow and ice on your route.
• During any run in excess of 6 miles you can play Barnyard Animal Bingo!  Horses, cows, calves!, goats, sheep, lambs!, llamas, chickens, geese, pygmy goat…
• You can run from one town to another and there are miles of open space between them.
• You have ever answered a call of nature behind a hay stack.
• You have ever been paced by a skunk in the bar ditch (for about 50 yards).
• You have ever had a red fox follow along in front for a while.
• You have ever been ‘led’ by an hysterical killdeer that refuses to flush away from the road.
• You plan your route to avoid field fertilizer trucks.
• You plan your route to avoid any crop harvest trucks.
• You pass a combine driving down the road.
• The guy in the combine asks if you need a ride.
• You know the location of every dog in 18 miles.
• You consider a run around your town your ‘short’ day.
• You do laps around your town to get your miles on windy days.
• In the summer you plan a route that passes all the local trees for shade (because there aren’t many trees).
• In the winter you plan a route that avoids drift problem areas.
• People building a barn, fixing a tractor, frolicking on an ATV, burning ditches or moving cattle stop to watch YOU go by.