Strange...

Here is a fun little test. You might be training for the X-Alps if you...

1) Eat your breakfast cereal out of a pasta bowl...
2) Balance on the ball of one foot whilst cleaning your teeth...
3) Walk or run back and forth to work every day...
4) Add lead weights to your bag for the above mentioned walk...
5) Find yourself analysing every available space, no matter how tiny and trying to work out if you could land your paraglider in it if you had to...
6) Have 5 pairs of running shoes, and you use them all...
7) Ask 'how much does it weigh? when buying anything...
8) Decide to park your car 20km away and 1800m lower than the place you are planning to fly XC from...
9) Forget that you have your glider on your back whilst walking...
10) Have become obsessed with Google Earth and maps of the Alps...

Ah, just realised the last one applies to almost every paraglider pilot who flys in the Alps!  Anyhow, they are all true and I'm sure my fellow competitors could add a good few to the list...

Cheers!