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    rick++
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    Runner's high definately exists.
    Its not just one single type, but
    several different kinds.
    I'd include the warm afterglow after
    a nice run, the second wind, feeling
    like year can run effortlessly,
    intensification of the senses,
    senerity of being in touch with
    the outdoors, and others.
    I have no opinion whether this has
    anything to do with brain chemistry.
    I also thought its was more due to
    pushing the body at a higher rate.

    These feelings were more pronounced
    the first couple years of running in my
    experience. After several decades running
    is still a pleasure and daily urge,
    but not an infatuation. I tell newbies if
    they can get past the first few weeks of
    aches and pains, they'll discover the pleasure.
    This is true of many sports.

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  2. Doug Freese
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    "rick++" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    Runner's high definately exists.

    For some people. I enjoy running as much as anyone and often do it for
    hours on end especially trails with beautiful views. As for a high, nah,
    highs comes after excess imbibing or in the old days other "stuff".

    -DougF

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  3. Doug Freese
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    "TheBillRodgers" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:56:39 GMT, "Doug Freese" <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    For some people. I enjoy running as much as anyone and often do it for
    hours on end especially trails with beautiful views. As for a high,
    nah,
    highs comes after excess imbibing or in the old days other "stuff".

    Ok you DF, then try NOT running for a month or so, and see how you
    feel. Moron.

    And this would prove what little [censored]? When I start back I'm gonna
    make a big mess in my pants from the high? Speaking of morons, I think
    you're sole owner of the title.

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  4. TheBillRodgers
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    On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:41:40 GMT, "Doug Freese" <[email hidden]>

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    And this would prove what little [censored]? When I start back I'm gonna
    make a big mess in my pants from the high? Speaking of morons, I think
    you're sole owner of the title.

    No DF, it'll prove you will be miserable without the high you claim
    doesn't exist.
    Ok, you're a DF then.

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    TheBillRodgers said:
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    Disagree. I used to know a doctor, also a runner, who believed in
    runner's high. Of course everyone is wired differently. Your mileage
    may vary.

    The reason some get it, and some don't, is because people who've never
    abused themselves with cigs, booze, and drugs, were never "low" to
    begin with. In other words, they are on a natural high all the time,
    and notice little difference after running.

    Good observation. In other words they have no reference point. I've had
    some major battles with depression in the last 25 years but no matter
    how bad things become I'm always able to maintain some kind of running
    program. Shrink said it was the "runners high" that gets me out the
    door.

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    Ok you DF, then try NOT running for a month or so, and see how you
    feel.

    Agreed. But once again everyone is wired differently.

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  6. TheBillRodgers
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    Good observation. In other words they have no reference point.

    That's my opinion. How else can you explain the INTENSE high I get,
    while others claim they feel no difference? For me it is an undeniable
    conclusion. But I smoked three packs a day at my peak, not to mention
    heavy drinking and drugs, and I'd never run a mile in my life, or any
    other sport. I was having terrible angina at 25 from just walking up
    stairs, so if I hadn't taken up running I'm quite certain I'd be dead
    by the time I was 30 or 35.

    Quoted message said:

    I've had
    some major battles with depression in the last 25 years but no matter
    how bad things become I'm always able to maintain some kind of running
    program. Shrink said it was the "runners high" that gets me out the
    door.

    I know a lot of people who have depression (me) if they don't run.You
    aren't alone in that category.

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Ok you DF, then try NOT running for a month or so, and see how you
    feel.

    Agreed. But once again everyone is wired differently.

    Yes, it's possible DF has done so much running over the years, that
    his high would last the rest of his life without any running at all. I
    think once you blowout those arteries, they stay that way (open) for
    years.

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