What is this "runner's high" you speak of

[imported_Imp]

It's the feeling of your energy being completely drained, you so out of breath that your lungs can't keep up and yet you're still running. This came for me after 2 km after years of no running.

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: mcurphy
I hate running. Absolutely freakin hate it. Even when I was 18 years old, in the best shape of my life after years of training in both running and weights for football and baseball, I still hated running. I don't see where anyone could ever find joy in running.

qft. i've played soccer since i was a kid, but running by itself is boring as shit.

i feel the EXACT same. running sucks because it's boring. i've never gotten a runner's high... i've ran 5 miles and never gotten the high... i dunno, i guess i've never really gotten in the zone because i've been too busy fighting myself by bitching about running and wondering how soon before i can quit. maybe that kind of thinking keeps you from ever getting the high.

 

[abaez]

I usually get it near the end of the run with maybe a mile left. I'm really tired and I dunno just for some reason my pace and my legs and everything is just in sync and it feels awesome.

 

[SWScorch]

I run fucking 100 miles a week and I get this so-called "Runner's High" once a month if I'm lucky. It's not so much a high and more of just when everything is perfect; you're well-rested, the weather is nice, you're running a nice course, and you just keep going without even noticing that you're running. Most of the time I am fully aware of the fact that I am running and how much work it is though. Read Once a Runner and all will be revealed about the fabled "Runner's High," as popularized and perpetuated by "Jogger's World."

 

[xj0hnx]

Originally posted by: Deadtrees
I had been a lazy bastard that never excercised. That was until I joined the army. Boot-camp experience was just horrible. I was just plain tired most of the time.
After a year, I got used to it but never felt that runner's high. That was until I joined special forces. Fuck, I ran miles and miles of harsh hills. I would've given up if I weren't in the special forces and giving up makes me look like shit. At first, I thought I was pass out. Then runner's high hit me.
Man, it felt like I was walking on the cloud and everything felt damn fresh and good. Since then, running has become the best joy and I started to outrun everyone in the company.

I loved running when I was in the Army. We had a couple platoon sargeants that were running lunatics, we'd be off post by reveille, and not come back until about half an hour before 9AM formation. Runners high was almost a daily occurance, just getting in that zone, and it seems you can run forever, man I miss that.

 

[us3rnotfound]

You have to run hard.

 

[IAteYourMother]

you never get high your first time.

 

[zerocool84]

I don't have a runners body so I'm sure I'll never feel it. The most I could ever run without stopping was 3 miles. I've always been the "big" stocky guy but never fat. I hate running no matter what. Only reason I go now is cus I'm with my dog and streaming some music through my phone.

 

[Sureshot324]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
you never get high your first time.

:laugh:

 

[SlitheryDee]

A couple months ago I ran 10 miles in the afternoon of a 100 degree high temp summer day and thought I was going to die. Is that what a runner's high feels like? Like you're going to die? Seems to me the high would come in somewhere in between starting out and becoming a slowly cooking carcass on the asphalt, but I must have missed it or something.